Live Green | Declutter | Simplify Life
It’s official! I survived! We recently celebrated our youngest daughter’s 18th birthday so I can proudly say I am now the mom of two young adults. As I paused to reflect on the last 21 years, I made a list of my top 10 parenting tips to share with you.
If you’re just starting your family, I hope these little nuggets of wisdom will be valuable. If you’re embarking on the teenage years, just know that everything will be okay.
We buy a lot of personal care and beauty products, and many of them are unnecessary. Today’s post has 12 amazing coconut oil beauty hacks to simplify your life—and save you money!
Read on to learn how a $10 jar of coconut oil replaces 12 products I used to buy and easily saves me hundreds of dollars a year.
Today is Pack Rat Day – a day for all of us to take time to declutter. If you’re a regular reader, you know that my theme for 2021 is decluttering. With that in mind, I had to celebrate this day with something special.
Pack Rat Day feels like the perfect day to launch a series I’ve been thinking about for a while now. Welcome to the first edition of Clutter Tales!
What do cucumbers have in common with cosmetics, toys, electronics accessories and many online purchases? If you guessed too much packaging, you’re right!
As someone who strives to reduce waste and live a more sustainable life, excessive packaging is a personal pet peeve of mine. We are starting to see some improvement in this area, but change is slow.
We’re almost at the end of another school year. If you’re looking for eco-friendly and creative ways to show appreciation for your child’s teacher, read on for 10 ideas for teacher gifts that are worthy of a gold star. Even better, they’re kind to the Earth, too!
It’s Stop Food Waste Day – a day to bring awareness to a problem that contributes to many of the world’s challenges.
Today, I’ll share some alarming stats on food waste and why it’s something we all need to be concerned about. Then, I’ve got 12 easy and practical ways you can cut food waste.
Today is Get Organized Day. To mark the occasion, I’ve got 5 easy ways to help you organize your blogging life. If you could use some help getting organized, download my free blog planning calendar and content creation checklist.
Blogging is a lot of work! Although I’ve been blogging for almost 2 years, I usually stay away from writing posts like this because I don’t think of myself as a blogging expert. But, I do consider myself an organizing expert so this is one area where I can share my expertise with the blogging community.
Tomorrow is Earth Day. The theme for Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth. To mark the occasion, I’m delighted to share “Every Day is Earth Day” – a poem written by my friend Pat Keachie for my Blog Takeover series last year.
I’ve also got a roundup of my favourite posts with tips to help you lead a greener, more sustainable life.
For years, parents and educators have touted university as the only path to “a good life”. Working in the skilled trades is often viewed as a last resort for students who aren’t smart enough for university or college.
Today, I look at why we need to change that view, and why careers in skilled trades are an excellent choice for students of all academic ability. Plus, some ideas on how parents, educators, governments and employers can attract more young people into the trades.
This year, instead of giving up the usual things like chocolate or potato chips for Lent, I decided to do something I had been thinking about for a while – a Buy Nothing Challenge. How hard would it be to avoid all non-essential purchases for six weeks?
In today’s post, I’ll recap my experience and share what I learned from the Buy Nothing Challenge.
