The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: It’s the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, but making even small changes to your routine in this room can have a big impact on your journey toward going green. There are so many different opportunities to change products or change habits, making it easy…
Each week here at Life Your Way, we focus on one five-day challenge. The challenges will take place on a different channel each week and include small, measurable goals to help you improve your life. This week's challenge is to reduce the amount of trash you produce. I first shared The Trash Challenge last year…
The following is a guest post from Tan at Tan/Green: Having a go-to kit of cleaning supplies takes some hassle and stress out of getting the chores done. Rather than storing a bottle of one cleaner in the bathroom and another in the kitchen, rags in the laundry room cabinets and scrub brushes under the…
Join us all month for 31 Days of Organizing for a Better 2010! Last year I introduced The Trash Challenge, my own attempt to be more aware of what we were throwing away and decrease our amount of trash to one bag per week. However, despite my realization that I needed to finally take the…
Last week, I introduced The Trash Challenge. Funny enough, although I started off whining explaining that we are still filling 4-6 bags a week, we only ended up with 2 bags. I was very careful not to change any of our habits during the week, and I think that the switch back to cloth diapers…
I've spent a lot of time over the past few weeks wondering what exactly fills our trash bags each week. We've switched back to cloth diapers. We recycle cardboard, plastic, glass and aluminum. We repurpose and reuse as much as we can without adding to the clutter in our home. And we've cut down on…