Tales from our family life as we make our eco journey to a greener life.
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- may 2009
Living Green and Thrifty over 40mm in our rain gauge in Melbourne overnight (overflowing) and another 17mm so far today!
(Image borrowed from the Oxfam website)I just placed the order for our Christmas tree from Oxfam. It will be delivered for free somewhere between 12 & 15 December by volunteer drivers of 4WD club. You can too if you live in metropolitan Melbourne. Check them out. Maybe...
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Living Green and Thrifty Christmas tree ordered - if you live in Melbourne, don't forget to get your order in and help beat poverty at the same time
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Oxfam's freshly cut, specially grown pine Christmas trees are on sale again. Our Christmas trees are only $60 each and we deliver them free to your door if you live in metropolitan Melbourne.
3 Landcruisers in 1 picture!, originally uploaded by Berten Smekens.There have been a lot of things on our minds of late with regard to the upcoming year and all that this will entail. There are decisions that we have to make, and we are not usually quick to make these big decisions, especially w...
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Ok, do you remember when I decided to try planting potatoes in a tyre on top on concrete? With newspaper on the bottom & just some compost... Well, finally the plants have died off, so I decided to do a treasure hunt on the weekend to see what I could find. To be honest, I wasn't ...
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Living Green and Thrifty BEAT THE HEAT! Pull the blinds down as the sun comes around to hit the window - lower the temperature in the house. Lift them up as the sun goes away from the window to let in the light.
Spy Hill Landfill - 4, originally uploaded by D'Arcy Norman.We just had our hard waste clean up this weekend just gone & I was really excited as it was a great way to clear out some of the crap that had accumulated around the edges of our life that we really didn't need anymore. We always try...
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Living Green and Thrifty bucketing the bath water on - the garden is getting through it now. New seeds in, basil, beans, corn, cucumber
Living Green and Thrifty The garden is completely dehydrated from 6 days of heatwave...summer in spring...eep!
Living Green and Thrifty crossing fingers & toes that we might have found the right landcruiser...
Living Green and Thrifty Another day cleaning the house, another day to pick through our things to see if we really need everything we have. Preparing for a giant garage sale, and have booked in for hard garbage pick up in November. Love deadlines!
Living Green and Thrifty a day spent looking at used vans, diesel 4x4 delica might do the job (8 seats enough for family?), diesel good for biofuel option? tired now
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made more face cream. aah, that's better. face is happy now http://livinggreenandthrifty.blogspot.co
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Tips on how to live a more sustainable life in a thrifty way. Tales from our family life as we make our eco journey to a greener life.
We have made the great decision that next year we are going to clock off from "normal" life for 9 months or so and go travelling around our great country. So many reasons have led us to this point, some of them are that the boys are the right age (10, 8 & 6 yrs), Skip shopper is in the "contr...
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Living Green and Thrifty any twitterers out there...follow along our tweets http://twitter.com/greenandthrifty
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Tips on how to live a more sustainable life in a thrifty way. Tales from our family life as we make our eco journey to a greener life.
