Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Shopping Finds of the Week

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Today I am here to admit that Aliexpress is still my friend, and here's why:

We've been having trouble finding leotards for our athletes with the sleeve length we prefer. So we ended up buying long sleeve leos, promising to alter them. But paying a seamstress to do the alteration just jacked up the cost too high. It was time to break out our own needle and thread.
The problem was - STRETCH. It's hard to sew in a way that still leaves stretch if you don't really know what you're doing, so we decided to take a different approach. We chose to do the hems with elastic thread. The only elastic I had in the house, though, were too thick for this! And the sewing store is in a different city and I didn't feel like trekking there without knowing if they'd have what I wanted. So - online shopping to the rescue!
After searching a LOT, we found this elastic sewing thread that is priced really low, arrived really quickly, and did the job well! Kudos to my daughter for sewing it herself!


Another super find was these packing organizers! They make it so much easier to stay organized while traveling. I got them for one of my kids and they have gotten so much use! And they are SUPER discounted right now, so you might want to grab them. (I definitely paid at least double!)

And lately, Aliexpress offers to combine your order into one package and ship FAST. And it WORKS!!

So those were my finds that I had to share this week! Hope you found this helpful!


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sunday Night, April 10, 2011

Pesach is fast approaching! I'm so not ready. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the kitchen stuff I have sitting on exposed shelves, or worse, on the counters (or in the case of my large, cast iron Dutch oven, under the kitchen table! Yes, I admit, my kitchen is NOT exactly organized...). I don't have a closet or cabinet to stash them away in, or a basement to store them in, or even a machsan. Sigh. I guess the mirpeset will hold them in boxes. The question is, can I actually pack up some of this stuff in anticipation of the (not sure when) move?

Anyhow, keeping with the theme of cleaning out the freezer, tonight we had:

Veggie burgers (found a package of them from before I banned them from our house) with rolls (found some hanging around the freezer), ketchup, tomato slices, pickles...

Noodles with soy sauce and stir-fried veggies (I found some onions, cabbage, and broccoli stems)

Rice with veggies (found some in the freezer; reheated with some extra water, it was just fine)

Kohlrabi slices