ECO FRIENDLY COLLEGE DORM SHOPPING LIST I’m going to get straight to the point because most people skip this part anyway. (Don’t worry, I don’t take offense. I do the same thing) I’m about to launch my youngest baby bird out of the nest and into the wild world of college dorm life. I want…
Dirty Santa, Clean Earth: Navigating Eco-Friendly Holidays Like a Pro
It’s that time of the year – holiday madness is upon us! We’re getting bombarded with TikToks and Reels showing you crap you don’t need, telling you that the more you buy the more you’ll be loved. We hear over and over again how the holidays are about love, kindness, spending time together, but all…
Happy Earth Day 2023
Happy Earth Week! Or Earth Day or Earth Month. Yup, they’re all a thing, but if you’re a die hard, dark green eco-warrior like me you don’t care because every day is a celebration of the big blue and green mama. In this house it’s AEAYR (All Earth All Year Round), but this time of…
The Gift of Wood…it’s not just for beavers
I am and always have been a terrible gift-giver. Gift cards, girly bath stuff, a necklace…those were always my go-to gifts. All of them safe, but unfortunately also rather generic. Back when I was a wee lass (that means a lot younger) I think my gift-giving peaked when I wanted to buy my grandmother something…
Happy Earth Day 2022
In my best Golden Girls Sophia voice…”Picture it, Washington, D.C. 1990, it was the 20th anniversary of Earth Day and I was right there on the National Mall standing shoulder to shoulder with Burt Reynolds”. OK, so Burt Reynolds wasn’t really there, at least not anywhere I could see him, but now I’m picturing the…
It’s time for your Closet-oscopy
4 truths and a lie… The average person has 148 pieces of clothing. Clothes can take up to 40 years to decompose The amount of money people spend on clothes, footwear and jewelry each year is equivalent to the combined GDP of the 126 poorest countries in the world. Aristotle coined the phrase “does a…
Scrufah says…Challenge Accepted!
“I love a challenge.” It’s the rallying cry behind a lot of crappy decisions. Let’s take the morally questionable and sexually philanthropic decade that I like to refer to as “My 20s.” There were certainly more than a few challenges during that time of my life, but most of my friends and I seemed to…
The Perfect 10
Previously…on a very special Living Clean and Dirty podcast. OK, everyone who knows me knows I love to recycle. Whether it’s tin cans, shampoo bottles or toilet paper it doesn’t really matter to me. In the spirit of recycling I have taken my 10-Step Commandments from our podcast and recycled/reused here in one nice neat…