Mar 22, 2020 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Culture, Just plain good, World |
I’m a cyclist. Not a race-winning, super fast, well-known cyclist, but an average-pace, somewhat normal human being that loves to ride a bike. In fact, I love to ride so much, I’m planning to ride the Southern Tier in September this year. I need to practice a lot to...
Nov 19, 2016 | All gone for good, Giving something back, Just Jody, Sharing, Trying to matter
Last night was our first bout of cold weather in the North Texas area, and with an overnight freeze warning. I chose to sleep outside. I’d like to say I slept outside as one of my social experiments to try and help people in some way. No, this time it was to...
Nov 17, 2014 | Featured, Giving something back, Lost & Found, Sharing
I awoke this morning to a long feed of social media posts about snow in the North Dallas area this morning. Most people think snow is beautiful. I lived a portion of my childhood in Wisconsin and I see snow a little differently. Yes, it’s beautiful, but I only...
May 4, 2013 | A better way, Save $ |
I’m doing a new challenge, one I’ve decided not to blog about until it’s complete. Well, I guess I’m breaking my own rule here, as the challenge is for 2 months and I haven’t even completed the first month. The challenge is to buy...
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Mar 24, 2013 | A better way, Dumpster diving, No Disposable Items Challenge
You know, I can complicate anything. I didn’t have a blog post yesterday because I had written so much, I didn’t have the time to edit and organize it, much less find images for it. Today is simple. How much disposable stuff is imposed on us? Receipts?...
Mar 4, 2013 | Cultural chaos, Just plain good |
Please vote for me!! Voting takes place from March 4 to April 12. I submitted an entry on toms.com to win a Giving Trip. I want to win this! A TOMS Giving Trip is on my bucket list. Here’s my entry (click on it to vote for me): Here’s the scoop: My...
Sep 24, 2012 | A better way, Am I still here?, Creative weirdness, Downsizing |
The garage (cleaning) art project. My garage is always a diaster area. I couldn’t fit a car in there if I tried. Heck, I’m not even sure a bike would fit. Now let me be clear. Even if I could fit a car in my garage, I wouldn’t put one in there....
Jun 4, 2012 | A better way, Downsizing |
Why didn’t I just say, “No thank you?” It was nice that the doctor gave each of my kids a plastic sports bottle, but I knew as he was offering them that we’re not keeping these. Why did I not speak up? Would it have been rude to say no? Do...
Jun 2, 2012 | Cultural chaos, Recycle, Repurposed
I decided to go to the Frisco Farmers’ Market today. As the words farmers’ market suggests, I expected to find lots of local produce vendors and maybe a few other food-type vendors. Since the name starts with Frisco, maybe my expectations should have...
Dec 5, 2011 | Abandoned places, Book reviews, Cultural chaos, Dumpster diving, One year of downsizing
I wasn’t going to do much blogging on holiday shopping, but people keep asking me what kind of stuff I’m buying for Christmas gifts or what are good gifts to give that give back to people in need? So here it is… my brain dump on Christmas shopping. Yes, I call it...
Nov 26, 2011 | Cultural chaos, Flashback, Read the fine print
I love reading and making fun of the Black Friday ads, but better than that, reading the fine print can be quite entertaining. I started this last year on black friday. I got to do it this year with my friends Jason and Carrie. You can read last year’s post...
Nov 14, 2011 | Creative weirdness, Repurposed, Salvaged
Being the extremely frugal person I am, I was not going to let the leftover queso go to waste. I was with a large group of people from church, half adults and half kids. I placed my queso in a non-styrofoam to-go container and realized my kids had leftovers too. I...
Oct 27, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Repurposed, Salvaged
I found a place of business a few days ago that models everything I believe in. The Grass Roots Eco Cleaners & Market is a wonderful place in Frisco that everyone should know about. So why is this place so great? The cleaning is eco-friendly The fixtures and...
Oct 6, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Downsizing, Just plain good
Over the past week, most of my blog efforts have been going to launching projectwarm.us. It might be crazy to try an collect 5,723 coats and blankets for the homeless by Thanksgiving, but that’s not going to stop us from trying! I started this with my friend...
Oct 2, 2011 | A better way, One year of downsizing, Save $
I’m on day 224 of 365 days in this challenge. Today marks a milestone, not in the days or numbers, but how I feel about this process. Difficulty. It’s increasingly more difficult to find areas in my house that I haven’t downsized. For some reason,...
Sep 26, 2011 | A better way, Repurposed, Save $
My boys needed a sling bag for a school camping trip. Now the really great thing about this, is that I tried to buy one of these for them at the beginning of the school year. They both said they didn’t really need one and could find something else to use....
Sep 24, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Save $
Yes, that’s my thermostat. It’s reading 92°. No, I don’t want to turn my air conditioner back on. One cool day is all need to motivate me to turn it off until the heat is needed. I’m tired of the high electric bills. I’m fine in the...
Sep 23, 2011 | Cultural chaos, Downsizing, Flashback
I don’t usually blog about food, but clearly this is a topic that falls into the “living differently” and “downsizing” categories. Flashback to 6 years old. I remember eating cereal called Kaboom. Do you remember it? The cereal itself...
Sep 17, 2011 | A better way, Ideas, Repurposed, Salvaged |
Yes, that’s a piece of art hanging on the wall outside, on my patio. I was painting this canvas in my garage, but the 100+ temperatures warped the wood frame. I still love the painting, and although I never finished it to my final idea, it’s now looking...
Sep 4, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Repurposed
I said, “No fast food through the end of the year.” Why? Mostly because of the wastefulness of it. The amount of disposable plastics, paper and styrofoam bothers me. We do fast food places out of convenience. I just wanted to see how badly I needed...
Aug 31, 2011 | A better way, Downsizing, Ideas |
I recently looked into downsizing my house. This idea came into my head for many reasons, which we can visit another time. I decided to do a little research and see if this was feasible. First, there’s a few things you should know about where I live. Frisco,...
Aug 8, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Just plain good, Read the fine print, Salvaged |
I got to participate in a really cool thing yesterday. New Dos and New Shoes at the Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center. Under-resourced kids got new shoes and new hairdos for going back to school. Several hairdressers got together to provide these...
Aug 4, 2011 | A better way, Cultural chaos, Read the fine print, Repurposed, Salvaged, Save $
Yes, it’s time to start preparing for back-to-school. My kids are in denial that they’re going back soon. I’m in denial that I have to spend a lot of money on school supplies. Of all the challenges a year of no retail shopping posed on our lives,...
Aug 2, 2011 | Book reviews, Read the fine print
Thanks so much to Frisco Style Magazine for rethinking good in their August 2011 arts issue. No retail shopping for one year has proven to be a great way to rethink no only shopping, but the way we live life. Here’s a few of the blog posts related to the...
Jul 25, 2011 | A better way, Mini challenges, Save $ |
My new mini-challenge… no fast food through the end of the year and no eating out for a month. (one exception: my friend’s birthday dinner) It pains me to see all of the paper waste from eating fast food. Not doing the fast food thing through the end of...
