On the Web: MSN Autos released its annual Top 10 of the most fuel-efficient vehicles. No surprise: The Prius ranked No. 1. See the rest of the list here.
On the shelves: Part of our butternut squash crop. All told, we wound up with 15 squash. Their average weight is about 8 lbs. This has [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Weekly Wrap-Up: Best cars and last of the red-hot ‘maters
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living on October 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Eco-quandary: Staying warm and saving energy
Posted in Eco-quandary, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, energy, money on October 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Last weekend, we in Denver had our first snow of the season. Sunday and Monday were downright chilly (although Saturday was in the 70s, and we’re expected to get there again today).
Our home is a 1950 brick bungalow-style. Despite new windows and a hearty layer of insulation in the attic, that old brick gets very [...]
Blog Action Day: Save Oil AND Money With Driving Techniques
Posted in Blog Action Day, Environment, Green Living, Saving, money, tagged Blog Action Day, driving, save gas on October 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s Blog Action Day – a day for bloggers all over the Net to focus on environmental topics. And with oil hitting a record high of more than $86 per barrel today, let’s talk about saving gas.
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. In the meantime, I wrote an [...]
Weekly Wrap-Up: Fair Trade and Skyscraper Farming
Posted in Environment, Green Living, fair trade, money on October 12, 2007 | Comments Off
Vertical farming – For $50 a pound, a skyscraper garden could feed 50,000 people year round. Do you buy it?
October is Fair Trade Month, and Money & Values has suggestions on ways to make your trade fair.
Give yourself credit: Do you have life insurance?
Posted in Credit, Financial planning, Insurance, money on October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Remember that sentence you read way back when in that one financial planning book about being prepared for contingencies … and how you promised to go buy life insurance that minute?
And how then you went to a movie and — oh, was that eight years ago already?
This past week, the father of an acquaintance of [...]
Econ-quandary: How rich are you?
Posted in money on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you’re reading this in the U.S. (or Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, where most of my readers come from), chances are you’re really rich. To find out the specifics, visit the Global Rich List site, which will tell you how you rank among the world’s wealthiest people.
Apparently, our household is in the top 1 [...]
Weekly wrap-up: Far away Disney and close-to-home farms
Posted in Eating, Environment, Travel on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Save on going to Disney World: Free Money Finance did a lengthy (for him, not for me ) post about this on Wednesday. I especially loved the ParkSleepFly tip – although we aren’t far from our local airport, I’m going to file that away for return trip options.
The Motley Fool published a short piece on [...]
Deal of the Week: Jamba Juice BOGO coupon is back
Posted in Deals, Eating, Freebies on October 3, 2007 | Comments Off
I love the Acai smoothie, so I’m very excited. Little Cheap is a smoothie lover, too, so we will be hitting Jamba Juice for a lunch smoothie this weekend while Mr. Cheap is stuck in class all day!
http://www.jambafunctionals.com/bogo/coupon.aspx
Eco-quandary: Wash dishes by hand or with dishwasher?
Posted in Eco-quandary, Environment, Green Living, Home, money, water on October 2, 2007 | 11 Comments »
This post explores a difficult topic for my lazy side aspects that appreciate modern conveniences. In my old house, when we bought a secondhand portable dishwasher, I was the woman lounging on the sofa, sighing in bliss, “I am knitting and watching TV while that wonderful machine is washing the dishes!” My current home came [...]
Turn that burner off
Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living on October 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Green as a Thistle last week mentioned the idea of boiling water, adding dry pasta, covering the pot and turning it off for 20 minutes. One of her readers said this is a common method to cook pasta in Italy (where they oughtta know).
I tried it on Friday. Verdict? 20 minutes was a tad [...]
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