By Richard My wife and I have repainted our entire home with VOC free paint as well as removed all of the carpeting from the house. We are also going to be using a cloth [...]
By Randy I just started to recycle my empty spring water bottles and was startled by the amount of bottles that I collected in the recycling bin. Then I looked into making my own clean [...]
By Mary Jo I use the water from my dehumidifier to water my special plants especially during our town’s odd/even water ban. With the recent humid weather in the Northeast my morning glories, daylilies and [...]
Walter On Father’s Day, my wife and I enjoyed our first celebration of this day by picnicking with our one year old son, Jackson. While I tried to eat my lunch and keep Jack from [...]
It’s official. We are no longer buying wasteful plastic utensils thanks to our office manager. Silverware has arrived into our kitchen drawers, and a dish drying rack appeared on the countertop one day to accomodate [...]
Mercia Tapping We have a north facing den, which in winter gets abysmally chilly. And, much to my chagrin, my husband has been prone to putting on space heaters at full blast and running up [...]
Mercia Tapping As much as I dislike doing dishes or using the best china for casual dining, which is an invitation to use paper plates – I have deleted them from our shopping list. Truth [...]
Mercia Tapping I was fascinated to read in an English newspaper last week that in a nation-wide poll about their ideal home, the English no longer wanted a stately historic home or even a castle. [...]
Mercia Tapping Do any of you have a partner who insists on heating the great outdoors by having the windows thrown open all day while the furnace is blazing during the heating season? With the [...]