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Environment

Clean Your House the Natural Way

September 1, 2011

About 2 years ago when I started to clean up my finances, I moved into a new city and moved in with H.  After thinking about it for a while and talking with H, we both decided that we wanted to use as few harsh chemicals in the house as possible.  This meant changing cleaners, [...]

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Yakezie Blog Swap

August 23, 2011

Hello and welcome to the 10th Yakezie Blog Swap.   As many of you noticed, I guest posted over at 1 cent at a time, and SB had a nice post over here on friday while I was out hiking/camping.  There were some great posts for this topic, and I hope that you all go [...]

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Go Green, Reuse Household Items and Save Money

August 19, 2011

Which is better, a reuse or recycling? To me reuse is greener compared to recycle. When we recycle we pay the cost of transportation and some one else pay the cost of actual recycle where item ‘A’ is converted in to item ‘B’, a lot of energy is consumed in this transformation. Form next time, [...]

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How to build a compost bin

August 17, 2011

Not too long after I started this site (back when it was still hosted with WordPress) I set out to build a compost bin for my new house.  I had plans to take pictures of the process and blog about it, but I never did.  I think that I thought I had done all those [...]

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CSA Update #1

July 29, 2011

I havent mentioned much about our CSA since the Green Your Summer series, but I’ve decided to give some updates on the service every once in a while with my thoughts, etc. The first thing about our CSA was that I thought it started at the beginning of june, and unfortunately, I was not correct [...]

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How much do you need?

July 15, 2011

A while back, I had a green sweater that just up and disappeared.  I liked the sweater (a gift from H) and don’t have that many clothes, so I did a fairly through search of the house, my clothing and her clothing.  The damn thing never turned up, and I had no idea where or [...]

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Batman Rags and Fewer Paper Towels

June 27, 2011

Quite a while ago I found myself standing around at the gas station, waiting for my truck to finish filling up when I happened to look into a garbage pail nearby.  It was overflowing, but I was too busy focusing on what was in there.  (Dont worry, I didnt start digging through it)  There were [...]

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Green Your Summer: Shop Locally

June 17, 2011

Readers: I hope you’ve been enjoying the green your summer series this will (most likely) be the last installment, if you’re looking for the others, head over here. As I mentioned in the post about signing up for a  CSA, one of the largest contributors to your personal environmental footprint is your food.  Typically, food [...]

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Green Your Summer: Sign up for a CSA

June 10, 2011

Last year, a friend that I worked with signed up for a CSA.  For those of you that are unfamiliar, CSA is “community supported agriculture” and involves members paying the farm at the beginning of the season for a share in whatever the farm produces that season.  It could be fruits, veggies, breads, cheeses, etc. [...]

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An Ode to Vinegar

June 8, 2011

A few years ago, I didn’t really keep vinegar in the house – I had that typical very old, very small bottle that I’d need for a recipe here or there, but other than that, I never used the stuff.  It just sat there, lonely, collecting dust.  After diving into the personal finance world, I [...]

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