Posted in Children, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, tagged blog, environmental, Garden, lemon, meyer lemon, potatoes, Q&A, questions, recycling on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I got so many great questions from readers for my one-year anniversary — not to mention all the sweet comments. Thank YOU all for reading and making this blog so much fun. Your being here helps motivate me to keep on keepin’ on — even though things feel a little dark at times.
Here is the [...]
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Posted in Children, Deals, Saving, Shopping, money, tagged Deals, savings, bank, ipod, shuffle, amex, american express cash, upromise, college on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We haven’t had a deal of the week in a long time! But there are a few deals out there too good to pass up.
It’s spring clearance season. If you need winter items (stock up for next year!) check out these great bargain sites: Land’s End, LL Bean, Campmor and Sierra Trading Post. You can [...]
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Posted in Children, Environment, Green Living, Home, energy, paper, recycling, waste, tagged air conditioning, art, Children, computer, energy, lights, paper, power, savings on June 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I got so many great questions from readers for my one-year anniversary last week - not to mention all the sweet comments. Thank YOU all for reading and making this blog so much fun. Your being here helps motivate me to keep on keepin’ on — even though things feel a little dark at times [...]
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Posted in Children, Fun, Green Living, Shopping, thrift, waste, tagged bags, Children, ducks, Green Living, green project, kids, play, recycling, reuse, Shopping on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“This bag does not come from my store,” the “shopkeeper” said. “I use all bags that I’ve gotten from other places. I’m doing the ‘green project’ this year.”
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Posted in Buy Nothing Challenge, Children, Home, Saving, Shopping, Travel, money, thrift, tagged air travel, buying, consumerism, field trip, planning on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s nearly the end of April and I’m still hanging in there with my attempt at Buy Nothing month.
I missed the Sunday confession because I was out of town, but last week I bought … uh … plane tickets. But this is the previously planned graduation-celebration trip.
Other than that, I didn’t buy much. We visited [...]
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Posted in Children, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, crafts, food, paper, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged earth day, Garden, growing, newspaper pots, planting, seeds on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy Earth Day! It was a gorgeous day here in Denver.
I helped with a project this afternoon for my daughter’s Daisy Scout troop, planting bean seeds in newspaper pots.
If you haven’t ever made these seedling pots, they are a great way to start seeds. They recycle newspaper, which adds a carbon (dry) aspect to your [...]
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As I mentioned earlier today, I signed on for Crunchy Chicken’s Buy Nothing Challenge this month. I will try to write a short post every day or two recording how it’s going.
I don’t believe I’ll take up buying nothing for the long haul. But I am curious to see how raising my consciousness about what [...]
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This Monday series checks out whether something that sounds like a good deal — or takes a bit of extra work — is a good deal. We’ll look at cost and benefit — with everything filtered through my individual experience. Please chime in with your take.
Last Friday was a beautiful day, and Little Cheap and [...]
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Today is my daughter’s 7th birthday. Happy birthday, Little Cheap!
We had her party on Saturday. This year, after watching several episodes of Orangutan Island and talking about global warming at school and home, she decided her birthday party would be a fund-raiser for orangutan conservation. Instead of gifts, she would collect donations for orangutan conservation [...]
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We usually have a pretty big shopping list around our house for Christmas. We have two sets of parents with whom we really don’t exchange gifts, and two sets with whom we do. We have five siblings/spouses and two nieces, a couple of our daughter’s good friends, two sets of grandparents, and this year, four [...]
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