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You CAN save more on your power bill; are you willing?

A reader over at my personal blog Life in a Shoe left me a fascinating link from Generation Cedar.  It seems that the author’s neighbors have gone to extremes to cut the power bill for their large house and very large family to just $65/month.
Some of their changes were over-the-top for our family.  Others were [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

7 Important questions to help you prioritize your storage

a short excerpt from my upcoming e-book:
There are two keys to good stewardship when it comes to storage: organization, and priorities. You can prioritize by asking yourself 7 important questions before you store an item:

Will I use it again within a year?
Would I really miss it if it disappeared, or would I forget that I ever [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

New month, new you

Last month, I switched to cloth diapers and homemade laundry soap.  Both were surprisingly smooth changes, especially since we had several inglorious blowouts in disposable diapers during the changeover process.  If we weren’t convinced when we started out, we were convinced by the time we finished cleaning up.
I’m trying several new things this month, and [...]

Posted by: kimc on Monday, March 2nd, 2009