On our way back home one day, we stopped at the Salvation Army in Loris and I was genuinely surprised at what I found. This will be one to revisit multiple times this year because first, it’s close to home and second, I bought three brand name items for under $11, and third, it was a prime example of a [...]

One of the best websites for green information is Earth911.com You can find just about anything on here, from your local recycling center to how to recycle a CFL lightbulb. Earth 911.com is chock full of the green stuff. www.earth911.com Earth911.com specializes in providing consumers with accessible and actionable recycling information across the country. The free Recycling Directory is accurate and comprehensive and contains [...]

Everyone has published a Holiday Gift Idea List, but what about an Annual Gift Idea List? Why create a list just for the holidays, when there is a build-up of last minute stress and no money? My husband and I created a Christmas account, but even that doesn’t help us in the very end. An Annual Gift Idea List combines [...]

Trying to get of old wooden pallets, textiles, steel drums or whatever? If your company generates a lot of a specific type of trash on a regular basis, you can always post it online to find a match. My husband shared this website with me and it’s very intriguing. It’s like a personal ad for your trash, except instead of putting [...]

As a part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, my friend and I are splitting the costs of a share of crops from a local farm. I have to give her all the credit for starting this because she asked me. Of course, we have no idea how it works or what to expect, so she initially emailed the [...]

Although I will be purchasing clothes from second-hand stores, I still want to remain in style. I’ve come up with the idea for a Style Match, where I will be checking fashion magazines for the newest colors, trends and styles, and then looking for the outfit at second-hand stores. Something for me to keep in mind while “green” shopping during [...]

I’m not a fan of chachka. Chachka quietly multiples in your house until you: A) move and have to pack it all up or B) go on a closet cleaning spree. Chachka is defined as a cheap, showy trinket. When I was single, I used to purchase all kinds of chachka and I truly believed that it made me feel [...]

A quick store visit because our spouses were waiting in the car, but the Goodwill in Cornelius, NC was my first second-hand store visit of 2011. Along with my best friend, Robyn, we ventured into the store, which is known for receiving “really good” donations from local wealthy people. First, I immediately went to the white shirts, hoping for that “essential” [...]

As a child you have been taught to share. My child is four and she knows that it is proper to share with her friends, whether its a book, a toy and even clothes. She struggles with it, but in the end, it’s just stuff. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the word “share” as a verb means to use [...]

Like most parents, my child’s bedroom is filled all kinds of unknowns. Unknowns meaning toys, clothes, shoes, and items that we just have no clue how it got there or where it came from. As a green parent, I don’t care much for junk and moving into a new house has been a major purging process for our family. We’ve [...]