“She’s making us walk that hill again,” my 10-year-old daughter Annie huffed as I dropped her off at camp today. According to her camp counselor, this has been Annie’s refrain every morning since camp started. You see, I’ve been making Jane and Annie walk to and from camp nearly every day. And why wouldn’t I? [...]
“You can wear your jeans more than once before you toss them in the laundry,” I remember my mom telling me this when I was a preteen. At the time I thought that it was a gross concept—wearing clothes more than once. Ew. I also thought that she was just being difficult, because, you know, [...]
It’s hard to believe it, but two months ago today, we closed on our dream house–and moved in. What’s not hard to believe is that, two months later, we are still living among the boxes. Little by little we are trying to unpack and re-sort our personal belongings so that they make some kind of [...]
For many Americans buying a first car is a rite of passage. Perhaps it’s because I spent my formative years living in a place with abundant public transportation, I didn’t own a car until I was 26. Rite of passage, my foot. The only reason my (then new) husband and I bought a car was [...]
Kermit the Frog was wrong. These days it IS easy to be green. People were waiting months to purchase the popular Toyota Prius hybrid car, townships are requiring residents and stores to recycle paper goods like never before, and one of the biggest trends in building and construction is doing so in a green way.
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Anyone who owns a dog or a cat (or any other creature for that matter) will tell you that soon enough, these four-legged friends become like children to you–even if you have “regular” children. And like your children, you want to do your best in taking care of them by giving them the best things [...]
Despite our newly frugal ways, we did slip up a bit and go on a vacation to London last week. My husband Bill was already there on business, meaning his company was picking up the tab for our lodging and per diem meals. All we had to do was get there and enjoy ourselves. [...]
Long before I became a homeowner, pocket change played an important role in my life. As an apartment dweller, I needed quarters for laundry and parking meters. Other change was useful if I needed to purchase something from a vending machine or, put on your time travel suits, to make a call using a pay [...]
A couple of years ago I stopped food shopping at the nearby supermarket for a two reasons. I wasn’t convinced that it offered me the best prices, and I knew that its produce was less than perfect. So many times I would come home from grocery shopping, and a day later the cucumbers were mush, [...]
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