Get to Know Your Meter Before you make any changes to your home, I feel strongly that you must begin to read your meter and track your usage. You can do a lot to save electricity, but if you aren’t quantifying your progress until you get your bill at the end of the…
Homemaking
How to Make a Simple, Reusable Market Bag
Since we’re focused on “Using It Up” this week, it’s a great time to get more acquainted with how to re-purpose and/or up-cycle clothing! Let’s learn to make a simple, reusable market bag in about an hour! I can hear some of you mumbling that you don’t have a sewing machine and you don’t know…
How to Meal Plan for a Month
One of the fastest ways to get your budget under control is to manage your groceries more efficiently. What better way to do that than to learn “How to Meal Plan for a Month”? Planning for a month of meals isn’t as hard as it might sound, and since I’ve been doing it for decades…
28 Days to a Gently Sustainable Home: Use It Up!
Use It Up! The first week of our “28 Day Journey to a Gently Sustainable Home” begins with “Use it Up”. Can I ask you a question? Can you imagine what your life would be like if you weren’t able to separate yourself from anything until you had completely “Used It Up”? But first, let’s…
28 Days to a Gently Sustainable Home
Welcome to a New Year! It’s an exciting time because we start at “Day 1” again – everything is new and full of opportunity! Many folks this time of year begin to examine their finances for answers to the issues they face. Some have income problems, others have debt problems. Still even more are dealing…