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Make a good cleaner! Using lemons is cheaper and non-toxic. They are versatile – and they smell great!
Use the juice of one lemon and water in a spray bottle as a versatile cleaner – clean counters, walls, sinks, even wood (but test a small area first!).
A lemon juice and baking soda paste will take the [...]
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I hate packaging. I hate the crinkling of granola bar wrappers. I hate the plastic bags inside of cereal boxes. What to do?
Stop buying it! We do not have curbside trash pick up here in rural Vermont. Instead, every Saturday, we pile the trash into the back of the truck and take it to [...]
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Whether you pay for your water or not, saving water is both a frugal and green thing to do.
1. Turn off the tap. Very simple. When brushing your teeth or anything else, turn the tap off! The average bathroom faucet runs 2 gallons of water per minute – do you really need 2 gallons to [...]
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Good for him!
From Mothering Magazine:
“British children’s author Sean Taylor, winner of the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 2007, refused to accept a check as part of his recent award, presented in December. Taylor, who won the prize for his book When a Monster is Born, said that he could not accept the money because of his [...]
