organic living

$10 For You To Spend At My New Favorite Online Grocery Store

March 12, 2012

I have no idea how I’m just now discovering Vitacost, but I’m pretty darn excited about it.  Keep reading and I’ll tell you all about it – including how you can get $10 to spend there on your own groceries!  I’ve been focusing on our grocery bill this year, working to reduce the amount we [...]

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My Recycled Kitchen Scrubbie

March 1, 2012

The scrubbie I use at the kitchen sink has been dead for quite a while.  Today it fell apart and I could no longer ignore the fact that I probably should have replaced it about a month ago.  My next shopping trip is scheduled for March 12th.  That’s a long time from now.  And I [...]

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Our Frugal And Nutritional Breakfast

February 24, 2012

There are no boxes of cereal in our house.  No frozen waffles or toaster pastries either.  Sometimes there are homemade muffins in the freezer, but we usually eat those as dessert or a snack.  Breakfast around here is an oat/quinoa mixture that my husband makes for us every morning while I’m cleaning the house sleeping. [...]

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Back To Basics In The Shower

February 23, 2012

A couple weeks ago, I decided to make my own body scrub out of salt and oil.  I’ve been using it ever since, and I love it.  My “recipe” is very simple: I spent $3 on a big container of coarse sea salt, $8 on a large bottle of almond oil, and used olive oil [...]

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Give New Life To Empty Glass Jars

January 16, 2012

Several years ago, I got rid of nearly all of my plastic food storage containers.  I have several pyrex dishes with lids and lidded casserole dishes that I use to store large quantities of leftovers.  But most of the time, I use empty glass jars.  My freezer is full of repurposed glass jars holding things [...]

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Living Without A Dryer

August 29, 2011

When I asked recently for reader feedback in terms of what you wanted me to write about, one reader asked for a post about drying laundry in the winter without a dryer.  We’ve been in our current house (sans dryer) for more than two years now, and the last year we lived in our old [...]

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Fun In The Sun – No Burns Allowed

July 27, 2011

Continuing on the grapeseed oil moisturizer theme, let’s talk about sunscreen.  I have mostly Irish ancestry, with blue eyes and fair skin that freckles (and burns) easily.  The up-side of being a burner instead of a tanner is that I learned very early in life that baking myself in the sun wasn’t a good idea. [...]

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My New Favorite Moisturizer

July 25, 2011

Several years ago, I went through all of my personal care products and tossed nearly everything.  Anything with parabens, phthalates, artificial fragrances, dyes, sodium laureth sulfate, etc.  I kept just a few items, and it’s made my daily routine much simpler too.  Not to mention the fact that the air quality in our bathroom is [...]

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Non-toxic Oven Cleaner

February 16, 2011

Confession time:  We’ve lived in our current house for nearly 20 months, and until today, I had never cleaned the oven.  I use the oven maybe 3 or 4 times a month, and the bottom of it was looking pretty grubby.  Cleaning the oven is not particularly high on my list of things to do, [...]

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A Big Boy Bed

February 9, 2011

When our son was born, we bought an organic crib mattress for him.  He slept in our bed for a few months, and still comes in from time to time to sleep with us during the night, but most of the time he sleeps on his crib mattress.  Last year, we got a wooden toddler [...]

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