Reading Time: 2 minutesGrass-fed or pastured meat and food from farm shops is expensive. Is that right? It may be slightly more expensive (for good reason) but if you want thrifty, nourishing food, take advice from cookbooks of your grandmother’s and great grandmother’s era. You may not have your own, so I mean metaphorically speaking, as traditional nose […]
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A Return to Sheets and Blankets: Out With the Duvet
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve gone back to sheets and blankets (traditional bedding) since we’ve redecorated and carpeted two bedrooms. Call me old-fashioned but I see many good points in what we’ve discarded and left at the back of linen cupboards. What started me off on this was that we were one set of bedding down for our newly […]
Frugal and Zero Waste House Renovation
Reading Time: 7 minutesAre you looking round your house and feel it needs a complete overhaul? Or, have you found your ‘forever’ house, but, it needs a lot of work? You may think it’ll break the bank, but frugal and zero waste house renovation tactics might be the answer. Not only that, but these tend to be ways […]
Greetings Cards from Repurposed Materials: Five ways
Reading Time: 5 minutesMaking your own greetings cards can be fun, creative, and a way to send cards that strike a cord with your friend or family’s likes and tastes. Here are five ways to make greetings cards from repurposed materials. Your card making can be sustainable and will cost very few pence/cents. These are not exactly high […]
A new Zero Waste Shop in Worcester: Why Bulk Bins?
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve been looking for bulk bin buying options to avoid plastic waste when food shopping for a while now, but my nearest stores have been around 30 miles away. However, we now have a zero waste shop in Worcester, where I live, called Pack It In Zero Waste Living. Marvellous! It opened on Saturday in the […]
New From Old: Recycle Your Greetings Cards Into Next Year’s Cards and Gift Tags
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever thought to recycle your greetings cards? You will probably have seen enough of Christmas cards, once Twelfth Night has gone and you have taken them all down. Before you throw them into the recycling bin you might want to look a little carefully at them. For they have the potential to become […]
