Riot 4 Austerity

homemade entertainment: no tv and no computer games
      

nothing new needs to be created!
      

Rather than purchasing a costume,  make a costume with what is laying around the house. (our mad scientist).
      

The pillow quilt is growing. This is the quilt that I’m stuffing with down from a reclaimed comforter that I was given. The fabric is all from scraps or my stash. I’m learning a lot about my sewing habits as…

Enjoy nature
      

So, in keeping with the advice of my last post, I will assume that you have gone and informed yourself about the economy.   And I will assume that you don’t like what you have heard and read.  Now what?  You didn’t cause this mess, but unless you are already living on your fully paid for self sustaining farm […]

You take one down, you pass it around, 450 pages of bailout to read…
OK, I give up! I tried to read the final version of the Emergency Economic Economic Stabilization Act of 2008(The Bailout), but real life intervened.  The truth is, much like watching a train barreling towards a car stuck at a crossing, most of us could […]

More on the economy coming soon, but I just had to share my awesome find with all of you.  I stopped by the library yesterday to pick up a couple of books I had on hold.  There was a small sign posted about a book sale so I asked about it and was led back […]

In my palm pilot (Yes I use a palm pilot. I know it’s sooo turn of the century.) I keep a list of “things to get”. The list includes things such as floor puzzles for Thomas” and “half-pint canning jars”. Although we try to limit our consumerism, there are things that we […]

When Jeff and I first met, he had a much more developed sense of environmentalism than I did. Not only was he supportive of and well informed about large scale environmental issues such as climate change, he acted responsibly on a personal level. Jeff walked or biked to school and he always turned […]