If you’re like me, once you put up all the holiday decorations you can’t even imagine taking them down. How can you even think of recycling Christmas trees and decorations when they make the house look so pretty? Decorating for the holidays transforms my boring living room into a magazine worthy spread. Well, not quite […]
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Last Minute Christmas Decorations
Wasn’t Thanksgiving just yesterday? You’ve got weeks to get all the Christmas decorating and shopping done right!?! Crap, you just looked at the calendar only to realize that Christmas is in a week and aside from the damn Elf on the Shelf that your kids absolutely LOVE and the Christmas tree, you don’t have any […]
The Impossibility of a Zero Waste Lifestyle
It seems that just about every other pin that shows up in my Pinterest feed lately is about minimalism or zero waste living. I know Pinterest returns results based on search criteria but I’m not searching zero waste living because I don’t believe it’s possible, in the literal sense of the term. A zero waste […]
5 Fantastic Ways to Use Old Greeting Cards [that won’t make you pull your hair out]
Who doesn’t like to get a greeting card? I don’t know about you but when I open my mailbox and see something other than catalogs, junk mail, and bills, I get pretty excited! Greeting cards mean someone is thinking of me, little old me, it makes my heart happy! Feel free to send me a […]
13 Ways to Use Pumpkins after Halloween
Halloween is like the Thursday Night Football game of the holiday season. There’s a big lead up to it because it’s the first official holiday of the ‘holiday season’. If you have kids, you will probably go to a pumpkin farm of some kind and spend hours trying to find “the perfect pumpkin” to carve. […]