One of my newest addictions is called swapping. Swapping is nothing like shopping because swapping involves a deep appreciation for what I love most: reduce, reuse and repurpose. Shopping on the other hand is purchasing new items from stores that overstock and overproduce. Face it, we are consumers influenced by the market. Consider this. How many of us spend weekends [...]

Have you ever donated anything from your closet? If you haven’t, I highly suggest this practice. We all have stuff. A lot of stuff. We get into the cycle of buying more new stuff and getting rid of old, good stuff. A great resource called The Story of Stuff is a narrative about our consumerist society. You should check it [...]

It came in the mail as a sinful temptation – the Kohl’s sales paper with coupons.  Having started a new job about a month ago, I have been in desperate need of nice business pants. I bought some pants from Walmart not long ago, but those haven’t been too tempting to wear. They are just ugly. I deemed them the [...]

After about a year of blog slumber, I decided to reignite my green blog. I suppose I was just waiting for the right time and the right focus. I decided to kick it off with a bang with my New Year’s Resolution. Recently, my husband and I reviewed our spending habits for 2010 and learned that our family of three [...]