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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 [...]
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 [...]
Pilgrims did it. Pioneers did it. Now, you can do it too. It’s an idea so old, it’s new again: it is possible to die and be environmentally conscientious. When a person died in the good old days, the choices for how to dispose of the body were generally simple. The deceased could be buried [...]
I spent part of the weekend pulling out all the cheesy Christmas decorations and putting them around the house. We don’t do a big Christmas tree due to our intelligent and highly destructive dog. I am so looking forward to her old age… But I degress. Is it greener to reuse all of the old [...]
“I don’t want to have it all. Because, where would you put it?” –Steven Wright The more I think about it, the more I think Steve Wright is, well, right. I went on my first clutter-busting binge a few years ago after reading a book called Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui. The author made [...]
When I think about growing my own food, I usually think about growing vegetables in my little back yard. Some friends of mine in the west Denver area keep chickens. “It was my mom’s idea,” says 9 year old Delaney. “The chickens whose eggs you buy in the store are treated really badly. They chop [...]
Green Living Simplified aims to help the environmentally challenged. (That includes me and the other writer of this blog.) We want to do our part to help solve the environmental problems of this planet, but we don’t know where to start. So, we’re going to start in our own back yards (literally) and look for [...]
