Toxic Free Living And Natural Alternatives for Life

How to Keep Urban Backyard Chickens

How to get started keeping backyard chickens I have to give my daughter Ivy credit for any benefits I reap from our backyard chickens. We’ve had chickens over the years, but it has been her love for them that has really made them thrive and inspired me to take an interest in them too! Who knew chickens …

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Save the Bees: Ways to Help

HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE BEES Recently, a friend of mine discovered honeybees had taken up residence in her home. Thankfully, even though it was quite expensive, she was able to have a professional beekeeper relocate them. I have known friends and neighbors in the past who have not been as generous or simply did not …

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KonMari Method: Lesson Two

KonMari Method: Lesson Two BOOKS I shared the first Pearl of Wisdom or Lesson during my first blogpost about sorting clothing and my video about emptying my purse. I have learned so much from the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. It is often referred to as the KonMari Method. The second …

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Top Tidying Tips using the KonMari Method

Lesson One Konmari is the author: Marie Kondo is considered Japan’s decluttering Queen of tidying. Her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.  While I agree with Kondo on some points; such as the notion that people have accumulated far more things than they need. I disagree that my …

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Learning to accept “good enough” as an all or nothing gal

I had a chat with a friend after our Trim Healthy Mama group meeting last night. We are both super-control-freak-perfectionist-all-or-nothing-gals. We both suffer from a very black and white view of life. We are both hit the bulls eye or go home kind of people. I had messaged her earlier in the week to tell her …

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Is Your Marriage a “Fixer Upper”…

Not taking care of your marriage is like living in a home you never repair.. Let me paint a picture for you…. A young couple got married and together they purchased their first home. Everything was new and fresh, with no blemishes in the walls, no dings in the door frames, not even a smudge on the window …

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Branded for life – Part Three

You might want to read Parts One and Two before reading this blog post as they are part of a mini-series We planned my sister’s funeral so that everyone would wear brightly colored clothing because that’s how my sister would have liked it. We played all her favorite songs, including the theme song from “Friends” …

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Branded for life – Part Two

continued from Branded for life – Part One It was so hard to tell my sister what her options were.  When I gave her the options her facial expression completely changed. It changed from listening to utter disbelief. “Hospice?” she whispered with as much voice as she could muster.  The look on her face told …

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Discover the Truth About Factory Farms

The EPA defines a CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation) as one that accommodates more than 1,000 animals at the facility. If the animals discharge pollution directly or indirectly into a body of water the number is 300.  Criticized because of the environmental impact and the health and ethics of the treatment of such animals,  CAFO’s …

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When You Hate Sounds – the pain of misophonia

Misophonia – literally “hatred of sound”, was proposed in 2000 as a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. It is also called “select sound sensitivity syndrome” and “sound-rage“. The hatred of sounds is not always diagnosed as Misophonia but many people suffer from a mild form of it …

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How to Eat Healthy on a Tight Budget

It’s important to know how to eat healthy on a tight budget. Young adults leaving home might benefit from knowing how to eat healthy on a starting salary. As adults, from time to time we may want to tighten our budget a bit and cut spending in certain areas, or it might be an absolute …

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How to transition to Zero Waste and Become a Cool Mom

Transition your family to follow the 4 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot Ok, so maybe we won’t achieve “zero waste” but in an attempt to reduce waste and be more earth friendly I have listed some suggestions on the subject. Let’s say “Zero Waste Effort” okay? Here’s how you can be the coolest mom …

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