Writes about low-waste household goods, food storage and the price per use behind everyday purchases.
A purchase made in ninety seconds and a purchase made after two weeks often end in the same object. Sometimes one of them ends in no object at all, and...
A solid oak table for forty dollars is either the best purchase of the year or a source of woodworm in your dining room. The difference is fifteen minutes of...
A bag of carrots in the fridge drawer goes soft in ten days. The same carrots in a cool dark cupboard, in a paper bag, last a month. The fridge...
Two bottles sit side by side, one at twice the price of the other, and both claim sixty washes. One of them is telling the truth and the other is...
A standard bottle of surface cleaner is about ninety percent water. You pay for that water, you carry it home, and then you add more water at the sink. A...
A pantry built for a leisurely Sunday looks impressive and fails on Wednesday. A pantry built for the worst week you actually have looks sparse and feeds you every night....
An extended warranty on a two hundred dollar appliance costs forty dollars and covers almost nothing. The same policy on a washing machine costs a tenth of the purchase price...
A sock with a hole in the heel gets thrown away in about four seconds. Darning it takes fifteen minutes and produces a repair that outlasts the original fabric. The...
A yogurt three days past its best before date gets thrown away in most kitchens and eaten without complaint in mine. Two labels that look similar mean completely different things,...
A litre of milk in a plastic bottle costs about a dollar twenty. The same litre in a returnable glass bottle costs two dollars plus a deposit. The deposit is...