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At Make-Do Mondays, we discuss how we’re simplifying, downsizing, repurposing, buying used, and using what we’ve got.It’s a carnival celebrating creative problem-solving, contentment, patience and ingenuity. To participate, share your own make-do solution in the comments or write up a Make-Do Mondays post at your blog, then return here to link via Mr. Linky. Enjoy others’ ideas by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking on people’s names.Here’s a mini-tutorial on Mr. Linky:
Click on the icon and a separate page will pop up. Type in your blog name and paste in the url of your new Make-Do Mondays post. Click enter and it should be live. If it doesn’t work, just include the link in the comments.
To visit people’s posts or check that yours worked, click on Mr. Linky and when the page comes up, click on a name. You should be taken right to the page provided.
Make-Do Mondays Participants
- Sewing Chick (Menu Plan, gray paint, and tolerating the ugly fan)
- Like Mother, Like Daughter (Shelf–to paint, or not to paint)
- Rancho Ruperto (Free Cosmos)
- Mama Long (T-Shirt Refashion)
- Sunnydaytodaymama (rosewater)
- Sunnydaytodaymama (mud)
- ’50s Housewife (Iced Coffee)
- Feels Like Home (Creamy Spinach Doodles)
- Life Together (Make-Do Composter)
- CherieZ Recipes (Ozark Pudding)
Make-Do Mondays with AnnI’m back among the Internets after a week of camping (see me waving and shouting “Hi! Good to see you again, friends!”? See me dumping sand out of my shoes and duffel bag? See me tackling at least four mountains of laundry?).If there were a continuum of campers, where you would find on one end snowbirds in their giant RVs decked out with oak cabinets and parquet flooring, and on the other end would be Boy Scouts building a lean-to shelter out of branches, I suppose we’re in the middle.We own a pop-up, which gets us up off the ground, and we use a few electric appliances to make life easier. Our goal is not to make all our food in a dutch oven over an open fire; we camp to save enough money so that we can visit places of interest. Because our camping motive is primarily to secure inexpensive lodging, we don’t feel bad about bringing along things to make life at the campsite easier, like the electric griddle for pancakes and a hotpot to heat water.Yet, even with our luxury items, I think of campsite coffee preparations as making-do.The Belgian Wonder brought along some Starbucks coffee, so he certainly wasn’t making-do with a cheap instant brand, no sir.Instead, to make a small thermos of morning coffee, he used a plastic drip gadget that sits atop a coffee mug or other appropriate container.I apologize in advance for the breakfast clutter we’ve captured on film. All the cereal boxes and used bowls are unattractively on display. Clearly we weren’t the tidiest campers who ever drove a stake into the sand.But I thought you might enjoy seeing the gadget at work. It’s very simple. He measures out what he thinks will be the right amount of grounds into the small filter (getting the right strength is the trickiest part, he says), which sits in the plastic piece, then pours very hot water over the top and lets it drip.Several people have recommended that he take along a French press instead, but he prefers this.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-_owGu1lps]How do you make do?
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I love camping!!
Fortunately neither of us drinks coffee…but if we did, we would come to your site and drink yours!
I think it’s hilarious that you have an electric kettle! I’ve caved in the air mattress department. My husband thinks this is the last word in anti-camping, but I just can’t sleep on the ground — I just CAN’T GET ANY SLEEP!!
Oh – there is nothing as bonding as family camping, except for campfire coffee. YUM!
Mr. Linky isn’t working for me – no pic, no page comes up when I click the space where the pic should be. Here’s my post: http://mamalong.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/t-shirt-refashion/
Mr Linky was here and then he went again. My Make-Do Monday links this week are:
Mud
Rosewater
Love the coffee gadget and glad you had a good time. Welcome back 🙂
My Make Do Monday is about coffee too. 🙂
HI!! I love your blog!!! Thank you for visiting mine. I love your question, and I’m going to try to do it next. Just waiting for a good hair day…
We don’t drink coffee either and to tell the truth, I really don’t know how to make a good pot. I have used a coffee maker and followed directions, but I don’t know if it was good.
Your camping coffee method is great. Simple, direct and if your Hubby does it, it has to taste wonderful. Cleanup must be simple as well.
Our family has gone the plain tent method, to a motorhome (a 1976 very old leaky roof one) to a tent trailer (a 1972′ comfortable again leaky roof problems) to this year of a 1987 24′ travel trailer. It is is awesome condition for its age and we have been assured that there are no known roof leaks! I love cooking outside over the fire/coals. So all I need is a comfortable place to sleep. The potty is appreciated, but not a necessity for me. I loved our tent trailer. I am happy for the hard sides this year as I hope to take the kids out camping and Hubby won’t always be with us and I think I will feel more safe and secure with the hard sides.
Thanks Ann, I always love to hear how things are going with you. I love your tips, make-do’s and Foods.
Shari
I love the coffee drip/filter combo. My dad always drank coffee and my mom always drank tea. Growing up, we never had a coffee maker; my dad used that drip/filter gadget every single morning, and still does. I guess he just prefers simplicity. I inherited my mom’s love for tea, and married a tea-drinker, but we keep one of those drip gadgets and a bunch of filters on hand for when we have guests who enjoy coffee. That way, we can provide for our guests but don’t have to pay a lot of money for an extra gadget, or find a place in our kitchen to keep it.
Pretty cool post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your posts.
Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!