June 2007

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06.25.07

You Don’t Have to Have Money to be Rich goals, intents and purchases, lifestyle, personal finance, wealth | (9)
Every Monday is Intents and Purchases day at Living Behind the Curve. You don't need more money. All the frugality and personal finance bloggers that teach you the esoteric methods of growing your net worth like a vine of plump, juicy tomatoes are wrong. Living with generic toilet paper and suffering through recycled leftovers just so you can have more money is wrong. Money isn't the point. Save me the spluttering and indignant declarations of how you need money to pay for living, and how we can't retire without money, and whatever else. I know that already, and you do too. I'm ...
06.22.07

11 Simple Kitchen Solutions that Really Work domestic science, eleven things, frugality, gadgets, simplicity, slow cooker | (14)
Every Friday is 11 Things day at Living Behind the Curve. People who write infomercials are convinced that women are morons. They have to be. How else could they build marketing campaigns built on a foundation concept that, for example, millions of people are wasting untold hours bewildered by a complicated, malfunctioning pair of scissors? Most of this junk is either for the kitchen or for cleaning, and therefore marketed directly to women, and I frankly find it infuriating that an entire industry is built on the asinine assumption that women are too incompetent to do "women's work". Rampaging sexism aside, there ...
06.21.07

Escaping the Email Burden: A Confession email bankruptcy, goat-free simplicity, lifestyle, simplicity, technology | (0)
Every Thursday is Goat-Free Simplicity day at Living Behind the Curve. I was a geek anomaly – the one person among my peers that always had an empty Inbox. Every time someone remarked freeing it must be, I shivered. I was slave to my folders. Every time I joined a new list, or made a new contact, I created a new filter, a new label. Eventually, those folders became so involved and cluttered that I couldn't find anything, much less know what to do with it when I did. This nasty habit also ...
06.20.07

Eat Your Heart Out, Uncle Ben domestic science, recipes | (3)
Every Wednesday is Domestic Science day at Living Behind the Curve. Either I'm the last person to learn how to do this, or it's a huge secret about to bust wide open all over the interwebs: it's almost impossible to overcook rice in the microwave. No, really. Here's how: 500g (about 4 cups) white or basmati rice, rinsed 3 cups of water salt to taste butter to taste (optional) 1. Rinse your rice. Toss it in a strainer and run the rice under some water until it runs clear. Shake it around a little, to make sure everything gets nice and soggy. 2. Combine all the ...
06.19.07

Just Some Oak and Some Pine and a Handful of Norsemen frugality, kitchen sink, lifestyle | (4)
!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Every Tuesday is Kitchen Sink day at Living Behind the Curve. Ah, IKEA. Immortalized in song by Jonathan Coulton, parodied on the Simpsons, and hacked l33tly by people the world over. It has a place in the hearts of pop-culture junkies worldwide, but IKEA's furniture has a bad rap. I've read several articles that recommend going to "real furniture stores" instead of IKEA. I think this stems from the fact that we've all owned at least one piece of cheap furniture made out of particle board ...

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