Making Potato Print Valentines
Last year we showed you how to recycle your magazines or your children’s finger paintings by cutting them into creative Valentines, but we decided to keep life even simpler in 2009. For those of you...
View ArticleBuying Oversized Clothing
Want an eco-friendly, budget friendly solution to keeping your child’s clothing costs in check? Buy big! I’ve found that buying clothes a size or two (or four!) bigger for my son works in a myriad of...
View ArticleSaving Money and The Planet With Reused Easter Baskets
For many families celebrating the holiday, an Easter basket is a once in a lifetime purchase. You may be picking one out for your baby this year for the first time. Why not recycle, save some money,...
View ArticleEconomical Organic Home Gardening
Is organic gardening really all that difficult, or costly? We turned to our experts, Caitlin Blethlen of Growing Gardens and Mara Reynolds of Portland Community Gardens to see just how easy and...
View ArticleMaking Homemade Non-Chlorine Bleach
Mildew is my nemesis, but I much prefer it to the fumes of chlorinated bleach. Even though chlorine is very hard on the environment and our health, it’s found in a wide variety of household...
View ArticleA Simple, Eco-Friendly Solution for Stinky Diapers: Use Hydrogen Peroxide in...
Have you ever pulled supposedly clean diapers out of the washer only to find that they’re nearly as stinky as when they went in? What’s the problem? It could be a variety of factors including the...
View ArticleSuddenly Frugal By Necessity, Not By Choice
Upon hearing that my husband was laid off a few weeks ago, both of us found ourselves surprised by our own relief. Obviously for many families losing a job can be tremendously stressful—especially...
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