GREEN YOUR: BEDROOM

SHE WORE WHAT?! To the interview

esterday was a special day. I had my first blog interview! It was for an upcoming issue of Coulee Region Women. CRW is a regional home and healthy living magazine for La Crosse, WI. That means local people could start reading my blog! Exciting … and odd. I’m still getting used to the idea of [...]

Unchartered Waters

I have reached the point where buying vintage clothes “as is” is not enough. Now I look at things and think, “Yeah, that has potential. If I took it in a little here, shortened there, it could be fabulous.” A needle and thread still scare me, the sewing machine leaves me clueless, but I’m always [...]

Thrifty Green Thursday – Grow FRESH air

The air inside your home may be up to 10 times polluted as the air outside. Considering we spend 65% of our time in our homes and up to 90% of time indoors all together, the quality of air we breathe is something to think about. Pollutants enter our homes in a variety of ways. [...]

Clearinghouse – Junk in my trunk.

Purge list: t-shirt drawer cami drawer work out drawer pajama drawer underwear drawer & bra/swim drawer sock drawer junk drawer Junk drawer. Last on the list to purge my dresser is the junk drawer. Most people have one of these in their kitchen. Mine just happens to be in my bedroom. Kitchen organized, bedroom not [...]

Clearinghouse – Sock it to me!

Purge list: t-shirt drawer cami drawer work out drawer pajama drawer underwear drawer & bra/swim drawer sock drawer junk drawer Sock drawer. Ahhhh yes… my sock drawer. I saved the worst for last. Well, last of the clothing in my dresser anyway, I still have the junk drawer to do. I have been dreading this [...]

Clearinghouse – Down to my skivvies.

Purge list: t-shirt drawer cami drawer work out drawer pajama drawer underwear drawer & bra/swim drawer sock drawer junk drawer Underwear & Swim Drawers Well folks, I never thought I would be telling you about my underwear, but I am. As embarrassing as that is, the contents of these two tiny drawers is even more [...]

Thrifty Green Thursday – MYO Drawstring Backpack

Need a bag? No problem. My daughter entered 7th grade this year and has to start changing for PE class. In need of way to transport sweaty gym socks without stinking up her entire back pack and reduce the mountain of clothes recently purged from her closet we decided to combine the two. She picked [...]

Clearinghouse, The Series

Purge list: t-shirt drawer cami drawer work out drawer pajama drawer underwear drawer & bra/swim drawer sock drawer junk drawer Pajama drawer. Ooh, I have reached the half way point of clearing out my dresser. [Pause for celebratory dance.] At the rate I have been purging I may no longer need my dresser. [Ooh, ooh. [...]

Clearinghouse…still

Purge list: t-shirt drawer cami drawer work out drawer pajama drawer underwear drawer & bra/swim drawer sock drawer junk drawer Workout drawer. Looks like next on the purge list is my workout lounge wear drawer. Okay, let’s get real here. Sure this drawer is full of “workout” clothes, but closest I have come to “working [...]

Clearinghouse Continued

Next up on the purge list: camisole drawer Continuing on in the nine drawer dresser full, my cami collection is next to succumb to the three R’s. Taking stock:Current contents = 30 camisoles Man. This is no better than my t-shirt drawer! Apparently I needed one camisole for every t-shirt I owned. What am I [...]