August 2012 - The Outlier Model

Recipe Idea: Home-Made Pizza

Home made pizza, pizza lover, make your own pizza, pizza crust

Brian / August 29th, 2012 / 24 Comments

Having the most frugal grocery budget in the world isn’t going to help you and if you can’t put together at least a few healthy, tasty, and cheap eats! Every month, The Outlier Model features a cheap recipe idea, along with the cost breakdown. Pizza is the ultimate comfort food. Ever since I was a kid, my Mom used to make pizza on Friday nights, with a home-made crust from the bread maker....

Posted in: Recipes Tagged with: cheap comfort food, dough, how to make pizza, pizza, pizza dough, pizza dough recipe

My Sony Walkman MP3

Sony Walkman MP3, mp3 player, listen to songs, walkman

CF / August 27th, 2012 / 20 Comments

Here’s my MP3 player. Uh-huh… Are you all done laughing now? My Sony Walkman is about three or four or five years old. (I don’t even remember!) I received it as a Christmas present after my previous Sony Walkman (a tube model that did not even have a picture screen) died. It holds 4 gigabytes of music and in addition to providing hours of entertainment, has suffered dents...

Posted in: Minimalism and Frugality, Philosophy Tagged with: ipod, mp3, music, smartphone, Sony, walkman

Updates: August 19 – 25

Brian / August 25th, 2012 / 6 Comments

Well, this week marked the very FIRST contest that The Outlier Model has run! We’ve had numerous entries thus far, with no clear consensus on what the mystery seedling is. There is still plenty of time to enter the contest – we won’t be drawing a winner until we positively ID the plant! To clarify, you CAN guess the same thing as another commenter – we’ll be drawing the...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: charity, contest, geocaching, loans, mystery plant, pet insurance, stop procrastinating

Contest: ID this plant!

CF / August 24th, 2012 / 16 Comments

This contest is now closed – thanks for entering! Congratulations to Ying for correctly guessing “Collard Greens” via Twitter! Here’s another Friday quickie for you guys: Help us ID this plant! We have a community garden plot which occasionally gets seedling donations. We received this mysterious plant recently in an unlabelled pot! I have a pretty good idea of what it is,...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: community garden, contest, gardening, winter plant identification