Nov 13, 2010 | Dumpster diving, Ideas, No retail shopping, Recycle, Salvaged, Thrift store |
Okay, so it’s not an olympic sport… yet. I do however, find this black friday business very interesting. The idea for this blog post started with an article I found in a local magazine, called Black Friday: Survival Tips. Please understand, if you...
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...
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 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 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...
Sep 11, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle
I love to ride in Elizabeth’s car, as it’s nice and clutter free, unlike mine that my kids help keep in a state of ‘trashed’. She picked me up to go somewhere and she had a bunch of plastic water bottles on the floor. Of course, I had to ask....
Aug 21, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
Paper plates. Can you call them that anymore? Most of them are made from paper with plastic coatings, foam or plastic. I choose not to use them most of the time, but going camping, I figured that’s not a bad idea. I thought back to my girl scout days and...
Aug 11, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle, Save $ |
I shopped at the Soriana while in Mexico, only for food and toiletries. It’s similar to a Kmart here in the states. They have the best bakery there, aisles and aisles of breads and pastries as far as the eye can see. I had fun messing with my kids since all...
Jul 27, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle, Salvaged, Save $ |
I’m always yapping to people about my blog and the challenge, but most people will not remember the website name or think about visiting it. I would like to eventually turn this into a resource of ideas, from easy to radical, on making life changes to become...
Jul 23, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle, Salvaged |
I found this listing under ‘free stuff’ on craigslist.org. It made me smile. This is a great example of being mindful about our resources. Reply to: sale-qathe**********@craigslist.org for some reason i own 2 blue fuzzy lined little boys crocs size 9....
Jul 18, 2010 | Ideas, No retail shopping, Recycle
Doing this challenge, my kids seem to have more money too. Just yesterday, Cole paid Joe to clean his room. You know, if his room gets clean and that’s how he wants to spend his money, I’m good with it. Here’s what I found in Joe’s clean...
Jul 14, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle, Salvaged, Thrift store
No shopping yesterday AND I managed to avoid the grocery store. :) My kids and I went to see the Sno-cone Lady, then went to the library, and they actually wanted to sit there and read for a long time. Wow, that was nice. Much better than being in a store hearing,...
Jul 9, 2010 | Ideas, No retail shopping, Read the fine print, Recycle, Save $, Thrift store |
Just when you think you’ve seen it all… My friend E got an amazing espresso machine for Christmas last year. It takes little pods (they call them capsules), similar to the Keurig machines. E needed to stop at the retail store to buy some more pods. Now...
Jul 7, 2010 | Recycle
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Jul 7, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle
I got to tour a private island yesterday. The owners are really wonderful people and the island is absolutely beautiful. After seeing the rocks, the landscape, the ocean views and the beach, if I had to guess at what I would see next, I would have not guessed in a...
Jul 2, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle, Salvaged, Thrift store |
Okay, I had a desire to shop, but at a really fun little place on the side of the road. As Elizabeth calls Ed’s Stuff, “…it’s the little place that looks like a lot of yards sales threw up on the front lawn.” Ed is nice, not like the...
Jun 30, 2010 | Ideas, Recycle, Salvaged, Save $ |
problem: $0 I want to use the video feature on my DSLR, but when it’s bright and I’m outside, I can’t see the screen on the back of the camera in order to change my manual focus. possible solution: $375 I can buy a Zacuto Z-find attachment for my...
Jun 16, 2010 | Dumpster diving, Ideas, No retail shopping, Recycle |
On day 14 of the challenge, I blogged about a recycling program I set up at our church building. I have received some emails about my “free recycling program”, challenging me with the question, “Is it ethical?” Let me start by saying these people have some very...
Jun 9, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
I haven’t had any shopping challenges over the past few days, but I did figure out how to do some recycling at the church… for free. Churches are considered a business and fall under the commercial recycling programs. At my best estimation, for the...
Jun 2, 2010 | No retail shopping, Recycle |
I’m back home from my trip to Mexico and back into my much too busy routine. I don’t have any shopping challenges to report, however I am uncomfortable with my very comfortable life. There is one thing I’ve been thinking about, and that’s how...
