Posted in Environment, Fun, Garden, Green Living, crafts, tagged crunchy chicken, solar, urine, theramin, picnic, party on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
GreenPa wants to start a tradition of a “whole planet picnic” - a waste-free free-for-all on the solstice. That would be today … or more loosely, this weekend. So if you don’t have plans, get those phones ringing! I wish I were on top of this this year … maybe next year.
Don’t forget, Saturday is [...]
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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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Frugal Dad today posted a call for participants for the show “Wife Swap.” You get $20,000 for torturing your family — but some people are into that!
They are especially looking for families into clipping coupons.
Potential families can live anywhere in the United States, but we ask that families applying for the show consist of two [...]
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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 Environment, Fun, Travel, carbon, energy, tagged vacation, Travel, carbon offsets, flying, public transit on April 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This year, I’m taking a vacation.
Well, to be honest, I’m taking a few.
I know flying isn’t low impact, by any means, and until last week, I hadn’t been in a plane since May 2004. However, I hadn’t seen my dad in a year and a half, and he lives a 14-hour drive away. Little Cheap [...]
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Next week is TV Turnoff Week! You are challenged to make it all week without the boob tube. For an excellent rundown, see Verda Vivo’s blog on Ten Ways to Unplug Yourself.
Now, come clean:
Poll: How much TV do you watch?
Statistically average-8 hours/day
An hour a night for favorite shows
Sports junky - all day, all weekend
It’s my [...]
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Posted in Buy Nothing Challenge, Environment, Fun, Green Living, Hobbies, Saving, Shopping, local, money, recycling, thrift, waste, wool, tagged buy nothing, car repair, earth day, frugality, knitting, re-use, Shopping, thrift, toaster on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s April 16, so I’m more than halfway through my Buy Nothing Challenge with Crunchy Chicken.
Last week
Last week started out pretty well. The only non-necessary thing I bought was a funny birthday card for my sister. I also bought a latte at Starbucks, but it made me nauseous and I complained, so coupons are on [...]
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Posted in Environment, Fun, Green Living, Travel, money, thrift, tagged life, spending, splurge, vacation on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Easy, eco-friendly scrub-stuff! Using toothpaste and baking soda! However, word to the wise: I would think this would be very, very abrasive, so use it gently and consider a backup plan to refinish the surface afterward. And not that white boards are eco-friendly, but their tip to clean off permanent marker is a keeper, if [...]
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Posted in Fun, tagged Fun, six-word-memoir on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Ok … first I owe an apology to Knit-Write, who tagged me for this meme a few weeks ago (one could even say “last month”).
I’d seen the book of the same theory mentioned on some literary blogs I read a while back. The rules of the meme are:
Write your own six-word memoir.
Post it on [...]
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As I continue with the Buy Nothing Challenge, I’m enjoying the challenge to my mindset.
On the one hand, I’ve several times this week had the urge to go out for coffee. I’ve instead made coffee and chai at home. I am looking at my desire to go buy stuff for entertainment - as a break [...]
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