Do you have a closet full of clothes you don’t wear? Boxes of seasonal wear piled up in the basement? Piles and piles of clothes you have no idea what to do with? If you do, you’re not alone. It’s estimated the average American buys twice as much clothing as they did 20 years ago. Any way you add that up, that’s a lot of clothing, much of it sitting on hangars hardly worn. So what can you do with all that extra clothing? One of the best things you can do is to donate it. Surveys have shown that…
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Four. Straight. Days. Of. Rain. This is not exactly the best week of the summer. With day after day of rain, both you and the kids are going a little stir crazy. Just when you finally had them to the point where they were able to play outside in the backyard by themselves for short periods of time, the rain has trapped everyone indoors. You have created masking tape mazes throughout the basement, build an obstacle course out of the kitchen chairs, and read seven more chapters in the kids’ favorite books. With one more day of rain in the…
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There are more than 40 million gardeners across the United States, and more than half of them report that they compost their organic waste on a regular basis. The statistics are encouraging: the more we compost our food scraps and leaves, the less we contribute to landfills. Americans are more willing than ever to recycle: we want to do whatever we can to help, but many of us are unfamiliar with the benefits of composting. How can I start composting at home? What equipment will I need? What is composting, exactly? Composting is a way that you can turn your…
