Archive for Lifestyle
Product Reviews – Welcome to my home!
Because I suffer from fairly severe buyers remorse and buyers anxiety, I am not one to just walk into a store and buy a product because I need it. Go to the store and blindly pick out toothpaste? No, no, no! When it comes down to products to be used in my [...]
Enviro Expo coming to Atlanta
This is for all the Atlanta locals.
What: Enviro Expo shows you how to green your life
When: Nov. 14-15, 2008, from 10AM – 5PM
Where: Americas Mart in Atlanta. 240 Peachtree Street N.W. Building 3, Atlanta, GA
Why you want to go: There will be demonstrations of all types of green products and services. You can sample all [...]
A few of my favorite things
… raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… I thought I’d let you into my day-to-day life. A few of the green things that keep me going. Things I use daily that I’m not sure I could manage without. Here it is:
My very first has to be my breadmaker. No, it isn’t solar-powered or constructed [...]
Recycle those campaign signs!
Now that the election is over, what do you do with the campaign signs that dotted your yard? Some people are keeping them as memorabilia of this historic election, and others are putting them up on freecycle. The metal frames can be saved and reused for future campaigns, or to frame garage sale signs.
But if [...]
Cup o’ Joe
As an incentive to get out and vote, Starbucks is offering a free cup of coffee to voters! Thanks to Allie over at Allie’s Answers for pointing this out to us. Of course, you’ll want to have them put it in the reusable mug you bring with you, right? So as not to trash your [...]
Sugar nation
Did you know that the average American consumes 34 teaspoons of sugar per day? Yikes! Sugar content is high in things you’d probably anticipate – sodas, sugary cereals – but it’s also high in items you wouldn’t normally considered high in sugar, like ketchup, yogurt, cranberry juice, toothpaste, bread, sports drinks, peanut butter, barbeque sauce [...]
The Story of Stuff
There’s a new banner on my left sidebar, down towards the bottom. It looks like this. Click on it and you’ll find yourself at a website with a really supercool video. Sure, it’s about 20 minutes long, but it’s well worth the time. Think about it. What else would you have done with those 20 [...]
Greening maid services
It seems like most of the big cleaning services out there are going ‘green,’ and that’s great news – we want to see fewer chemicals used in our community and less of an environmental footprint. But how many of them are really going green and how many are ‘greenwashing,’ or trying to fool their clientele? [...]
I’ve gotta make me one of these!
Say bye-bye to those square polypropylene bags in dated, boring colors. I can’t wait to knit myself a few of these! Maybe I’ll even reuse yarn from an old sweater…
It’s more than a reusable shopping bag. It’s an accessory. This just might be the reason I need to get up early enough to make it [...]
Kids in the kitchen?! Oh My!
Our good friend Jeana posted at her blog last week about having her 2 year old help her in the kitchen with tasks as mundane as unloading the dishwasher (though how can it be mundane when a toddler is handling your dinner plates?) to actually making salad, complete with cutting vegetables (again, toddlers and knives [...]
