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I planned to write another “simplify your holidays” post but I loved this news story from last week. A couple in New York City have found the ultimate way to simplify their lives. They live in an apartment that’s only 175 square feet. Sheez, my first apartment was at least 500 square feet. And that [...]
Every year it seems that we kill ourselves cooking for a Thanksgiving meal that lasts about half an hour. While I love having a big meal with friends and family around the table, there are several ways to cut down on the stress and work of Thanksgiving dinner. 1. Have everybody be responsible for a [...]
Now that I’ve recovered from my Halloween Candy Sugar Hangover, I realized that The Official Holiday Season Has Begun. (Oh Joy.) Shoot, I’m still raking leaves and trying to find time to put the plastic over the sliding glass door to keep the drafts out. I’m not ready to think about Celebrating The Holidays, especially the [...]
I was pleasantly surprised by how many articles I found under “greening your Halloween.” Halloween truly is a holiday where you can recycle, and reuse for the best results in costumes and decorations. I really think that most of the fun in Halloween lies in being someone else and using stuff around the house to [...]
I love my xeric front yard. What I love most about it is that I can pretty much ignore it most of the time and it still looks pretty good. During the summer, I might wander out there every 2-3 weeks and weed. This year, we had so much rain here in the Denver metro [...]
I hate to wash my car by hand. I would rather spend the $6 to drive to my local car wash, put it in neutral and be magically guided through the soaping, rinsing, waxing, and drying cycles, ending with a clean car. It’s my idea of a Disneyland ride. Plus, washing your car at home means having [...]
Scenario: The year 2209. (Perhaps a Tuesday?) An intrepid archeologist digging in an American garbage landfill comes upon thousands of preserved plastic baggies of……doggie do? “Boy,” he says, “people in those days saved the damnest things.” Anybody with a dog has probably considered the question of what to do with all of their pet’s “output.” [...]
Let me say upfront that I believe in recycling. I also think that it’s a pain in the #@!. Our HOA voted to end curbside recycling and now have a big rollaway dumpster for recyclables near the clubhouse. Is it still environmentally conscious to have to drive your recyclables over to be recycled? So, we [...]
It’s time for my annual gardening ritual: The clearing of the rubble. I love clearing the old dead stuff out of the garden to see the new plants peeking up out of the dirt. I’m not so crazy about the resulting backache from doing this for an entire morning, but that kind of goes with [...]
I’m a member of my local library’s Friends group. You know, the little old ladies who raise money for the library reading programs by running a used bookstore in the library. (Except these ladies would kick your ass if you called them that.) I have been awed at the amount of time and sweat these women [...]
