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Challengicious Monday: Reduce Your Indoor Water Use
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. Here's your first water-related challenge:Reduce Your Indoor Water UseTo complete this challenge, you can...BABY STEPSFill up your dishwasher all...
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Reuseit.com Review and Giveaway
We've talked a lot this year about reducing our trash by switching from disposables to reusable products. As I've mentioned, I was recently invited to become an ambassador for Reuseit.com to continue...
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Seven Weeks of No Poo
Last night as my husband and I were getting into bed, I made him listen to me gripe about no poo for 15 minutes, and when I finished, I said, "That was the post I was going to write tonight but I...
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Challengicious Monday: More Indoor Water Reduction
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. Like last week's water-related challenge, this week I'm challenging you to:Reduce Your Indoor Water UseTo complete this challenge, you can...BABY...
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May Budget Round-Up
This is a good month. Not only are we under budget, but we're also down one more trash bag this month. Hopefully we can keep that up!One big change, though...I was given a new responsibility at church...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winner of the Reuseit.com Giveaway
The winner of the $25 gift certificate from Reuseit.com is Abbie, who wrote:Oh, thanks for this wonderful website. As i am thinking about teacher thank-you gifts, and upcoming birthday presents, oh,...
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How I Came to Peace with My Grocery Bill
I'm over at the Green Phone Booth today accepting my high grocery budget:For a long time, those conversations made me feel ridiculous. I've been looking for ways to add more money to my grocery budget....
View ArticleJune Extreme Challenge
Another month, another extreme challenge!Buy Nothing NewHave you all heard of The Compact? They're a group of people who pledge to buy nothing new for a year. Be happy I'm not asking you to go that...
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Homemade Strawberry Jam and Syrup
My two younger boys and I spent the morning at an organic u-pick strawberry farm a couple weeks ago. The boys were amazingly good and even helped, so I kept picking and picking. Tip for any parents who...
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Challengicious Monday Reduce Your Outdoor Water Use
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. Here's this week's water-related challengeReduce Your Outdoor Water UseMy out-of-control garden, taller than my five-year-oldInstead of the usual...
View ArticleGrocery Bills, Budgets, and Flawed Food Systems
In case you missed it, here was my post yesterday at the Green Phone Booth:Last week, we talked a lot about the cost of groceries - first with my post about how I came to peace with my high grocery...
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I Need...Sunscreen
This past weekend, we headed down to Wilmington for some fun times on one of North Carolina's beautiful beaches. As soon as we got there, we dutifully slathered our boys with sunscreen - I had bought a...
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How to Get Your Kids to Eat Salad (Put flowers in it!!!)
Mix a mesclun salad mix with strawberries, toasted walnuts, green onions, and the pansies that you need to pick out of your garden and replace with the more summery petunias, and drizzle with a basic...
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Challengicious Monday: More Outdoor Water Reduction
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. Like last week, this week's water-related challenge is:Reduce Your Outdoor Water UseJust a few more random tips for you this week:Periodically check...
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My Big Jobs Day
When you read a blog, you get a little glimpse into the writer's life, but have you ever wondered what happens the rest of the day? This month, all of the Green Moms Carnival members will be writing...
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CSA: Community Supported...Artists?
My post today at the Green Phone Booth veers a little away from green living to talk about one way to help musicians make an album without a major record label:Recently I came across one more way for...
View ArticleMy Reusable Life
Have you ever heard the argument, "You would have to go through X-amount of styrofoam cups to equal the environmental impact of ONE mug, so there's nothing wrong with using styrofoam cups." (Or...
View ArticleWhat Happened to My Header Image (and why I'm not sure if I'm cut out for...
On Wednesday night, I had trouble falling asleep, and once sleep finally came, I had restless dreams, and once the dreams finally left me in peace, my Early Bird children began their morning...
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Travel Sustainably
We've Trimmed Our Waste Lines, Energized, and Watered Down, and now it's time to...Travel SustainablyWe'll be changing our transportation habits with the following weekly challenges:WalkBikeKeep up...
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Challengicious Monday: Walk
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. This week's travel-related challenge is:WalkBABY STEPSCheck Walk Score to find out the walkability of your neighborhood. Start small and scope out...
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