Shred less

Yesterday’s Excellent post was almost like a wrap-up. So now for a regular post, even though it’s a Friday.
We’re all told to shred everything with personal information on it.
EVERYTHING.
But shredding paper has some problems. In our community, you can still recycle it, but you are asked to put it in a paper bag, stapled shut, [...]

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E for Excellent

This week, Loving Green rated my blog E for Excellent! Thanks, LG.
She also posted this:
“Now according to the information I was given – the person who started it all said: ‘I love being a part of the blogging community and part of all the friendships that I’ve formed, so I wanted to give a blog [...]

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The sights of spring

Spring is on its way!
It was a balmy 60-some degrees here in Denver yesterday.
Mr. Cheap refilled the bird feeder and did this:

We’ve seen and heard birds including blue jays, robins, red-winged blackbirds, in addition to the usual chickadees, seagulls, crows and Canada geese. One morning I even saw a red-tailed hawk on a light post [...]

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Weekly Wrap-Up: Water waste to Gen-Y Fi(nance)

First, for those of you outraged at us Coloradans’ not being allowed to harvest our roof water, the Colorado Senate is working on it:
The Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy Committee approved a plan to allow homeowners to collect water that drains off of roofs up to 3,000 square feet so ranchers and farmers could [...]

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Get dirty!

When is the last time you got your feet dirty?
If it was ages ago, chances are you haven’t been to a farm lately.
Do you have a farm near you?
I bet you do.
A company I work with has a client, Culinary School of the Rockies, that has started a program to get future chefs out onto [...]

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Not now, I’m organizing my lightbulb collection

Often, I find myself diving into a big project in my spare time, and all too often, my spare time happens at 8:00 on a Saturday night. While the footloose and fancy free are out tripping the light fantastic, I’m up to my elbows in some dusty project at home.
Thus, I spent one recent, scintillating [...]

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What can you Just.Not.Do?

Happy Valentine’s Day, featuring my non- eco- friendly (but cheap, crafty and personalized) child’s Valentine’s!
Yes, that’s right, it’s a whole stack of pretend flowers made from straws and cellophane tape. Landfill, here we come.
Little Cheap learned how to make these at a Chinese New Year event this weekend, and she loves them. It’s a detailed, [...]

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Tagged and double-tagged!

Oooh, I feel so popular! Wait, that’s not cool, right? I mean it’s sooo annoying to talk about myself. Just kidding, I love to talk about myself, so here we go. Don’t worry, it’s quick!
The rules for this meme are:
~ Link to the person that tagged you. Loving Green AND Naturally Nerds. Thanks, ladies!
~ Post [...]

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Finding meat of one’s own

Yesterday, I posted about our upcoming order of a quarter beef. This purchase is part of our ongoing work to consume only meat that has been “treated kindly,” as Little Cheap puts it. At age 6 (and 5/6ths), she is a dedicated carnivore, but even her meaty preferences have wavered in the face of word [...]

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Execution day is Feb. 19

This year, we’re buying one-quarter of a locally raised, hormone- and antibiotic- and cruelty-free steer.
Beef. From the hoof to our house via a local processor.
We’ll be investing a few hundred dollars (it comes out to around $2 a pound, a great price for beef raised on grass and locally raised organic grain in a non-feedlot [...]

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