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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Green Living, Home, Travel, energy on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Biggest news of the week: The President signed the energy bill.
“The bill also calls for improved energy efficiency of appliances such as refrigerators, freezers and dishwashers, and a 70 percent increase in the efficiency of light bulbs. It also calls for energy efficiency improvements in federal buildings and construction of commercial buildings.
“The new lighting standards [...]
Posted in Eco-quandary, Green Living, Home, Saving, Travel, energy on November 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, The Simple Dollar wrote an article about how much it costs to leave lights on. He concluded that if it takes him two minutes to turn off the lights in his house (he must have a big house! I think my almost-2,000-square-foot house would take less than a minute - [...]
Posted in Eating, Fun, Green Living, Shopping, Travel, energy on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This weekend, we hit the road for a break from everyday life. We drove from Denver to Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a few days. The trip wasn’t exactly (OK, not in any way) a money saver, but it was a much-needed respite from the daily grind — and turned up several surprisingly [...]
Posted in Eating, Environment, Travel on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Save on going to Disney World: Free Money Finance did a lengthy (for him, not for me ) post about this on Wednesday. I especially loved the ParkSleepFly tip - although we aren’t far from our local airport, I’m going to file that away for return trip options.
The Motley Fool published a short piece on [...]
Posted in Deals, Fun, Travel, money on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Last summer, we escaped the dry heat of Colorado for southern California sunshine.
Lots of people hit the beach for vacation. But my goal was to find a way to make the trip for a whole week for around $1,000.
We did it. The three of us stayed in schmancy Laguna Beach, visited Disneyland and cruised Vegas [...]
