Did you know Justin and I run a second site together, Sustainable Baby Steps? It’s my more practical side wrapped up in its own website. Sustainable Baby Steps is dedicated to guiding you to live a healthy, happy, meaningful life…without overwhelming you with information, costing an arm and a leg or sacrificing what really matters: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘frugal living’
Surviving the Heat
Our weather has been nothing less than wonky this year but the heat is in full swing now. We’re averaging around 110 degrees and some god-awful humidity has descended upon us. What a horrible, horrible thing humidity is. Every year for the past several years, we’ve managed to bump up the temperature setting on our [...]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Homemade vanilla extract is the best. And the cheapest! With what we’d spend to buy a few ounces of vanilla extract at the store, we made two large jars full. (Over a year later and we and others are still have barely made a dent!) . One ounce of vanilla beans, sliced open (we bought ours [...]
Janky
Jan-ky [jang-kee] -adjective 1. Inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and dilapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects: We tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but I was driving my sister’s janky 1989 Geo Metro so we just got clowned instead. . 2. Poorly constructed or unattractive; [...]
Meal Plan Monthly
Because I can neither meander through commonality, nor tolerate excessive time among crowds and cash registers, the weekly meal plans I’ve seen gracing the pages of blogs don’t appeal. For several months my goal was bi-weekly meal plans and shopping, but even that’s been irking my nerves, giving my over-achieving tendencies a chance to kick in. [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
