You can always identify a Pacific Northwesterner by how much we talk about the weather. Especially when that weather is a glorious and brilliant full sun day near eighty degrees on back to back days in March after a ridiculously cold and snowy February. If you're sick about me talking about the weather so much…
Somehow, as of March 1st, it has been a full two years since I began my clothes buying ban. Two years without purchasing a single item of clothing, shoes, jewelry, or accessories. When I first embarked on this journey early in 2017, I expected that I would coast into that first year of no purchase…
Considering how much I am into gardening these days, you would think that I would be all about composting at home as well. I've even had a number of people ask me to write about my composting process. Here's the (not so) secret: I don't do any composting myself, and I never have, other than…
This week at work was insanely busy and full, as was the week before, but with the added bonus of multiple evening meetings. We worked two half weeks in a row thanks to the Hawaii trip and then another half week after that thanks to the inability to leave our house after the snow, though…
I recently got back from a trip where yet another Airbnb we stayed in provided a Keurig and single use k-cups for coffee making instead of a more traditional coffee maker. While I made my coffee in the French press I brought along with us, it got me thinking about how to travel more sustainably…
I realize that I've been on this road to sustainability much of my life and have had years and years to slowly adjust myself toward a zero waste lifestyle, but not everyone lives and breathes it the way I have. As much as I hope I can be an inspiration, I know that just like…
When Budget Epicurean first approached me with the idea of her guest post on zero waste, I didn't realize that it would grow into the start of a whole series on my blog, but I did immediately realize I wanted to spend year two writing a lot more about sustainability. And I have, including one…
The guest posts I've featured so far this year have so far all been sustainability and zero waste focused, which has been my intent since Budget Epicurean pitched me the idea for the first one. Today's post, on the other hand, is about a topic that often overlaps with those but is really its own…
When I first started writing this blog, there were a few other bloggers who I connected with right away because it was obvious that we shared a lot of the same values: financial independence, of course, but also looking at that and everything else through a lens of sustainability first and foremost. Kristine at Frugasaurus,…
The natural gas explosion I mentioned last week ended up being a much smaller deal than the headlines first made it sound, and everything is back to normal as far as garbage service and home natural gas usage. Whenever some acute situation requires changes to daily lives, be it a break in the natural gas…