Recent Posts Tagged With 'eco living'

• Bad Habits!

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 13:50 in frugal living, Simple living, eco living

  As I’ve moved towards a simpler, greener lifestyle there are certain things that I’ve tried to do, that make a small difference to how I live my life. Not massive things, just little stuff. Lately I’m finding myself slipping back ...

• 52 Simple Organsing Projects: Go Paper Free

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 01:30 in Simple living, eco living, 52 organising projects for 2009

  photo credit: jenica 26This organising projects follows on from the previous post about incoming paperwork and so is a little different to normal.How many paper bills do you receive each month? Can you go paper free with these companies and reduce th...

• The Stuff Fairy: Follow Up

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 05:45 in Simple living, organising, eco living

  This is a picture of the amount of stuff that's arrived in our house this week. There is no stuff fairy, it's just people that created all this. Me included.It was half term this week, so no school stuff, but I did have a birthday.The full list:Post-...

• The stuff fairy

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 03:01 in Simple living, eco living

  I seem to be fighting a constant battle with stuff. However much I de-clutter and organise, stuff still appears. Is there a stuff fairy?I know that I bring a little stuff into the house, for example, I went to a conference this week and bought home t...

• February Mini Goals

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 13:26 in Simple living, eco living

  Moving to a simpler, greener lifestyle is all about baby steps and at the moment I'm trying to do too much all at once. In order to help myself, I'm going to set mini goals every month, much like some other bloggers, and see if this helps.February Mi...

• Stuff and more stuff

  Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 00:42 in eco living

  I had the pleasure of volunteering at a charity shop for a day this week and my was it eye opening. I'm not sure if I was really naive before but the amount of 'stuff' in just this one shop, although it was quite a large shop, really blew my mind.The...

• Precycling

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 01:01 in eco living

  There's an excellent article in the guardian today about precycling, cutting out the packaging in the first place - ''Precycling is the practice of reducing waste by attempting to avoid accumulating it in the first place. Precyclers try to cut out as...

• Making the move to eco friendly laundry

  Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 02:09 in eco living

  Saving money and buying Eco friendly doesn't always go and in hand, sometimes it does, like using vinegar and baking soda for cleaning or eliminating fabric conditioner from your laundry cycles, but over the years it would be fair to say that most Ec...

• Back with more determination

  Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 13:35 in Simple living, eco living

  Well we're back from a lovely holiday in The Algarve and I feel totally rested, however having all that spare time has given me more time to think about stuff, the usual stuff for me, simple living, saving money, paying off the mortgage, and eco livi...