Today whilst scrolling through Instagram ( I love that little explore feature) I clicked on a couple of interesting pictures and they mentioned the little things they were grateful for. Instant mod booster. Reading other peoples blessings makes you, or at least it makes me, take a moment to reflect; what has been the little things… Continue reading the little things
Here we are, the Friday before the kids go back to school and more than half way through our buy nothing month experiment. We’ve only made a couple of detours from our set rules; we had to grab brekkie on the go last week when hubby and I slept through our alarms and had to… Continue reading day #18
I’m content, happy, excited, peaceful…want to start riot. A fun riot..you know with ice cream and water slides and dance music. I’ve been feeling this way for the past couple of months and I wasn’t sure where it was coming from. This morning I decided to go for a walk. It’ s gorgeous outside and… Continue reading maybe a bit of a rebel yell
Last night a weather system moved through our part of the world and left us with a glorious amount of snow! The result: snow day! *Honourable mention for this snow day goes to my hubby, who at 6 am this morning tried ploughing our snow packed street with his little ’87 cabrio VW convertible… Continue reading snow day!
Last night the family and I went to the movies. One of our favourite things to do together. We saw Kung Fu Panda 3, in case you were wondering…it’s a good movie…in case you were wondering. We did an ok job at zero-wasting the occasion. I say ok, because hubby bought a pretzel at the… Continue reading becoming one of ‘those’ people
I pitched an idea to my hubby as we started our zero waste journey; what about a buy nothing month? He looked at me with reservation and asked me to be more specific. Here’s what I proposed, oh and we decided that March would be a good time: spend nothing on new or used non-essentail… Continue reading buy nothing…for a month…sort of
So here’s some of the zero waste crafty things I’ve made lately. I’ve been teaching myself how to crochet via YouTube. I had a bunch of leftover yarn from various projects from over the years that I’ve schlepped around from place to place. So I made a blanket for my son’s rooms. It’s not the… Continue reading i like to make things
We just got back from a whirl wind family day weekend in Sauble Beach and Blue Mountain. It was our first trip zero-wasting and it was a fail on that part. We had lots of fun though; skating, walking through Blue Mountain Village, an evening swim outdoors in a lovely heated pool, and spending time… Continue reading family day trip
I just started listening to The Minimalists podcast recently and I love it. It’s a weekly cast where they, obviously, focus on the minimalist life. Their podcast about Stuff gave me the kick in the ass I needed after the gift-giving craziness of the holidays and the slow down of winter. One of their… Continue reading quick little post
*I should preface this post by saying, I don’t want to discourage anybody from trying out the waste free lifestyle…a shift in our consumerism needs to change if we ever expect to keep this planet…I think this is just growing pains and we’re new to this and we’re figuring it out as we go and… Continue reading rant
the lake life 