I am trying to be more green, Eco-friendly and all round good egg to the planet but finding a lot of confusing stuff out there. Ideally I would like to have solar panels and our own wind turbine but that's not feasible or affordable at this present time. We are doing all the usual changing to low energy bulbs, recycling, turning off lights, turning down thermostats and switching off all plugs that we can but I feel I would like to/could be doing more.
Can anyone suggest any really good books/websites I can check for practical advice. I know a lot of you use greener products but am unsure where best to get them from or which ones are best for the environment. Any tips/hints/advice would be most welcome.
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CHAOTIC - Can't Have Anyone Over 'Til I Clean! My home and my life are chaotic, join me as I try to restore some order and set myself on the path to a happier, stress-free life.
About Kerri
- Chaotic Kerri
- Well I’m perpetually 39 and I hail from the Granite City. I love animals, thunderstorms, movies, liquorice, and jigsaws. I feel like a gazelle but look more like a Hippo, and I can say the “Peter Piper” tongue twister really, really fast. I live with my wonderful husband (Babes) and 3 kids who will henceforth be known as Peanut, Napkin and Mouse. We have heaps of pets and our friends say we live in a zoo
My Blog List
My 101 Things in 1001 Days List
In progress
Completed with date
1. Lose weight (1/4)
2. Get back studying or get job(26/9/2009)
3. Renew my wedding vows
4. Organise rooms in house (7/14)
5. Sort big cupboards (0/3)
6. Decorate rooms (0/5)
7. Get new car (new to us not brand new)
8. Pay off store card(PAID 6/10/2008)
9. Pay of credit card 1(PAID 6/10/2008)
10. Pay off credit card 2(PAID 6/10/2008)
11. Have emergency savings of £1000
12. Do a spending check (3/09/2008)
13. Start a daily tracker for money
14. Sell something on eBay
15. Have a car boot sale
16. Start a £2 box
17. Have no spending days
18. Take up cycling (2 a week)
19. Visit an extended family member 1 a month (2/33)
20. Do my exercise DVD's (2 a week)
21. Complete the Couch to 5k Challenge
22. Run a 10k with my nieces
23. Drop a clothes size (0/8)
24. Own (and look good in) a little black dress
25. Drink only water for a month (13/08/09)
26. Walk up all the steps of the Wallace Monument
27. Frame and hang all pictures
28. Get a new family portrait done
29. Organise craft stuff (1/10/2008)
30. Reduce my carbon footprint
31. Organise my garden
32. Set up plans to help me maintain my garden
33. Slab my back garden
34. Read 101 Books of my choice (41/101) see list below
35. Write real paper letters (17/101)
36. Learn how to use all the functions on my computer
37. Learn to blog (02/07/2009)
38. Sort through and label all my non digital photos
39. Listen to all my vinyl singles (30/482)
40. Work out a housework schedule to avoid being CHAOTIC
41. Develop and maintain a proper organiser (18/09/2008)
42. Put all my CD’s on to computer (9/8/09)
43. Dance to at least 1 song everyday
44. Grow my own tomatoes (I always do this wrong)
45. Eat at the dinner table every night (27/05/09)
46. List all positives in my life to help me when I’m discouraged (3/09/2008)
47. Make keepsake boxes for my 3 kids
48. Beat my husband at monopoly
49. Have a monthly games night with no TV (7/33)
50. Go to the cinema at least once a week (35/143)See list below
51. Watch all our box set DVD’s (04/54)
52. Become an elder at my church (06/09/09)
53. Make up and keep an animal diary (09/09/2008)
54. Get my puppy to stop chewing things (02/07/2009)
55. Train all 3 of my dogs to come immediately when called
56. Have a day trip to IKEA with my best friend
57. Teach my 2 daughters to cook
58. Learn to tango
59. Set up menu planning and stick to it
60. Go vegetarian for a month
61. Try a new food once a month (7/33)
62. Learn sign language
63. Pass CBT (compulsory bike training)
64. Join the National Trust for a year
65. Visit 1 NT property a month (0/12)
66. Book a holiday to the States
67. Return to Loch Carron
68. Visit the Hunterian Museum
69. See a west end show
