For the month of October, we’re going to augment our usual Houshold Hints of the Day with a Halloween tip of the day (or two), to give you costume and party planning ideas we’ve acquired from clients while working here at Black Tie Cleaning. We highly encourage everyone to make their own Halloween costumes, saving [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 29th, 2009
Folding tee shirts is really easy if you make yourself a folding board, or somehow get your hands on an official one from The Gap or some other retailer. The boards are roughly the size of an 8.5 x 11 pad of paper…so if you have one of those around the house, you can totally [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 28th, 2009
Trying to lose weight but running out of creative things to make for lunch or breakfast? Try giving cottage cheese a starring role in at least one meal a day…suping it up with various fruits and vegetables to make it more interesting. Whole, large curd cottage cheese is cheap (about $3 for a large tub [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 26th, 2009
It might sound crazy to tell you to wash your garbage before you throw it out, but that’s only because it is sort of crazy, in a Martha Stewart meets Joan Crawford by way of being mad at the dirt sort of way. But, think about it. You’ve just finished a Yoplait thick and [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 25th 2009
There is more than a month until Halloween, people. Which means there is no reason you have to settle for anything less than originality and perfection with so much time to plan ahead. The cheap, plastic-wrapped, mass-produced costumes are already on the shelves of drug stores and bargain basement emporiums. You know the ones. [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 24th, 2009
Can regular people afford to shop at Whole Foods on a regular basis? That’s a question we hear a lot…with people overwhelmingly happy with Whole Foods and the quality there, but afraid they’ll break their budget by making it a regular shopping experience. But most people are surprised to learn they can walk out [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 23rd 2009
Have you realized how complicated buying eggs has become these days, with all the new terms and organic options and the whatnot? Well, the Chicago Tribune did (thank God!) and came up with a great article all about eggs. More than you ever wanted or needed to know about eggs, in fact. It’s a [...]
Yabba Dabba Don’t
Black Tie Cleaning offers personal shopping to our clients, where we keep track of your sizes and things that you like and are always on the lookout for great deals and new clothes for you. We not only launder and dryclean your wardrobes, but also can take the initiative to rethink what you’re [...]
New 100% organic restaurant named Sprout opening up in Chicago
This is very exciting — the Chicago Tribune is reporting that a new 100% organic restaurant will be opening up here in Chicago on October 3rd…called Sprout, it’s the dream project of a Bosnian Chef named Satko Ibrahimovic. We try using organic alternatives to traditional chemical cleaning products whenever possible…and try shopping for organic [...]
