The baby steps challenge I set for myself a year ago last July was to start composting. It had become more necessary when we started receiving a CSA delivery and there were a lot more food scraps. I’m happy to report that this challenge has become such a habit that I can’t imagine throwing things […]
Results of June challenge #2: Walk every day
Okay, it’s time to walk the walk. I was amused when I reread this morning’s post about how I did (not so great) with the June Food Stamp Challenge, and saw that I said I would write about my other June challenge, to “talk a walk every single day” in a later post. I didn’t […]
Update on last year’s baby steps challenge: air dry laundry
Last June, I wrote this post about my baby steps challenge for the month: air dry the laundry. Two weeks later, when I wrote this update, I was convinced the habit would become part of my daily life. Things didn’t quite go as planned… I faithfully hung our laundry out to dry for about three […]
June challenge update
It’s Day Nine of the challenge I set for myself for June: to take a walk every day. Click here if you didn’t read that post. I have managed to take a walk every day so far, even when I had to do it instead of the gym, or in addition to yoga. I love […]
Will the junk mail ever stop?
It’s time to check in with my very first baby steps challenge: stop those catalogs and junk mail once and for all. This photo represents all the junk mail we received during the past month, a year after I originally took on the challenge. It’s significantly less than we used to get, but I still […]
June Challenges: walking and saving
I’ve set myself a 30-day challenge this month of taking a walk every day. That’s it. Simple. I don’t think it will be that difficult because I already walk about four or five times a week, but I’m curious how I’ll feel if I walk every single day. There are no rules except that “walking” […]