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Not shopping with kids

by Angela 01.26.2010

One huge advantage of our carfree lifestyle is that we don’t shop very much. I believe being without a car means fewer shopping trips, but I don’t have any research to back me up. If you’ve seen any, please leave a comment! I did find a study today that shows shopping trips are the most [...]

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Blogging for dollars

by Angela 08.19.2009

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about the controversy over “mommy bloggers” accepting payment or goods from companies.* If the coverage hasn’t gotten to you, try the Newsweek piece, or the NPR piece. Off and on, I’ve wondered if we should host some advertising on this blog. After all, we put energy into the [...]

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Cloth Diapers, Take Two

by Dorea 07.21.2009

Sometimes really great things happen in the world of babies between your first and second kid. In our case, two wonderful things happened in the world of cloth diapers. 1) One-size pocket diapers were invented. We received several BumGenius 3.0 one-size pocket diapers as a gift, and we LOVE them (Thank you friends! You know [...]

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Retail Therapy

by Angela 05.18.2009

I’ve learned something about myself in the past couple of weeks — I’m not immune to retail therapy. Since Dorea got diagnosed with a semi-rare pregnancy complication, we’ve been bleeding money. Some of the spending is legit. She’s been having acupuncture appointments and we’ve spent money on medications of various sorts. But looking at my [...]

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Used Success

by Angela 03.31.2009

A while back I wrote about wanting to purchase more things used. I just wanted to report a major success, which was buying a used portable dishwasher. I found the dishwasher on Craigslist and was able to find someone who could deliver it as well. Even including the cost of delivery, we saved a few [...]

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Xtracycle shopping

by Angela 03.06.2009

True confession time: I have no right to be writing this post right now. Between illness and bike problems, it’s been far too long since I’ve done a good shopping trip on a bike. In fact, thanks to the generosity of our friends, I’ve borrowed a car for several in the past couple of months. [...]

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