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How to get rid of stuff

This is an AWESOME reference site:
http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/
Need to get rid of something? Anything? Anything you can think of is posted here. Check it out.

Some help on shopping without buying new

Dust off your library card. One of the best uses of our tax dollars. Use public libraries for books, cd’s, books on tape, magazines, internet access, videos and dvds!
Be a one-car family. Replace a second car or even a primary car with a bus pass (www.metrotransit.org) and Hourcar membership (www.hourcar.org). Use Hourcar for middle-of-the-day appointments [...]

Sweet memorial quilt from the county fair!

So this is kinda creepy and I don’t know that this was made with all recycled materials, but I love the use of his ties!!  I think it won third prize.

the power of the buck

Yes you can’t even buy a freaking pie without it being encased in a huge clam of plastic. It already comes in a tin plate for crying out loud – why do you need to suffocate it? You can’t recycle that stuff either. I’ve got a bag of that kind of stuff [...]

The Truth About Plastic

photo: Kang Kim for TIME
This week’s time magazine has a very good article about a woman who has taken on an experiment, much like ours, to eradicate plastic from her life. Not an easy task.
This article an interesting and scarey look into how much plastics has become an unavoidable part of our lives. READ THE [...]

It Does Change You

Just returned from a 4th of July trip to Missouri. We stayed with friends on their 92 acre blueberry farm. Stopped at a junk store and scoped garage sales in search of backyard chairs and a small table for the yard.

I can say this shift of buying nothing new does change a mindset in so [...]

I’m waffling…

So.  I really, really want to be able to bring my dog to work with me again. He was our office dog but since I’ve been biking, he has been completely dejected.  I tried him in the kid’s Burly, but it was designed for kids and his head was smushed when he stood up.  He [...]

Freecycle.org

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,531 groups with 5,388,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local [...]

What I COULD’A done was plan: on the Go-Go

The Learning—plan ahead. If I had allowed more time, I could have gone to a used book store to look for the book “The Little Prince” or bought it used online from Amazon. I can see another thing I’m up against, as I am certain others are, is the pace of life. On the [...]