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Ways to Use Dryer Lint
As someone who likes to live as frugally as possible and hates to throw things away, I have gotten creative over the years with some pretty strange things. I just believe that in order to lower our...
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Frugal living tip! Don’t toss out those socks!
We all have ’em in our house: Socks with no matches, Socks with holes and Socks that you just can’t get the stains out of. If you are like me, you look for ways you could use these socks rather than...
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Autumn Crock-Pot Air Freshener
What scents remind you of Fall and Autumn? To me, it’s warm scents of cinnamon, apple butter and baking bread. It’s the smell of the autumn air with crunching leaves beneath my feet. It’s the smell of...
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9 Easy New Year’s Resolutions for your Mind, Body and Home
The new year is almost here and for many people that means making a new year’s resolution or two. The problem with new year’s resolutions is, they are often hard to keep and not practical. A new...
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25+ Natural Cold and Flu Remedies
If you are like most people, one or more colds has hit your home by about now into the cold & flu season. There are lots of things out there on the market to treat cold and flu, but what if you...
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What to Use Instead of Plastic
I recently wrote a post on cutting your use of plastic, but after I saw a documentary on Netflix over the weekend about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch called Plastic Paradise, I felt I needed to not...
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10 Tips for Purging Your Closet
You may be just like me. You have no problem purging and getting rid of all kinds of junk around the house, but when it comes to your closet and your clothes, that’s where the trouble begins. You may...
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How to Make Lavender Infused Oil
I love essential oils and one of my favorite is lavender. While essential oils are great, they are also kind of spendy and need to be diluted with a carrier oil. They are a process to make as well,...
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Save the Earth (and Your Wallet) by Shopping for Used, Open-Box and...
Katie is sharing tips for buying used, Refurbished and Open Box Electronics and how it can greatly impact our environment. I am an Environmentalist. I recycle and only buy local, organic produce. I...
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How to Clean Grease with Lemons
One of my biggest nemesis is grease in my kitchen. I have no hood over my stove, due to the space in there and my landlady not installing one. The grease covers my walls and around my stove pretty...
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How to Be Self-Sufficient in the City
I dream of owning a cabin in the woods or at least a piece of property one day. I have always lived in the city and most of my adult life has been spent in apartment living and/or living with...
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DIY Natural Lotion Melts
I am finding more and more that making some of my own beauty products is amazingly easy and fun. I love that I can control what goes into them and customize them for my needs and fragrance preference!...
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Eco-Friendly Laundry Tips
In an effort to make simple changes to going green, one way you can do this is by following greener tips for saving energy and time. I love the added bonus of saving money as well! Eco-Friendly...
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Naturally Dyed Rubberband Easter Eggs
As a kid, I always did dyed eggs with the kits you buy for under a dollar that have the fizzy tabs that turn your eggs bright, neon colors. To get designs I would take the little wax crayon that came...
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10 Things You Can Buy at the Dollar Store to help You be More Green
One thing I hear very frequently is that going green is costly and too much out of people’ budgets to do financially and practically. You don’t have to spend a fortune to buy Eco-friendly items these...
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Seedling Earth Day Cupcakes
It’s probably no surprise here that Earth day is very important to me. I am one of those hippie people who believe “Earth day is Every Day” yadda yadda yadda, but on actual Earth day, I feel extremely...
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6 Smart Composting Tips for Small Space Living
There is something really nice about saving money and growing a small garden even if you live in an apartment and only have a limited amount of space to work with. If you start with composting your...
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8 Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies
Summer’s in full swing and so are the bugs. If you live anywhere near water like we do, (we live a couple blocks from a river) you know all too well that these little buggers show up out of no where...
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How to Go Paper Free in the Kitchen
I used to be a huge consumer of paper products in the kitchen. I loved paper towels (the expensive ones!), napkins, and those disinfectant wipes. I used paper plates when I didn’t feel like doing the...
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Why You Need a Salt Lamp
I got a salt lamp last summer and I had always wanted one. If you don’t know what I am referring to, it’s a lamp made out of Himalayan salt that has some great benefits. Not only do I think they look...
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