70. Visit London zoo
71. Visit the local art gallery (23/09/2008)
72. Visit local maritime museum
73. Visit Gordon highlanders museum
74. Visit John O’Groats
75. Visit Lands End
76. Take a train ride over the Harry Potter Bridge
77. See a rugby match at Murrayfield
78. Do a skydive (tandem)
79. Get a hot stone massage
80. Adopt/support an endangered animal
81. Take part in a pub quiz
82. Learn to scuba dive
83. Get a tattoo
84. Go back to Efteling theme park
85. Go horse riding on a beach
86. Go on the London Eye in a private bubble
87. Go paintballing
88. Post a photograph for every task completed (7/101)
89. Record a "Day in the life of me" with photographs
90. Donate 101,000 grains of rice at Freerice.com (101,000/101,000) (08/07/2009)
91. Have a weekend away in a hotel with just my husband
92. Buy a Christmas dinner for a local family (salvation Army)
93. Make a food donation to instant neighbour (35/101)
94. Buy a gift aid present
95. Plant a tree
96. Go fishing with my husband (try to catch something)
97. Watch my son’s PWF DVD’s with him
98. Have 1 on 1 days with my youngest daughter
99. Have 1 on 1 days with my eldest daughter
100. Pay £10 each to charity for any failed tasks
101. Make or revamp 10 items (0/10)
I am not allowed to change more than 10 things on list unless to increase amounts (3/10)
Tasks Completed (17/101)
Completed with date
1. Lose weight (1/4)
2. Get back studying or get job(26/9/2009)
3. Renew my wedding vows
4. Organise rooms in house (7/14)
5. Sort big cupboards (0/3)
6. Decorate rooms (0/5)
7. Get new car (new to us not brand new)
8. Pay off store card(PAID 6/10/2008)
9. Pay of credit card 1(PAID 6/10/2008)
10. Pay off credit card 2(PAID 6/10/2008)
11. Have emergency savings of £1000
12. Do a spending check (3/09/2008)
13. Start a daily tracker for money
14. Sell something on eBay
15. Have a car boot sale
16. Start a £2 box
17. Have no spending days
18. Take up cycling (2 a week)
19. Visit an extended family member 1 a month (2/33)
20. Do my exercise DVD's (2 a week)
21. Complete the Couch to 5k Challenge
22. Run a 10k with my nieces
23. Drop a clothes size (0/8)
24. Own (and look good in) a little black dress
25. Drink only water for a month (13/08/09)
26. Walk up all the steps of the Wallace Monument
27. Frame and hang all pictures
28. Get a new family portrait done
29. Organise craft stuff (1/10/2008)
30. Reduce my carbon footprint
31. Organise my garden
32. Set up plans to help me maintain my garden
33. Slab my back garden
34. Read 101 Books of my choice (41/101) see list below
35. Write real paper letters (17/101)
36. Learn how to use all the functions on my computer
37. Learn to blog (02/07/2009)
38. Sort through and label all my non digital photos
39. Listen to all my vinyl singles (30/482)
40. Work out a housework schedule to avoid being CHAOTIC
41. Develop and maintain a proper organiser (18/09/2008)
42. Put all my CD’s on to computer (9/8/09)
43. Dance to at least 1 song everyday
44. Grow my own tomatoes (I always do this wrong)
45. Eat at the dinner table every night (27/05/09)
46. List all positives in my life to help me when I’m discouraged (3/09/2008)
47. Make keepsake boxes for my 3 kids
48. Beat my husband at monopoly
49. Have a monthly games night with no TV (7/33)
50. Go to the cinema at least once a week (35/143)See list below
51. Watch all our box set DVD’s (04/54)
52. Become an elder at my church (06/09/09)
53. Make up and keep an animal diary (09/09/2008)
54. Get my puppy to stop chewing things (02/07/2009)
55. Train all 3 of my dogs to come immediately when called
56. Have a day trip to IKEA with my best friend
57. Teach my 2 daughters to cook
58. Learn to tango
59. Set up menu planning and stick to it
60. Go vegetarian for a month
61. Try a new food once a month (7/33)
62. Learn sign language
63. Pass CBT (compulsory bike training)
64. Join the National Trust for a year
65. Visit 1 NT property a month (0/12)
66. Book a holiday to the States
67. Return to Loch Carron
68. Visit the Hunterian Museum
69. See a west end show
70. Visit London zoo
71. Visit the local art gallery (23/09/2008)
72. Visit local maritime museum
