My friend Chuck is a lot of things: brash, a bit crazy, an animal lover, a great skateboard instructor and a surprisingly crafty mother effer. He’s always texting me photos of his homemade pickups, or new quilting table, or the sugar skull he needlepointed and framed, or the “murder sheets”

Last night while admiring my roommate’s sexy succulents, she schooled me on the awesomeness of the self-generating plants. Not only are they incredibly low-maintenance and hard-to-kill, but as they grow they sprout ‘˜baby’ plants. These babies can easily be transplanted into separate pots and given away to friends. So there