Earlier this week, Little Cheap and I hit up the Savers location that was so good to us about a year ago. At that time, we found some paddock boots that Little Cheap needed for riding classes for $5.99, a great toy (a horse that walks for $2) and some other things too.
No paddock boots [...]
Archive for July, 2008
It’s not easy remodeling green AND cheap – my $800 bathroom redo
Posted in Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, thrift, tagged bathroom, cabinets, faucet, Home, plumbing, redecorate, renovation, vanity on July 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve done cosmetic surgery on our bathroom. Our house has two bedrooms and one bathroom on the main level. When we moved in three years ago, a previous owner had redone the bathroom with a pedestal sink and some cheap melamine cabinets.
The decor included features like purple paint (almost [...]
Big beets, baby beans – Garden growth
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, food, tagged beans, beets, butternut, cucumbers, cukes, Garden, garden update, Growing Challenge, potato, squash, tomato on July 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Things are growing beautifully in our garden, despite a heat wave that has us thisclose to breaking the record. (Denver’s record is 15 days of highs over 90 degrees. Barring unforeseen cooling, we’ll tie the record on Wednesday, break it on Thursday and blow it out of the water sometime over the next few weeks.) [...]
Cutting junk mail
Posted in Environment, carbon, paper, recycling, waste, tagged Catalog Choice, GreenDimes, junk mail on July 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
As far in the past as last Christmas, I had a subscription to GreenDimes on my wish list. GreenDimes is a company that lets you sign up, either for free or for a fee, depending on the services you want to receive, to eliminate your junk mail.
With GreenDimes, you start out by choosing the service [...]
How vacation busted my green chops
Posted in Eco-quandary, Environment, Travel, carbon, waste, tagged carbon, Travel, vacation, waste on July 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
At the beginning of this month, my family went on vacation. Took off across the country to Virginia to visit some relatives we haven’t seen in several years. Unfortunately, our vacation turned out to be one of the least green things we’ve done in quite some time.
The travel carbon
First and foremost, of course, were the [...]
Hand coffee grinder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee mill grinder hand crank on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At our local antique shop (which is more like a thrift store in terms of quality and price), we found this cutie on Saturday.
The shop also had a couple of more elegant looking oak versions of the hand-held coffee mill, but we’ve got some Germanic background in our household, so we are suckers for the [...]
Tomatoes & okra & beans – garden update
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged garden squash okra tomatoes peanuts beans potatoes on July 21, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s been hot, hot, hot and dry, dry, dry this week. Temperatures have been over 90F daily and we’ve had just a few drops of rain one day. Nevertheless, the garden soldiers on.
On Sunday, I harvested our first red Juliet tomato — a very early harvest. The plant has set quite a bit of green [...]
Re-use jeans, lazy green – Friday wrap
Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, crafts, recycling, tagged essay, green, jeans on July 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Great ways to re-use jeans
Tipnut this week posted links to things to do with old jeans, and the timing couldn’t be better. The other day, I was going through my fabric bin, looking for material to make a Colonial dress for Little Cheap, and she said,
Are those old JEANS? Why do you have pants in [...]
Clamshells can’t recycle
Posted in Green Living, carbon, crafts, food, plastic, recycling, tagged #1, #6, clamshell, plastic, recycle on July 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The other day I received this question:
Do you have a line on somewhere, someone, who will recycle those clear plastic clamshells that blueberries and strawberries and the like come in at the grocery store? I figured if anyone knew, it’d be you! O they’re piling up…
As I responded at the time, I have to confess [...]
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