These days I can’t pass a piece of litter without thinking WWJD. Not What Would Jesus Do but What Would Judy Do. Judy is my mother.
I don’t equate litter with my mom because she was an extreme litterbug when I was growing up. It’s because she was the exact opposite–someone who felt morally responsible for [...]
Move over Christmas: Halloween is turning into a major shopping holiday, with Americans expected to spend $5 billion dollars in 2007 on this spooky celebration, so says a National Retail Federation study on consumers’ Halloween spending habits. Broken down it comes out to just under $65 per person. That’s a number that can give a [...]
“I don’t remember Annie getting new carpet,” I think to myself as I step into my 10-year-old daughter’s room. All the shades are pulled and the lights are off (for once), so it’s dark as I pad across her surprisingly padded floor. When I reach her desk and flip on the desk light, right away [...]
This is probably green blasphemy, but I think this notion of people still pushing work-related carpooling in 2007 is completely out of touch with today’s realities. Don’t get me wrong–I love what carpooling attempts to accomplish, with fewer cars on the road, less emissions and money-savings for the driver and the riders. However, these days, [...]
It’s week three of composting, and I’m amazed at how much less trash we have. When you’re not tossing cucumber peels, watermelon rinds, apple cores, coffee grounds and bread crusts in the garbage can, it really adds up. According to an Environmental Protection Agency website on composting, food scraps and yard waste make up almost [...]
Before I began devoting my life to being green and frugal, I focused a lot of my writing and speaking on gifts and etiquette. One trick/tip that I shared over and over again in interviews was the notion of having a gift closet. This doesn’t have to be an actual “closet” but rather a place [...]
I was just catching up on my celeb gossip (yes, this green mama does that from time to time), and I read something on The Daily Green that made me guffaw: “Zac Efron arrived at last month’s Teen Choice Awards in an eco-limo.”
A what?
An eco-limo? If that isn’t a misnomer, I don’t know what is. [...]
Given my recent post about my magazine junkie-ness, it probably doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that I’m also a book junkie. Where ever my husband and I have lived, we’ve always had to have plenty of space to store our books and other printed materials. I’ve still got my high school copy [...]
Now that my radar is tuned into everything green and frugal, I’m amazed at how many more terrific resources and tips I find on the web. For the longest time, the most frequent green, money-saving tips you heard revolved around changing out your regular lightbulbs for the compact fluorescent kind and turning off the lights [...]
I’m glad to know that I’m not the only media junkie who is trying to survive in a frugal world. I recently clicked over to The Frugal Duchess blog (always a fun read), that Miami Herald writer Sharon Harvey Rosenberg pens. She was talking about breaking herself of her magazine addiction as a way of [...]
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