Nov 8, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print, Recycle |
I love the concept of freecycle.org, however, I have the worst luck actually getting anything. I’ve responded to emails the second they hit my inbox, and the stuff seems to be gone. It’s like calling into a radio station to be the 63rd caller. Do they...
Nov 7, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
I stumbled upon this photo while doing some research on recycling. A design student created it, a plastic chair form and you stuff it with recycled, or in the case, reused stuff(ing). According to the info given, he got a poor grade because the stuff(ing) would...
Nov 6, 2010 | No retail shopping |
This week has been crazy. There’s been no time to shop, even if I had wanted to. This next week, I will be working on a cool project, so I’ll be keeping the blog posts short. Here’s a preview of the project. Yes! Of course it has to do with...
Nov 5, 2010 | Ideas, No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
Last night at dinner, I was having a conversation about not being wasteful, mostly with food, but really anything else. In efforts to not be wasteful, the conversation quickly lead to the subject of expiration dates. Expiration dates are helpful in many ways, but...
Nov 4, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print, Thrift store |
The challenge has been challenging this week. I get my kids clothes at thrift stores or they are hand-me-downs (or handy-downs as Cole calls them), which has worked nicely for a long time. It’s still working, but here are some of the difficulties. Boys vs....
Nov 3, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
Trained shopping monkeys. I went grocery shopping last night. After reading the statistics about how Americans throw away almost half of the food they purchase, either by the food going bad before they cook it or plate leftovers, I was trying to be more conscious...
Nov 2, 2010 | Abandoned places, No retail shopping |
Zombies 101: Okay, this is for real. The University of Baltimore is offering a new class, a class on zombies. The class will study America’s fascination with zombie movies and pop culture. The class will watch 16 classic zombie films, read zombie comics and...
Nov 1, 2010 | No retail shopping |
I did run into a difficult no shopping dilemma. My boys needed underwear and socks. Not only are these impossible to find used, I’m not really into buying these used. This is where I draw the line… Luckily their dad bought these basic necessities. I...
Oct 31, 2010 | Abandoned places, No retail shopping |
No, this is not random, just a collection of odd things we found yesterday…
Oct 30, 2010 | No retail shopping
I’m working on a video and 2 fun photo shoots today. Creative downtime! In making the video, I’m using props I already have or borrowing from the neighbors. I’m glad they still answer the door when I’m the one ringing the bell. Today, just a...
Oct 29, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
Let’s see… A trip to the grocery store, a quick stop at the thrift store and trying to fix my temperamental grill once again, not a huge shopping day. My kids have outgrown most of their winter clothes so I needed to find some sweatshirts and long-sleeve...
Oct 28, 2010 | No retail shopping, Save $ |
I had to go to Target to allow my son to exchange a birthday gift he received. I put it off for a few weeks, but I needed to get it done. I had to pick up a few groceries, and Target is a place where I could get both things done. Of all the retail stores, I probably...
Oct 27, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
My kids are entering an art contest, the theme is “together we can”. The photos here aren’t their first photos, but it is their first experience with Photoshop. Cole’s photos are about the food army, video and pics are on foodarmy.info....
Oct 26, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
I know!! But I had a good reason! Three actually… #1 – Friendship My friend Susan, who is a walking miracle and an awesome woman, can’t drive right now. She had major surgery and is on a no driving restriction for several months. I’m off...
Oct 25, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print
This made me smile. A reusable express mail envelope? I don’t use any type of mail system very often so I had no idea UPS was doing this. Is DHL and FedEx doing this too? The little tag line is: Use. Reuse. Then recycle. I like that, but I would change it...
Oct 24, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
I was paging through a girly magazine as I getting my hair done last week. ‘Done’ meaning colored… So this isn’t my normal choice of magazine, as I prefer art, life or business themes, however I thought I would look just to see what the hype...
Oct 23, 2010 | No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
Let me start by saying I’m not a baseball fan, but I did watch the Texas Rangers game last night and it’s pretty cool that they’re going to the World Series. As I typically do with any sports games, including the Superbowl, I watch for the...
Oct 22, 2010 | No retail shopping
I’ve been too busy this week to even think about shopping, however one thing is clear. Time is money, money is time and it all flies out the window very quickly.
Oct 21, 2010 | No retail shopping, Save $ |
I will be leading a breakout session today at ministryCOM, a church communications conference. I like to dress comfortable, and I usually do without a second thought. So why did I feel the need to try on everything in my closet today? The cultural norm is to buy a...
Oct 20, 2010 | No retail shopping, Save $ |
I think I’m a hoarder. I hoard domain names. I love to .communicate on the web! I own 25 domain names, 4 of them belong to my friends and 2 belong to my kids. I get ideas for blogs and businesses all the time and the first thing I do is check for a domain...
Oct 19, 2010 | No retail shopping
Going once… going twice… SOLD! I went to the Samaritan Inn Gala last Saturday night. This is an annual event and is the biggest fundraiser of the year, providing the Samaritan Inn to thank people who have gone above and beyond them and their efforts to...
Oct 19, 2010 | No retail shopping, Save $, Thrift store |
Yes, I did it. I went into a retail store. It was Marshalls, and I went because I was asked to help pick out a tie and a shirt. Just for the record, we did look at the thrift store first, however it’s hard to find specific things in the right sizes. We were...
Oct 17, 2010 | Ideas, No retail shopping, Recycle, Save $
I had an interesting conversation with a guy I met recently in our church group. Curt lived in Hawaii for a long time, after living in Amarillo, Texas. We were discussing the “green issues”, possibly prompted from my lack of paper plates and plastic...
Oct 15, 2010 | No retail shopping
When I was image searching yesterday, I found this version of “Bobs”. Now here’s a shoe that has a good reason to be called Bobs. I wonder if Spongebob has a pair of these? That would be no different than the CEO of Skechers, Robert Greenberg,...
Oct 14, 2010 | Ideas, No retail shopping, Read the fine print |
I would have loved to be in the brainstorming meeting when the Skechers people thought this was a good idea… Exactly copying Toms Shoes, marketing program and compassion program? Why? The compassion part is understandable if they are wanting to make a...
