This page is an attempt to share tips, successes, and failures as my family and I pursue a less waste lifestyle.
Take a Class, Learn a Skill I’m dedicating these next four or so posts to batch holiday gifts so for those of you who normally receive holiday gifts from me, avert your eyes or the surprise will be ruined. You’ve all been warned. Moving on, did you all roll your eyes a little bit when …
A personal post I don’t often write personal posts on here, the last being the one about dressing my size (which, embarrassingly enough, got 10x more clicks than any other post), because vulnerability is hard and I also don’t want my personal thoughts and beliefs to turn you off from saving the world through less …
Pantry Meal: Homemade Alfredo Growing up, I remember my mom was not always enthusiastic about cooking on Sunday nights. Now that I’m a grown up, I get it. Preparing Sunday night dinners is rough. You’re already depressed for Monday arriving bright and early the next morning, you’re coming down from the high of the weekend, …
Pantry Meal: Fried Rice It’s the end of the month and you’ve declared you only have “$6 for 6 days!” Or it’s Monday after work and your weekend was too busy and you were too exhausted to go to the grocery and you don’t want to order takeout and collect more plastic containers. This is …
Here it is in all its glory. Other than some jewelry and my Waterpik, this is all I have in my bathroom to keep myself together. I’ve never worn makeup so that’s why you don’t see it here. Starting from the left, you can see that I can’t let go of my Arm and Hammer …
Getting the biggest bang for your bouquet buck One time, in the earliest years of our marriage, I told Andrew to stop buying me flowers unless he was going to cut, water and arrange them! Believe it or not, I don’t regret saying this. He got the easy job of buying them and handing them …
Post Data Collection Hey Everyone! Do you remember this picture? It’s from my first ever post. We are coming up to one month until the one year anniversary of this page. If you recall, I challenged you to count your garbage bags for a month in order to see if you could make that number …
The unexpected result of buying used clothes Warning: I’m going to get a little personal in this post. I figure it’s fairly safe since we’ve now been together for almost a year, right? Also, it’s a bit long so apologies in advance. That is a margarita in my hand because 1) when you’re in a …
Zero waste temporary decorating Every year our family goes on vacation for a week to a camp on a lake. Without going into detail, I will just say that it has been many decades since these cabins have been updated, but that’s okay because we are not going there for the sleeping accommodations but for …
Gift idea: Sink Scrub I found this sink scrub on the Clean Mama website (https://www.cleanmama.net/…/diy-homemade-cleaners-nightly-s…) and used it for a while and loved it so much that two Christmases ago, I thought I would gift it to my friends and family. Ever since we were children, my cousins, sister and I would make gifts for …