Sowing the seeds of change!
Considering everything that’s happened in 2020, I’ve had the urge to do Christmas in *a big way* to make up for everything that hasn’t happened. Lots of new lights and decorations, plenty of presents for my son, husband, roommate, and extended family, and anything else I can think of. Really, though, those things won’t make the holiday […]
We spent a lovely, low key week camping up in the mountains this summer, and it got me considering the ways we ecofrugally go off-grid. We may not be perfectly zero waste, but many of the ways we choose to camp align with those values. After all, if a requirement of camping up forest roads […]
While it may seem that living sustainably comes naturally to me these days, my life looked very different even a decade ago. While the environment is something I’ve cared about most of my life, I didn’t think too much about my personal impact on the Earth – I was too busy living my day to […]
We are in a special time in history right now during a global pandemic, where everyday people are asked – begged – to make masks for first line responders, health care workers, grocery store staff, and everyone else they know. While I (Angela) personally do not have the skills to make masks myself – my […]
After 3 years of a clothes shopping ban, Angela explains how she does it, and how you can do it too! It does not have to be difficult or tedious. In fact, you probably have what you need in your closet already!
This post was originally posted for Tread Lightly Retire Early, and cross-posted here for clarity. When I first started blogging back in summer 2017, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and knew no one in the online community. Months before I had even figured out that Twitter was where I would find […]