Posted in DIY, Environment, Freebies, Green Living, Home, Saving, carbon, crafts, fair trade, recycling, thrift, water, tagged baking soda shaker, braless barbie, chopsticks, contact lens case, recycle, reuse, soap holder on July 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In the process of trying to reduce our garbage, I’ve come across several items that I needed and wanted to not buy — and conversely, several items I hated to throw away but couldn’t easily recycle. By reusing these items, necessity meets utility.
Quite some time ago, when I started cleaning everything with baking soda instead [...]
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Posted in DIY, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, carbon, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged compost, composter, egg, eggshells, fish, giveaway, green daily, shrimp on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Green Daily is giving away a $300-value composter package for those who comment with what they would compost by July 2. It’s a random drawing, so I am generously decreasing my own chances by letting all of you in on it! Good luck!
Also, our neighborhood newsletter arrived yesterday with a slightly wackadoodle article about composting. [...]
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Posted in DIY, Fun, Garden, Green Living, recycling, waste, tagged waste, recycling, compost, nitrogen, crunchy chicken, urine, pee, fertilizer on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Crunchy Chicken’s latest brainstorm is a garden potty party on June 21. And that’s not a pitcher of lemonade in the graphic.
Nope. It’s urine.
The good news: You don’t have to drink it!
(Although, supposedly, you could. Which reminds me of the time when I shared an apartment with L’An, about 15 years ago, and we read [...]
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Posted in DIY, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged carbon, compost, nitrogen, recycle, vermicompost, yard waste on May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last week was International Compost Week, and since we missed it here, the pressure’s off and we can just focus on the process of starting a compost pile.
Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter (from vegetable peelings to manure) that provides rich fertilizer for soil (humus — not to be confused with hummus, the [...]
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Posted in DIY, Dealbusters, Eating, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, thrift, tagged baked chips, make your own, tortilla chips on April 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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.
I’m hooked on nachos. I love tortilla chips, in general. [...]
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Posted in DIY, Deals, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged beans, dimmer switch, money, paying more, recession, recycling, Saving, spending on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are three four great articles I stumbled across this week.
This blog post examines the reasons we pay more than we have to, from many perspectives. It’s no crime to pay more — but it is a wise idea to make that decision consciously, rather than falling into constant overspending.
This article isn’t a compendium of [...]
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Last week, days after Easter had passed, Little Cheap and I finally managed to dye some eggs. (They were boiled before Easter - does that count?)
On Thursday morning, the day she was heading to Grandma’s for several days, I busted out the dye at 6:30 a.m. The dyeing just took a couple of minutes, and [...]
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These were my two favorite posts elsewhere this week.
Get Rich Slowly had a guest post from a car reviewer called “What’s Not to Love About a New Car.” I agree with most of her arguments– although I did buy a new car four years ago. (But certainly not at a 10.39% interest rate, like her [...]
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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.
Mr. Cheap and I have a dream bread: The 3-pound [...]
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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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