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It had been many years since I last went camping, but in the last few months I have been aching for more time in the mountains surrounded by trees. Living on the coast in Southern California makes it difficult to get my dose of green, so I’ve been pestering hubby for weeks to [...]
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Lessons from our camping weekend
Posted in Frugal, Green Living, Happiness, Out in Nature, Simple Living on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Food Waste Reduction Challenge
Posted in Challenges, Frugal, Green Living, Simple Living on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Since Hubby and I are home for the entire month and not traveling anywhere, I’ve decided to get involved with a monthly challenge over at Crunchy Chicken. The challenge this month is to reduce the amount of food waste in our household.
We don’t deliberately waste food and we always make an effort to turn food [...]
Sustainability Changes that Save Money – What we need to improve
Posted in Frugal, Green Living, Personal Finances on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In yesterday’s post I listed Sustainability Changes That Save Money which we have managed to successfully include in our life. Today I need to admit that there are many, mnay things that we need to improve upon.
Barter and trade with neighbors and friends.
[D] I’ve thought about it…does that count? Yesterday, Hubby and I were actually brainstorming [...]
Sustainability Changes that Save Money – How are we doing?
Posted in Frugal, Green Living, Personal Finances on January 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The future of radio
Posted in Frugal, Happiness on January 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I love listening to music. When I’m in a particular mood, finding just the right song makes me feel like I have my very own soundtrack to my life. Unfortunately, I have great difficulty finding music I love. I have very different tastes to the rest of my friends so just coming across a song I love [...]
Woo Hoo! I snagged a bargain flight to Australia
Posted in Frugal, Travel on January 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In September I am flying home to Australia for my sisters wedding. I had planned to book my flights in about April, but this morning I found out about a sale on Qantas flights from the US to Australia. I managed to get two return flights from LA to Brisbane for $799 each! That’s less than [...]
Travel and Simple Living
Posted in Frugal, Happiness, Personal Finances, Simple Living, Travel on December 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A lot of people travel to get away from it all. To leave their stressful jobs behind and to escape to a new location filled with fun activities, idyllic scenery and great food. Often these same people who want to escape their stress manage to fill their vacation with so many activities that they almost [...]
