Blog: Pam's Pennypinching With STYLE

The Daily Grind + Allergies

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Ugh! My allergies have been bothering me, as the tree pollen count is in the red zone (i.e., BAD) according to Claritin's email pollen chart...If you are interested read the following, otherwise SKIP to the next paragraph!) [I am taking Zyrtec (which I had stocked up on with a $4 coupon before the rains stopped, knowing the pollens would follow...) + my homeopathic A. Vogel Pollinosan + nettle tincture + eyedrops (Alaway + Simulsan allergy drops) - and it all does make it go away. Also using the air cleaner(s). (Alas, I have run out of my Bioallers TREE tincture - only have grass, alas...I'll have to find some.) That's why I schlepp all that stuff WITH me, becaz if caught without it, I am sub-human.

Ok that's boring - What else? Finishing my furry eyelash yarn thing - maybe I will make it a capelet....Eyelash yarn + yarn does have a furry effect. Would be nice in black or white for a prom dress stole...Mine is green + turquoise...I think the knitting in front of TV is keeping me from night eating - but it does tire the fingers...Next project ANOTHER shawl with all my leftover yarn, etc., I think. Luckily I am working thru the yarn stash I got from dollar stores & thrift shops. Will have to look for MORE.

Other than that - quiet - went to shrinky dink - (therapy) - I go to low-cost Jungean counseling - For my $, the Jungeans are the best, esp. for artistes like me....

Did my hair yesterday with my combos of blonde + red shampoos & conditioners after having applied hydrogen peroxide to the new growth at the part & around my face...Not bad.

They talk about the death of the newspaper - but I can't read an electronic device in the TUB, can I? Or while eating breakfast when it's subject to smears of jam and so on? And no one wants to steal it most of the time, either....Have they thought about THAT?

I like combos of low & hi tech devices - I love blogging here - but I also have notebooks & a written calendar & address book...They all back up each other.

By the way, the pink pen that Mark found for sale at Ofc. Depot is turning out to be perfect becaz of the unusual color, I can always tell which pen is MINE.

Did you know that sometimes luggagey pieces can serve as sturdy purses? Years ago I found myself buying a drawstring bag in the luggage dept, because it was well made and affordable. Recently hubby bought me what in its first life had been a computer case tote - but which for me was a nice long handbag. I was using it over the wkend & a lady actually stopped me on the stree asking me where I had gotten it! And it had been on sale at an ofc. store and a good deal. (Oh, & I over the wkend I bought some fancy tassels at the thrift shop and put them on my plain khaki nylon satchel to spiff it up...)

That's a thrifty tip - buy things where they are more or less generic and don't have the overhead costs of fashion changes. So if safari is in - think of checking out Military Surplus stores - or get a waiter's jacket where they sell uniforms, and so on. They will be less expensive and much better made, too.

I myself like folksy pieces of clothing and pick them up whenever I come across one I like - they go in and out of style - but never totally OUT, I find. Boho dressing is getting to be a staple in fashion. (Just got a hippy skirt at Goodwill for $1.)

For everything else - it's the daily grind - have to work up some music for a memorial Sat., which I find I am putting off. Audition for a webisode Thurs. Listening to the recording of our gig(s) last wkend at the Deer Lodge & we sound pretty darn good! Twittering and microblogging on zannel.com (both under the monicker of pamphyila.) Still can't upload pics from my camera phone. Arg.

Reading & commenting on oher frugal blogs. Do people really think we are funny to cut open plastic bottles to get the last bit of lotion/shampoo and so on? There is always a few more applications IN there - so why throw it away? I am still coaxing out the ends of a very nice lotion I thought was finished - by standing it on its head and opening it up and then banging on it like a bottle of ketchup! Bet I will have an extra week out of it before I am thru.

Have I mentioned that if you cut open samples of handcreme and so on from the opposite end where it's easy to cut - you should then seal it up again with a bobby pin or paperclip so it won't all dry out before you finish the last drop. I usually fold the open end over once and then clip.

Oh, and I find I am using another plastic CD spindle on a bathroom shelf to hang my plastic headbands with the elastic closings on....You could even glue it to the wall to hang things that aren't so heavy....and the multiple roll toilet paper holder I concocted out of a paper towel stand is working fine & it saves just that much more room in our crowded apt. by stacking the rolls vertically.

The beat goes on....and how are you all doing?

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