DIY

16 Nov 2010

Spruce Up Your Ag Skills at the Mills Community Garden

I started out on BrokeAssStuart.com as the crunchy, garden-loving, East Bay correspondent and it’s about time I got back to my roots. Pun! If you remember, I told you last year how to set up a garden for FREE (Part I & II). Now I’m coming at you with some new gardening opportunities. Mills

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10 Nov 2010

DIY: Mini Notepads

Even in these times of crazy technological advancements and rapid development, you can still find yourself needing just a pen and a piece of paper. There may be an app for freakin’ everything under the sun, but seriously ‘“ paper is a system that’s worked for thousands (and thousands) of

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03 Nov 2010

DIY: Beer Can Brilliance

Now that Halloween is over and done with, we’ve moved on to cringing over Christmas. Displays are going up right and left encouraging us to be good consumers. But who has the money to shop for all your loved ones, roommates, acquaintances, former lovers and drinking pals? No one we

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01 Nov 2010

How to Have an Amazing Dia de los Muertos

So maybe your Halloween sucked.  Maybe you spent all day dressing up to find that the one dude or dudette you planned on going home with was more into the sexy nun than you.  Or maybe no one got the obscure comic book reference for your costume but members of

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27 Oct 2010

DIY: Halloween Candy Bark in Doll Serving Dish

If you’ve been anywhere near Haight Street, you know it’s nearly Halloween. Costume shoppers were out in full force this past weekend, elbowing through the Wasteland, eyeballing possibilities at Held Over. The best party of the year is only days away and in between turning this vinyl devil costume into

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20 Oct 2010

DIY: Halloween Decorations

It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween. Riding through my neighborhood the other day, I started to see various Halloween decorations appearing on houses: a few ghosts hanging from nooses here, some spider webs and bats there. It’s kinda funny, no matter how old I get, seeing Halloween decorations

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13 Oct 2010

DIY: Cereal Boxes

Cereal is as important to a broke-ass as ramen noodles. It has zero prep time and requires only two items which can usually be purchased at any corner store. Plus, it’s tasty and has vitamins and calcium and all that. Hell, I’d be having some myself, RIGHT NOW, if I

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11 Oct 2010

DIY: Tried and True Uses for Cheap Vodka

Cheap vodka has a lot of uses. It can wipe your memory clean, keep you warm on cold nights, and make most experiences exponentially more interesting than they would have been. Is it coincidence that Vladimir Vodka is not only the top selling liquor in West Virginia and also crucial

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