73. Visit Gordon highlanders museum
74. Visit John O’Groats
75. Visit Lands End
76. Take a train ride over the Harry Potter Bridge
77. See a rugby match at Murrayfield
78. Do a skydive (tandem)
79. Get a hot stone massage
80. Adopt/support an endangered animal
81. Take part in a pub quiz
82. Learn to scuba dive
83. Get a tattoo
84. Go back to Efteling theme park
85. Go horse riding on a beach
86. Go on the London Eye in a private bubble
87. Go paintballing
88. Post a photograph for every task completed (7/101)
89. Record a "Day in the life of me" with photographs
90. Donate 101,000 grains of rice at Freerice.com (101,000/101,000) (08/07/2009)
91. Have a weekend away in a hotel with just my husband
92. Buy a Christmas dinner for a local family (salvation Army)
93. Make a food donation to instant neighbour (35/101)
94. Buy a gift aid present
95. Plant a tree
96. Go fishing with my husband (try to catch something)
97. Watch my son’s PWF DVD’s with him
98. Have 1 on 1 days with my youngest daughter
99. Have 1 on 1 days with my eldest daughter
100. Pay £10 each to charity for any failed tasks
101. Make or revamp 10 items (0/10)
I am not allowed to change more than 10 things on list unless to increase amounts (3/10)
Tasks Completed (17/101)
101 list movies at cinema/Home
- New Moon
- Jennifer's Body
- Sorority Row
- Gamer
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Blind Side
- Clash of The Titans
- District 9
- Time Travellers Wife
- Taking of Pelham 123
- G Force
- Dead Snow
- In The Electric Mist
- Four Christmases
- Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
- Aliens in the Attic
- Valentine
- Bandslam
- Angels and Demons
- Observe and Report
- Monsters V's Aliens
- Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
- My sister's keeper
- Year One
- Night at the Museum 2
- Ice Age 3
- Transformers revenge of the fallen
- Terminator rise of the machines
- Star Trek
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- Hannah Montana Movie
- X men origins Wolverine
- Paul Blart Mall Cop
- Marley & me
- Gran Torino
101 Books read
- Twanged by Carol Higgins Clark
- Decked by Carol Higins Clark
- Step on a Crack by James Patterson
- Sunday at Tiffany's by James Patterson
- Santa Cruise by Mary & Carol Higgins Clark
- Gerald Durrells Army by Edward Whitley
- 1st to Die by James Patterson
- Overloaded Ark by Gerald Durrell
- The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
- Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
- My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
- Hitched by Carol Higgins Clark
- Laced by Carol Higgins Clark
- Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark
- Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
- The five people you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Octopussy and the Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
- Awight Now by Michael Barrymore
- Murder Most Fab by Julian Clary
- Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- You want to do what? by Karen Sullivan
- The School for Husbands by Wendy Holden
- Dr No by Ian Fleming
- Dear Fatty by Dawn French
- Are these my basoomas I see before me by Louise Rennison
- Half Blood Price by J K Rowling
- That's another story by Julie Walters
- Lok who it is by Alan Carr
- We bought a zoo by Benjamin Mee
Labels
- 101 in progress (33)
- About my 101 list (9)
- Add (3)
- advice needed (2)
- Animal Antics (14)
- Appreciate Sundays (3)
- Books Read (12)
- Chit Chat (90)
- completed tasks (14)
- Daily Tracking (2)
- Edit (3)
- Failed Tasks (1)
- General Rantings (32)
- Movies Watched (14)
- Photo Fun (13)
- Postcrossing (5)
- Vinyl Discoveries (4)
- Weight rantings (11)
2 comments:
Blog coming up this week about a great green website.
Plus on my blogroll - the blog green as a thistle is well worth a read - but go back to the beginning and read if you have a few hous - it's inspirational...
Thanks, went back to the beginning and have made my way through 6 months so far plus her june 09 stuff. Very good read and very helpful. looking forward to your blog.
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