When someone brings up trying to reduce their household waste with zero waste living and one of the first things they ask is me is why does it have to be so strict, expensive, and hard?
I understand how you can get that impression seeing photos online of DIY everything, people using plastic free as a synonym for zero waste (plastic free living is a noble goal but is not the same thing, ) and mason jars full of one year’s trash, but those are the rare, edited for the Internet exceptions, and not the reality.
I get it. I truly do. Local laws prohibit me from using my own containers at bulk bins, my farm markets are only open during the summer, and frankly both of those options are more expensive than Aldi where I can do a monthly grocery shop in under an hour. However, over time I was able to reduce my household weekly trash to a small grocery store size bag a week.
How do we do it?
Sunday, December 15, 2019
How to Go Zero Waste on a Budget: Use the Rule of Half
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 507
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 506
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Condo Blues World Headquarters and Thunderdome!
This year our family broke a decorating record by having our Christmas tree decorated after we came home from Thanksgiving dinner! Take a look.
Our tree is actually a rosemary bush our Thanksgiving host and hostess gave us at the end the evening. I decided to have a laugh and decorated it a few German Christmas ornaments friends gave us on their vist last fall. I' bought the Viking gnomes from a friends shop at the renaissance festival as a birthday present to myself after admiring them for the last 2 summers.
We need to put our Christmas tree up soon. This one's not going to last long for as much as we've been using it to cook with fresh rosemary. Nom! Nom!
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This year our family broke a decorating record by having our Christmas tree decorated after we came home from Thanksgiving dinner! Take a look.
Other houses have Christmas gnomes. We have Vikings!
Our tree is actually a rosemary bush our Thanksgiving host and hostess gave us at the end the evening. I decided to have a laugh and decorated it a few German Christmas ornaments friends gave us on their vist last fall. I' bought the Viking gnomes from a friends shop at the renaissance festival as a birthday present to myself after admiring them for the last 2 summers.
We need to put our Christmas tree up soon. This one's not going to last long for as much as we've been using it to cook with fresh rosemary. Nom! Nom!
Be sure to pop over to my food blog Lazy Budget Chef and enter our $175 Amazon Gift Card Givewawy after you've shared and read all of the amazing party posts!
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019
$175 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!
December is here and we are in full swing getting ready for the December holidays! Woohoo!
I'm always looking for giveaway opportunities to thank you for being part of my blog community
s community. A bunch of my blogger friends want to find a way to reward their readers in the same way.
We got together and thought what would people like? The December holidays are coming up. Everyone has a different opinion on what is and is not the perfect gift. Many of you don't celebrate the same holidays as I do. We thought....
What would you do with an extra $175 to spend this holiday season?
That would buy a whole lotta cookies like the Peppermint Gingerbread Cookie Ball Recipe I wrote on my food blog Lazy Budget Chef.
Peppermint Gingerbread Balls! Nom! Nom! Nom!
Wait. What?! You didn't know that I have a food blog?! Well I DO!
Well know is the perfect opportunity to check it out! Not only do I have a fantastic cookie recipe for you to try but you can ENTER TO WIN A $175 AMAZON GIFT CARD RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!
Don't dawdle! The $175 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway runs from December 2 - December 16, 2019 on Lazy Budget Chef!
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I'm always looking for giveaway opportunities to thank you for being part of my blog community
s community. A bunch of my blogger friends want to find a way to reward their readers in the same way.
We got together and thought what would people like? The December holidays are coming up. Everyone has a different opinion on what is and is not the perfect gift. Many of you don't celebrate the same holidays as I do. We thought....
What would you do with an extra $175 to spend this holiday season?
That would buy a whole lotta cookies like the Peppermint Gingerbread Cookie Ball Recipe I wrote on my food blog Lazy Budget Chef.
Wait. What?! You didn't know that I have a food blog?! Well I DO!
Well know is the perfect opportunity to check it out! Not only do I have a fantastic cookie recipe for you to try but you can ENTER TO WIN A $175 AMAZON GIFT CARD RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!
After you enter the giveaway before sure to check out the links to the yummy holiday recipes my co-hostesses have created!
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 505
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Or Happy Random Thursday in November to our readers outside of the US, LOL.
Time to add your fantastic and creative craft and DIY projects, recipes, and ideas!
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Or Happy Random Thursday in November to our readers outside of the US, LOL.
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Sunday, November 24, 2019
How to Make Tomato Cage Christmas Gnome Decorations
I saw a big Christmas gnome decorations on line at IKEA and knew two of them would look perfect decorating both sides of my front door this Christmas. Unfortunately they were already sold out of them by the first few days of November!
I was severely bummed.
It was all the encouragement I needed to shop IKEA for the materials and go with my original plan of making a set of outdoor Christmas gnomes built around tomato cages. Since storage space is at a premium in my condo, I made my Christmas gnomes (which we Scandinavians call Tomte or Nisser) as a temporary slipcover. That way I can use the cages in my summer garden, clean them, and use them again during the Christmas decorating season. If you have the storage space you can permanently hot glue the fabric to your tomato cage instead of holding it in place with clothes pins like I did.
I was severely bummed.
It was all the encouragement I needed to shop IKEA for the materials and go with my original plan of making a set of outdoor Christmas gnomes built around tomato cages. Since storage space is at a premium in my condo, I made my Christmas gnomes (which we Scandinavians call Tomte or Nisser) as a temporary slipcover. That way I can use the cages in my summer garden, clean them, and use them again during the Christmas decorating season. If you have the storage space you can permanently hot glue the fabric to your tomato cage instead of holding it in place with clothes pins like I did.
Save this tutorial to your Pinterest boards for later! Share this decorating idea with your friends!
How to Make Scandinavian Christmas Gnomes
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