One email, when there's something worth sending.
No schedule. No funnel. No filler.
I'm not going to promise you a weekly letter, because some weeks my body has other plans and I'd rather not start by telling you something that won't hold.
What I will tell you is what arrives when it does. A verdict on something I've actually used. Progress on the two-flat, including the parts that go wrong. Occasionally the part nobody films. If I have nothing worth your attention, you don't hear from me, and that is the whole arrangement.
Yours when you subscribe.
Nothing You Need Has to Be Ugly
How I decide what to buy, and where I actually find it. It isn't a shopping list. Shopping lists go out of date, and most of them were written by people who never used the thing.
- Why almost everything in this category is ugly, and why that was a decision rather than a constraint.
- The five questions I run on an object before it comes into my house.
- Where these things are actually sold, which is usually not the medical aisle.
- What to do when you rent and can't drill a hole in anything.
- The running list of things I went looking for and couldn't find at all.
Three kinds of thing.
A verdict
Something I own and use. What it solves, what's wrong with it, what it cost, and whether I'd buy it again.
The two-flat
A 1900s building I'm turning into a house in phases, while living in it. The decisions, the budget, and the parts that go wrong.
The part nobody films
The bad week. The appointment. The thing I couldn't do. No links in these, ever. That's the point of them.
What I won't do with your address.
- No affiliate links in the emails. If I recommend something, the link lives on the site where the full verdict is.
- No sponsored sends. Nobody pays to appear in your inbox.
- No automated sequence pretending to be a letter from me.
- No selling, renting or sharing your address. Not to anyone, for any reason.
- Unsubscribing takes one click and I won't take it personally.