I’ve never been a fan of long car trips and by the way, I define long as over 2 hours. So for me, a successful road trip with tweens would be a less than 3 hour trip ending with smiles on everyone’s faces. I grew up in Virginia and every summer, we made the 10+ […]
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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. […]
11 Awesome Ways To Dispose of Old CDs
You’ve got a pile in your closet but how what are some ways to dispose of old cds? They are probably never going to get listened to again because everything’s gone digital and who even has a CD player anymore? CD cases are made of polystyrene #6 and CDs are made from polycarbonate #7, neither […]
How to Recycle Christmas Trees and Decorations
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 […]
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 […]