Alcohol, rubbing alcohol or grain alcohol (Everclear) are great for disinfecting earrings, to use as deodorant, cleaning your glasses and erasing whiteboards. What else do you do with it? I like to keep my in a little spray bottle to make using it easier! #alcohol #rubbingalcohol #grainalcohol #everclear #disinfectant #deodorant #cleaning #cleanyourglasses #permanentmarker #swimmeets #swimming…
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My wool& Dress 3 Years Later
This is still my favorite way to wear my black Sierra wool& dress three years later! I grew up in a uniform jumper with a shirt under it so I really enjoy this dress/shirt combination. At the time my school plaid was navy and dark green. I love red and black together. In elementary school…
Contact lenses can be recycled!
I had my annual eye exam this morning and I wanted to share this reminder with you all. I got to the point where I decided contact lenses weren’t going to work for me anymore, so I’m glasses all the way now, but it’s important to remember to share that contact lenses can be recycled…
Outfit of the Day: Forest Fairy
So there is a social media trend where you share your outfit of the day (OOTD). I don’t really do that, though I did as part of the requirement for the Wool& 100 Days Dress Challenge. I’m trying to share more of my thinking with you all in hope that it inspires you and helps…
Prescription Medicine Bottles
A topic that came up in the Austin Zero Waste Lifestyle last week, and that I’ve actually gotten a lot of questions on in the past few months is prescription medicine bottles. So let’s discuss! Prescription medicine bottles, or what the City of Austin calls “pill bottle (empty)” are processed differently depending on where you…
Asbestos Recycling
Featured image from https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/handling-disposing-asbestos/ The Mesothelioma Center reached out to me recently and proposed I add information on proper handling of asbestos to my Where Do I Donate/Recycle? page. Turns out asbestos can be recycled, and it really needs a lot of proper handling to keep people safe. I wrote a short bit for my…
Food Pantry
We just took our pantry clean out over to a partner of the Central Texas Food Bank. We stock up on pantry items for winter storms and then donate those items to the food bank after winter. After my colonoscopy and endoscopy in January there was still some food left that I am no longer…
End of Year Donations
Ever since I was a little girl, December was a big cleaning and clearing out month for me. I’m not sure if my mom ever said anything directly, I just new that historically there would be some new things coming into my room and life and that I wanted to have a clean and ready…
Safe Medication Disposal
Free safe medication disposal may now be available at your local Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy and other pharmacy locations. My CVS, nor any location remotely close to me, is participating as of yet. The disposal kiosk is usually near the pharmacy section of the store. I encourage you to check your preferred or required pharmacies as…
Coral Wellness and Reef Safe Sunscreen
Happy Friday! It’s #REDfriday which means Remember Everyone Deployed. For me that means wearing red, including my 4ocean Hawaiian Coral Reef bracelet, and reef safe sunscreen because I burn! Chemicals from our sunscreen can be dangerous to coral, specifically oxybenzone and octinoxate, common ingredients in over 3,500 sunscreens. With over 25% of all marine life…