The following is a reprint of an previously published blog. Enjoy.
What’s small, square, flexible and happy to be smeared with food? No, it’s not your seventh grade best friend. It’s the lowly cloth napkin.
We have been greening our house to try and rid ourselves of the disposable goods habit.
Paper towels? Adios!
Bottled water? Never!
Paper napkins? Be gone!
Using cloth napkins saves trees [...]
I’m starting a new regular feature here on The Nonconsuner-Advocate called Ask Katy.
The idea is that you, the reader write in with any questions you may have about conscious frugality, simple living or pretty much any non-consumer issue.
Please keep in mind that I am not a certified financial expert nor am I an environmental engineer. [...]
We’ve been discussing Dave Wann’s Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle here at The Non-Consumer Advocate.
Dave submitted a wonderfully detailed comment yesterday that I thought I would share with you guys. (It was just too good to leave buried in the comments section.)
Enjoy! And don’t forget to buy or check out your copy [...]
I’ve been writing The Non-Consumer Advocate on a daily basis since last May. Sure, I’ve reposted a few of my popular columns here and there, but that’s still 296 days of content.
It’s a lot of work.
But I love writing the blog. And so far I’ve written for the pure enjoyment of it, with no monetary [...]
I was given a copy of Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette when I was on maternity leave with my younger son in 1998. I inhaled it like a starving man at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I was so obsessed with the book that I even got my sister hooked. (In retrospect, my “Amy says this” and [...]
Welcome to week three of The Non-Consumer Advocate Book Club. We are discussing David Wann’s Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle.
The first week we discussed the preface, introduction and first chapter.
The second week we discussed the second chapter.
This week we’re discussing the third chapter:
Personal Growth: Creating a Rich Life Story.
David Wann starts this chapter by writing that:
“Whether [...]
One of the biggest changes my family has made in the past year is to get handle on food waste. I used to regularly toss rotten food, always cursing myself — vowing to eat my leftovers, yet never getting any better. But my Waste-No-Food Challenge kept me inspired, until what had once been difficult became [...]
I drove up to Seattle last weekend to hang out with my sister over a delicious three day weekend. It’s a three hour drive each way, and not a particularly interesting one. (Unless of course, you’re a dull-freeway-enthusiast.) But I had some good CD’s to sing along with, and my ten-year-old son for company.
My son [...]
I think of myself as having a pretty economy-proof job. As a labor and delivery nurse, my services simply never go out of style. But I’m aware that people may start putting off having a baby. It’s not an unreasonable assumption. I’m also lucky in that I am in a position where I can pick [...]
