A Salute To Earth Week Whenever I think of certifications or guarentees, I tend to that scene from "Tommy Boy" when in a longish and crazy tirade, he explains that a company-issued guarentee is just a "guarenteed piece of..." Clearly, I'm a little...
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Your Complete Guide To Composting
Salute To Earth Week This weekend, a compost was started in the backyard. So far, it doesn't stink. Of course, it's only three days old. Composting is basically a natural process of decay that you can use to eliminate trash and create useable soil for your gardening...
Buying Local
A Salute To Earth Week Yesterday, I spent the day at the Comic Arts Laugh Festival in Belfast, Maine which is about a 45 minute drive. More specifically, I watched a bunch of independent movies. We got to the theater and the sign said “Independent Movies- 4 hours”....
Homemade Cleaners
A Salute To Earth Week Unless you live under a rock, it's pretty hard to miss the fact that Earth Day is coming up. (And if you do live under a rock, well, I guess it doesn't matter because clearly you are one with the Earth.) Some of you may know my tendency to...
How To Not Spend A Gajillion Dollars At The Drugstore
I have friends who are real drugstore junkies. A new lipstick here, a crazy nail color there...it really allows even the budget conscious to take the phrase "Buy a little something nice for yourself" seriously. But there is a reason that the phrase...
Book Review: Emily Post’s Etiquette
When my mother bought me an etiquette book four years ago the Christmas after I graduated from college, I couldn't have been more insulted. Raised in a family where thank you notes had to be written and us kids always left a note on the counter if we were going...
Book Review: Emily Post's Etiquette
When my mother bought me an etiquette book four years ago the Christmas after I graduated from college, I couldn't have been more insulted. Raised in a family where thank you notes had to be written and us kids always left a note on the counter if we were going...
Budget, Interrupted
How A Grocery Budget Can Effect Your Relationship Looking at last month's budget, I am struck by how off I was. Groceries were almost $250 off my budget. What kind of personal finance blogger am I? To be fair, eating out spending for me was one meal out, meaning I was...
Hi My Name Is Nicole And I’m In A Support Group
It's coming up on six months since my dad died. (If you'd like to be brought up to speed, the paper covered it better than I could at the time (with a creepy headline though) here.) So far, my way of dealing with this is throwing myself into work, writing, going to...