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Day 163- 40% Off Sounds Great, But….
I just found this great coupon for 40% off of CFL lightbulbs, but unfortunately you need to be a Duke Energy Customer. I just so happen to part of a local energy co-op and not serviced by Duke Energy. Do you know of a great coupon or deal to save on ...
Day 162- If It’s Too Loud, Then You Are Too Old
I bought a music CD for the first time in quite a long time. I average about one CD per year. There just aren’t that many groups out there that I would freely part with $11.99 of my hard earned money. Back in college, before the digital age, a ...
Day 160- Cell Phones for Soldiers
Each year, millions of cell phones are retired but I found statistics that say less than 1% of these phones are recycled. Granted I have only had three phones in my life. I more than likely would still have my last one if I didn’t drop it so I ...
Day 159- If You Want it Bad Enough
I read in our local paper that we will have new recycling bins next July. Finally. A majority of people have commented that it is time that the city decided to make the change. Currently we are given one small bin with an open top. On windy days you ...
Day 158- Get the Point and Have the Power
For those of you who are new to the site, no this is not my primary writing gig. I am an environmental super hero. By day I am the mild mannered regular guy who works for a well known mortgage company in default compliance as a technical writer/edito...
Day 157- The Great Garbage Patch
There are quite a number of patches that I am aware of: Cabbage Patch Kids, pumpkin patch, anti-smoking patches, patch quilt, patchwork, eye patch, software patches, Patch Adams, contraceptive patches, and the little green patch. I could go on, but y...
Day 155- Bulk Up
I am not a real good shopper. I tend to over think the process a bit too much. I am OK when it comes to general shopping for a couple of specific items, but you can just about forget it when it comes to multiple lists and multiple stores. I can safel...
Day 154- Free Office Supplies
No matter where you work, there is always a supply closet or area. Some are organized and are controlled by an overprotective employee; while others can be an inventory nightmare and have just about everything you don’t want, but rarely something t...
Day 152- Turn it off for the planet
Back on Day 129, I wrote about taking the time to turn off all non essential lighting. I recently stumbled across a cool event that is actually happening around the world on Saturday March 28, 2009 called Earth Hour. It is basically turning off all e...
Day 151- Monitor your Monitor
Let me first apologize for being a little lazy on this project. I recently picked up a new full time writing position. This one has a paycheck attached to it–and can you believe health insurance? Who knew writers could get health insurance with...
Day 150- A Toilet to Dye For
I would like to pass on a bit of parenting advice that I have learned over the weekend before we begin today. If your children are playing quietly in their rooms, then you should definitely go ahead and check in on them—they are up to no good. Sure...
Day 148- Tear it up
I bought a paper shredder many years ago, but I have been a bit more reluctant to use it now that the container is full. It actually came with a smaller can–which I filled up many times. I took the top off of the original can and placed it on ...
Day 146- The Pen is Mightier
I don’t remember the last time that I actually bought a pen before yesterday. Just like your weird friends, they just seem to always be there. To tell you the truth, I really don’t know where I get them, but upon closer inspection they all seem t...
Day 145- Oh, Baby Baby
A few years ago, Beanie Babies were all the rage. I didn’t get into collecting them myself, but I know that there were a few friends of mine that went nuts over collecting them. There were even little plastic things that protected the tag. I c...
Day 142- Greeting Cards From the Edge
We spent the weekend taking down our indoor holiday decorations. I still have the outdoor things in the yard since it has been raining here for the past few days. I really do not want to put them away while they are still wet. I have them unplugged t...
Day 141- This Pair of Pants for Your Shirt and a Blouse to be Named Later
More and more people are swapping relatively inexpensive things like sports cards, comics, and event tickets. I have seen even more expensive things being swapped like houses, apartments, and wives. Yes, wives are expensive. I really do not know what...
Day 140- Little Orphan Document
I consider myself to be pretty good at formatting and customizing text in a variety of word processing platforms. Many of them do not exist anymore like ClarisWorks, which is now AppleWorks, AppleWrite and Word Perfect. Everyone has their own prefer...
Day 136- Testing, Testing, 1, 2……3
It seems that we put up our Holiday decorations earlier each year. About five B.C. (before kids), I was just happy to get a small potted Norfolk Pine tree with a couple of ribbons. My wife kindly reminded me that it looked like the Charlie Brown Chri...
Day 134- How to Really Green Your Thanksgiving Part Two
The turkey is ready, the Detroit Lions are on their way to another resounding loss, most of your guests have arrived and amazingly there have been no family arguments yet. So far so good. As the house heats up with the oven and stove, crack a window ...
Day 132- Turn Back Friday Into a Green Friday
It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just around the corner with Black Friday right on its heels. For those of you in different countries, here in the United States the Friday after Thanksgiving is typically known as Black Friday. The term...
Day 131- Share the Art
My oldest daughter, who just started Kindergarten this year, brings home more paper artwork than we can handle. It’s pretty tough to pick out the things that we want to keep out of the bunch every week. I have a bankers box for the things that ...
Day 129- Shoe Recycling
I never knew that there were so many ways that you can recycle shoes. I’m not really a shoe person to begin with, so maybe that’s why I never looked into it before now. A lot of people are writing about the new program that Nike has laun...
Day 128- Lose Your Accent
No, I’m not talking about how you say things, but about how you light your home. Accent lights are pretty when there are guests, but not very practical on a daily basis. The lights that I am talking about are the ones in your china cabinet, cur...
Day 125- Spaces Are Not Empty, Period
I was looking through my style book the other day on where to put a period in relation to quotation marks and brackets. Not exactly exiting reading, but it does offer some guidance on rules that are seldom used. I also wanted to see where it says to ...
Day 122- Hi, My Name is…….
I went to an event the other day where we all had those cheap plastic name badges. You know the ones–the 3×5 plastic holder with the safety pin on the back and the generic card stock with your name on it. Those who forgot to register (or ...
Day 121- Only 62 More Shopping Days Until Christmas
It’s hard to believe that the holiday season is just around the corner. Well, 63 more days to Christmas to be exact. It seems as though retail stores start decorating earlier and earlier. Pretty soon, stores will have holiday stuff for sale ...
Day 118- Against the Wind
Needless to say, it took a while to find the right resources when I was first searching the Internet for documentation on “breaking wind”. I had to change the words around a few times and finally got what I was looking for when I used &#...
Day 117- ‘Cause All She Wants to do is Dance
Many of us have seen and heard of gyms that use their machines to generate electricity, but have you heard about a dance club that uses the dance floor to generate electricity for itself? According to Sustainabledanceclub.com, the “Sustainable...
Day 116- It’s Not Just Chips and a Pickle
As I sit here just finishing up the last few chips of my late lunch, I realized that I am hopelessly addicted to good deli food and sweet iced tea. There is just something about a nice club sandwich made just right. I am a bit crazy and I like mine...
Day 114- Admit One
There are a lot of events going on where I live this weekend. There are a number of NASCAR races, concerts, special outdoor events and other things that I usually end up missing on a regular basis. One thing that we could not miss was Disney on Ice...
