Mary Fioratti

People who work a crossword puzzle and write in the squares with pencil are cheating. I don’t trust anyone who uses a pencil. I bet I don’t even have a single pencil in my house. What would I possibly need one for? I have an assortment of pens and have no use for pencils at [...]

I keep seeing all these ads for free cell phones. there must be a catch. How can some people be getting free phones but other people have to pay, like $300, for their phones? And I have to pay $50 a month but other people get it for free? What’s up with that?

Some of the old photographs I have kept in a box in my basement ended up getting wet when I had that leak from the fireplace. I had no idea the water was running down the wall and going down into the basement. When I was looking for holiday boxes I found the puddles and [...]

I hate the waste and expense of paper towels. But now there is Skoy, a biodegradable cloth that dries quickly, and if you wet and nuke it regularly (it will be hot, so be careful), it won’t turn into a party place for countertop bacteria. One cloth is supposed to outlast 15 rolls rolls of [...]

Back when I was a kid, laundry day was a big deal. We had to round up all the dirty clothes from our bedrooms, gather up all the towels and wash clothes from the bathroom, and take all the sheets and pillowcases off the beds. Then we spent pretty much the entire day washing all [...]