What You Need to Know About Plastic Bags
It’s a love, hate relationship! Plastic bags have allowed us to easily cart and store items since the 1960’s. As my Mom says she “loves plastic, because they didn’t have it when she was a kid”. The love part includes that they are cheap, light and quite durable, but that’s where the love story ends.
2013 Trash and Recycling Update
As many of you know, in January 2013 I began a project to simplify my life. One way I sought to simplify was by reducing my trash and my recycling waste. I read Beth Terry’s book “Plastic Free” and it made me aware that there is no magical “away” that our trash goes to. Instead, […]
January Simplifying (Part 2 – Less Plastic)
I spent January simplifying my home drawer by drawer, closet by closet and room by room. During early January I checked out a book at the library called “Plastic Free” by Beth Terry and it is knock your socks off amazing! As I read through this book I realized that it too was about simplifying […]
January is for Simplifying
For the past ten years I have intuitively come up with a word on New Years Eve that will guide me in the coming year. In 2007 my word was “Simplify.” What was really weird is that in 2008 my word that I was getting was once again “Simplify.” I thought something was wrong with […]
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