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The money will just roll in…..

A while ago when I was trying to fix my back knots, I took a couple of really hot baths. It’s funny, but I don’t really enjoy baths -there’s only so much soaking/reading/staring at the ceiling/pretending you’re a mermaid a person can take. (If there were a t.v. in the bathroom it would [...]

Way to go, Samsung.

Brad is gone. Booo.
I started to tackle the giant accumulation of cardboard boxes downstairs that just get thrown down the basement steps. If you know anybody who needs some moving boxes, I can hook them up. The other giant pieces got cut up into manageable sizes for the recycling box, and [...]

This seems reasonable.

I am astonished that I, Eco Girl, have such a bad glass and cup habit. Seriously, on a weekend I use at least two cups a day and three or more glasses. That is ridiculous. We’ve been home for three days this holiday weekend and I’ve run at least three loads of [...]

You just want to wear a sheep.

My friend Kate is growing a little tired of my talking about wool things. I had already told her about the sweaters, and on the playground I was putting on my new (scratchy) wool gloves from Wal*Mart and was talking about my socks. She started singing the classic preschool ditty above, with the relevant [...]

Put your hat on

Not much got done around here this weekend, but we did manage to get the insulation plug put in the attic fan. The high this weekend was 38 degrees, and since I caved and started up the heat on Friday, darned if I wasn’t going to keep that heat in the house!!

It was the [...]

Contents of package 2

Bags!! More reusable bags. I ‘justified’ my purchase by rationalizing that I had given away some old ones, so of course I should replace them. The reality is, I was going to just buy a couple, but Chicobags had new styles, so I was helpless to resist. Once again, I want [...]

No Shame

I’ll see your aluminum-foil-wrapped windows, Beth, and raise you…. bubble wrap.
I’ve been doing some internet searches for cheap-o winter ideas, and there are several folks out there who say that bubble wrap can significantly increase the R-value of old windows. (‘R’ stands for ‘Ridiculous’, in this case.)
So, I tried a test bit on the lower [...]