Aluminum Foil from lids and candy wrappers, clean and dry, can be balled up to 2 inches and recycled in the blue/recycle carts. #aluminum#aluminumfoil#candy#recycle#candywrappers#chocolate#zerowasteliving#chocolateeasterbunny#sustainableliving
A Little More Green: It’s a Journey: Juice
A little step, a little more forward, maybe a little backwards, but keeping the goal in mind. I did buy a single use juice bottle today, I did ingest. Microplastics, I did take it home to recycle. I am not strong all the time. It’s a process… #babysteps#inprogress#juice#microplastics#noglassbottle#plasticbottles
4 Crates for the Austin Zoo Cage Call
4 used crates for the Austin Zoo! The Zoo is all rescued animals and accepts retired and surrendered animals. I love that I can help them, and so does my son! This also helps neighbors clean out their garages and houses! Both sides win and I get to have an outdoor experience with my son!…
Broken Plastic Hangers are Recyclable
Broken plastic hangers can go in blue/recycle carts in you have @balconesrecycling or Texas Disposal Systems . Check your local provider to find out what they accept. Metal hangers can be dropped at any dry cleaners to be reused. ⛓️💥 Broken fuzzy hangers go in the trash. Wood hangers are trash if they can’t be…
Prescription and Drug Drop Off at Walgreens
You don’t have to empty the bottles. Toss them in. Drop in the metal disposal unit at the pharmacy. Accepted: Prescription medications, ointments and patches, OTC medications, ointments, lotions and liquids, Pet medications, Vitamins, Aerosol cans, Inhalers Not Accepted: Needles and thermometers, Hydrogen peroxide, Illegal drugs https://www.walgreens.com/…/safe-medication-disposal.jsp Take them in as they go, don’t stockpile.…
Introspective Sharing on a Goodwill/Thrift Dropoff
Keep it or move it along, which type are you? Do you hold onto things until the ideal person or organization comes along to donate too or do you need it out of the house? Do you drive a little farther for an organization that is more ideal for your donations or that will treat…
The Mascara Hunt, Palm Oil, and Sephora
The mascara search continues. I can’t find a safe mascara that doesn’t contain palm oil. There are few clean mascaras, even fewer clean ones listed in the Environmental Working Group Cleaning Living app, those aren’t that clean and/or they have plans oil in them which is a major cause of forest destruction. Agh. Help if…
Spring Fairy Vibes with PopFizzCheers
Feel like a spring fairy in my @popfizzcheers Moss Green headband. #greenliving#green#colorcoordinated#shoplocal#shopsmall
Birdhouse Books and Gifts: May 13, 2025
Here’s my personal haul from today that included the final gift for my son’s teacher. We are big Mo Willems, and squirrel, fans! Updates from local Birdhouse Books and Gifts : May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month New pigeon book: Will the Pigeon Graduate? Mo Williams Squirrel books in English & Spanish…
Waste Not, Want Not: Flowers & Teacher Appreciation
Waste not, want not. Our school hosted a flower bar for teacher appreciation this week from Trader Joe’s and I offered to take the leftovers home to compost. There was just enough left to make one bouquet for me. I love the opportunity to compost for school, that I got to save this one bit…