If I had to pick just two totally free things I love about San Francisco they’d probably be: an abundance of quirky historical stories and the abundance of urban hikes with million-dollar views. Hiking Land’s End is a favorite because you can check out cool stuff like the Cliff House,

Tissue paper crafts suck! There, I said it. I’m even going to go out on a limb here and say you probably agree with me. We both know that brightly colored flimsy filmy paper stuff is the center point of craft suckitude ‘“ it makes crafts that only a third

NYC’s wintery weather is reminding me a lot of Ithaca where I went to school. Except our snow will melt sometime before April and my nosehairs don’t freeze upon leaving my apartment. Because its life is so much shorter, I very rarely hate the snow in NYC. Sure, I curse

Egg cartons, much like print, socks and cereal boxes, are DIY-gold because they can be almost endlessly repurposed. Not only are they aces for holding and organizing any tiny bits you have (jewlrey, beads, bolts and nuts) into an impromptu, and portable, case but they’re green so they can also

Remember when your mom or some other old, decrepit person would talk to you about drugs, and be like, “is that HASHISH I smell??” And you would think carefully, trying to find the right answer and turning over the word “hashish” in your mind, which is a funny word, though

File cabinets are an unfortunate fact of life: by the time you hit your mid-twenties you’ve accumulated a sizable portion of your life on paper. From transcripts to manuscripts, recipes to medical records, vehicle registrations to credit card statements, that shit can’t just sit in a corner of your closet.

This Saturday, January 9, 2011 marks the 10th annual No Pants Subway Ride in New York. If you remember, our very own Spendthrift Scribe posted the event last year. Well, now San Franciscans can join in the fun, and based on how many inexpicably pantsless people I’ve seen in SF,

I have issues with my kitchen; there’s no surface space, not enough cabinet space and most of my dishes are chipped castoffs. However, I’ve been looking at a few DIY-improvements to class up the joint and this one caught my eye: It’s an easy way to glance at a recipe,