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 [...]

Let’s face it, DVDs take up a lot of shelf space. My husband has decided to digitize most of our favorites, then we purged the rest. I ended up with 16 DVDs to get part with. However, I didn’t want to donate them, with no return value, or list them on eBay, only to sell them for a dollar. So [...]

So a Tweet told me to check out a kids clothing swap website. It’s called ThredUp. Basically you swap boxes of kids clothes for a small fee. You can also swap tops, books or media. You can list your own kids clothes and get rid of them for free (shipping and all). The only time you ever pay is when [...]

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 [...]