Archive for the 'at home' Category

Stop Unwanted Phone Books

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

In Seattle if you want to stop getting unwanted phone books the city has made it very easy to accomplish this. Go to www.seattle.gov/stopphonebooks I just did it and it took me 2 minutes.

Financial Sustainability: Our Attempt at Living It

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

As we have come to realize that living a financially sustainable life is important to us being able to living a holistically sustainable life, we have arrived at a method that works for us…most of the time. We have put all our debt on a dry erase board with the total at the top and [...]

Financial Sustainability in Our Home

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Kendall and I have been working on paying off our debt.  We have quite a bit of it.  Most of it is student loans, but there are other significant bits of debt too.  It has accumulated over the years, in various ways for various reasons.  While I have never felt that living in debt was okay, [...]

Window Boxes

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

We wanted to make some window boxes and we knew that our friends over at The Urban Farmers Almanac had some wood leftover from a deck project last summer. We decided to see if we could get together and make some sustainability magic happen. It did. Oh did it. Not only did they have an [...]

Sustainable Home Decorating on a Budget

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Over the past year I have come to the realization that many people I know have an uncanny knack for something, not that unlike a superpower.? Dan and Alicia have this amazing ability to find anything.? It is almost as if God has sent angels for the sole purpose of bestowing them with free gifts.? [...]