That’s a photo of our produce scraps from the past week or so. I’ve been saving them because I knew composting was going to be the July baby steps challenge. Yes, I know that rubberbands aren’t compost-able. Or are they? I have to admit I’m intimidated by the whole idea of composting. I don’t live […]
Buy Nothing New mid-year report
Yesterday I realized that I’m exactly halfway through my year of following The Compact. As I looked at a couple of my first posts, I couldn’t believe how differently things have gone from what I expected when I embarked upon this journey. The woman who set off on a panicked shopping spree for the perfect […]
June baby steps challenge: progress report
That’s me, hanging out laundry in our own backyard. The baby steps challenge for June is to air dry the laundry. And as you can tell by the smile on my face, I LOVE hanging out the laundry. I’m joking. It was okay, but I’m not smiling with glee over it. That would be a […]
June baby steps challenge: air dry laundry
That’s my husband, and that’s me in the background hanging the laundry. But this isn’t our house, this is the London home we stayed in last summer when we did a house swap with a couple there. It was fabulous: they stayed in our home in Los Angeles and we stayed in theirs in London. […]
May baby steps challenge: mid-month report
A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about May’s baby steps challenge, which is to stop those catalogs and junk mail once and for all. We get WAY too many catalogs, and even before I joined The Compact, I only ordered from a fraction of the ones we receive. I’ll be working on other […]
May "baby steps" challenge: stop those catalogs and junk mail once and for all
A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about how even though I’d joined The Compact and pledged to Buy Nothing New this year, I don’t feel like a good role model for green living. And I vowed to Go Green this year, using the baby steps method, which works best for me if I […]