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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Every day at my daughter’s school, they have a question of the day for each child to answer at check-in. Today’s question was “Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?” We don’t, really, even though Little Cheap’s birthday is tomorrow (we’re not Irish, for one). She has asked us to celebrate so I’ve been trying to [...]
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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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Posted in Environment, Holidays on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday, we talked about what to get others. But what does the green-lover on your list want for Christmas? Here are some great ideas …
Reusable bags that match and look nice, if the recipient is stylish. Be sure to propose an excellent home for the old bags.
A nice collection of compact fluorescent light (CFL) [...]
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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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Oh, you think your Christmas is green, do you? Well, read this and see how green your gifts are. http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/2007/12/holiday-ideas.html
I was interested to hear in the Democratic debate on NPR the other day that John Edwards says there will be no toys from China under his tree. I believe my daughter’s top two gifts were [...]
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