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Workouts, Diaper Covers, and My Sunday Round Up

December 14, 2008

It is a cold snowy Sunday here today.  Perfect for sitting on the couch sewing felted wool sweaters into diaper covers.  Later on we’ll head to the gym, but other than that we’ll be staying indoors today.  I’ve been using my Moby Wrap to exercise with our son lately, and it’s working great.  Our gym [...]

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Frugal Because We Want To Be

December 11, 2008

I got a comment today on my post about our financial goals that I thought was worth further discussion.  Dave wrote: “I don’t know much about you but it seems like you folks have plenty of money. Anyone know of a blog directed toward the working poor? Somebody making / surviving on $30K a year?” [...]

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The Cheapest Health Food

August 25, 2008

I’ve written before about how much I love sprouts.  They’re about as close to a perfect food as you can get, as far as nutrition goes, and most of them are pretty tasty as well.  I eat small amounts of sprouts on sandwiches and salads, but by far the majority of the sprouts we grow [...]

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Update On The Hydroponic Garden

August 19, 2008

My husband has been working every evening for the last couple weeks, getting the hydroponic garden up and running.  The goal is to automate as much as we can, so that the upkeep going forward is minimal.  Tonight he plumbed in a water line coming from our under-sink water filter, going into the crawl space.  [...]

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Using Glass Instead Of Plastic

August 9, 2008

I’ve been environmentally conscious for years.  But ever since my husband and I started talking about having a baby (and especially since I got pregnant last year), I’ve been more and more concerned with avoiding toxins and chemical crud.  If money were no object, I’d love to build a super-green house with no chemicals in [...]

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Thrifty Green Thursday

August 7, 2008

It’a Thrift Green Thursday time at Green Baby Guide.  They want to know what we’ve done to be thrifty and green, and I figure that fits my life just about perfectly.  So what have we done?  It’s been an evolving process for us over the years.  I was raised to be very thrifty, and pretty [...]

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A Hydroponic Garden

August 1, 2008

We’ve made another step towards becoming self-sufficient.  Yesterday we bought everything we need to set up a 4 foot square hydroponic garden in our crawl space.  This came after much discussion and research – we decided that the sizable upfront cost ($800+) will be a good investment that will pay for itself many times over.  [...]

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Nearly Finished Painting The House

July 27, 2008

We’re so close to the end of our painting project. We got our HOA to give us an extension to the end of the month, and it looks like we’re going to make it. We’ll probably have to spend two evenings this week and then it will be done. (actually, it looks like about two [...]

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You Can Do A Lot With That $40

July 17, 2008

My two sisters in law and their five children are visiting us this week.  Today some of us went to a local amusement park, which I much preferred to the big Six Flags style park we went to a few days ago.  There were seven of us today, including the baby.  This park allowed us [...]

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Making It Work

July 15, 2008

Before our son was born, my mother and I made about two dozen diapers for him. We followed a pattern we found online, and made the medium size diapers. We thought they would fit him for about 4 – 6 months. When he was born, he was just under 7 lbs. Now he’s 13.5 lbs, [...]

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