A Bag Lady Again

April 6, 2010

Some projects are more exciting just to think about. That’s what I discovered when I decided to crochet a grocery bag out of plastic bags! It seemed like a delicious irony to use up all those plastic bags. I said I was going to do it … pronounced it in public … so I had [...]

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I’ve Seen The Light

March 29, 2010

My husband eyed me warily as I followed him around the house turning off the lights when he left the room. I could hear him muttering under his breath. I didn’t understand everything he said, which was probably a good thing for him, but I caught a few of the words: “mumble, mumble…sounds like my [...]

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My Expensive Dish Drying Rack

March 15, 2010

I have a VERY expensive dish rack — my dishwasher! Yeah, yeah. I know all the arguments for using the dishwasher instead of hand washing dishes. Researchers argue that it doesn’t save anything to hand wash instead of use the dishwasher in a typical family. According to the Bonn Institute in Germany, a dishwasher uses [...]

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Just Hanging — Clothes

March 8, 2010

Do y’all remember hanging out clothes when you were a little kid? That was one of the chores I learned to do as soon as I was tall enough to reach the clothes line. If I close my eyes, I can smell the damp freshness of the linen sheets (yes, we had real linens) and [...]

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Going Green At The Grocery

March 1, 2010

My perspective is changing as I attempt to “go green.” I don’t like to say that I’m on a “diet” (nobody likes to go on a “diet!”), but I don’t know what else to call it. I’m on an “energy diet.” In order to lose weight we must monitor how many calories we consume. We [...]

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Am I Doomed To Trash This Project?

February 22, 2010

I forgot my shopping bags when I went on my shopping spree to “BigLots!” They spell it with that exclamation at the end, but don’t get excited if you have never been there. As my Papaw would say, “It ain’t much.” My mission had been to buy washcloths so I could be a Green Goddess [...]

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What Did We Do Before Paper Towels?

February 20, 2010

I’m thinking that before paper towels we did a LOT of laundry, but I’m about to find out for sure. I’ve decided that I’m going to take another step toward “green.” I’m going paperless in my kitchen. I’m determined to save the environment and save money. I know that most of y’all think that’s crazy, [...]

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No More Excuses For No Grocery Bags

July 9, 2009

Down at the coffee shop this morning, I conducted an informal poll. Folks sitting at the tables there are accustomed to me dropping by and asking stupid questions and, thankfully, they put up with me. I asked ten people, “What is the easiest baby step that a person can take to ‘go green’?” Surprisingly to [...]

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Helping My Friends Go Green

June 16, 2009

This “shoe” dominates my kitchen. It once lived served its purpose as a display rack at a department store. However, I found it languishing at the bottom of a pile in a junk store and recycled it as a spice rack. It’s only one of the weird pieces of decoration at my house that people [...]

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My Heavy Foot Leaves A Big Carbon Footprint

June 2, 2009

Furious! That’s what I was. I had been “stood up” for a date by the boy with whom I was “going steady.” Now, what’s the point of “going steady” if you aren’t going to go anywhere? I hopped into my little Toyota and drove like a bat out of you-know-where into town to find that [...]

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Holy Cow-I Love It! Only The Good Friday.

April 24, 2009

As I’ve been attempting to “go green,” my biggest difficulty has been giving up my cleaning products. I have assembled an arsenal of chemicals for cleaning over the years that would rival the shoe collection of Imelda Marcos. All of those bottles lining my shelf are filled with toxic chemicals that are harmful to the [...]

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Being Good To The Earth. Only The Good Friday.

April 17, 2009

Was it thirty eight years ago already? Yes, it was! In fact, this year makes thirty-nine. On April 22, 1970, the modern environmental movement was born as the very first “Earth Day” was celebrated. The goal was a healthy and sustainable environment; and approximately 20 million Americans became involved. Are you ready to celebrate Earth [...]

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How Do YOU Dispose of Old Medication?

March 2, 2009

In the last few years of her life, my Momma took literaly hundreds of different medications. It seemed that every week when she went to the doctors, they changed her meds or doses. Another half-used bottle of prescription medication got shoved to the back of the medicine cabinet. When Momma died, those medications got tossed [...]

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Re-thinking Recyling

December 10, 2008

Picture Christmas morning in your mind’s eye (you know this scenario very well): The children’s eyes pop open and they hop out of bed. As you sip your morning coffee, your little urchins dash for the Christmas tree and tear into the presents like frenzied piranhas attacking a dying cow. In their wake, they leave [...]

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Walkable Neighborhoods

July 5, 2008

It’s amazing to me that so many of us spend years trying to get to that home in the “Burbs.” We are conditioned to want that lovely, huge house on a tree shaded lot with an expanse of St. Augustine grass in front. It’s the American Dream! Yet living in the suburbs is so impractical. [...]

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You’ve Got Mail. Junk Mail, of Course

June 10, 2008

You brought the mail in today, and I know what you found. Your mail looks exactly like mine. You had Bills Catalogs filled with brightly colored and totally unnecessary plastic objects Magazines you will never take the time to read And, an armload of other junk mail There are credit card offers, coupons for things [...]

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Throwing In The Towel

April 8, 2008

I give up. I’m throwing in the towel, so to speak. There are some days I just can’t do anything right, and yesterday was one of them. Y’all I thought I was doing so good. I thought I was helping the environment. I washed my car Monday afternoon for the first time in a year. [...]

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