I write this now, coming from about 4 months, give or take, experience now at reducing our electricity bill each month. Energy here in Fairbanks, Alaska is expensive. In fact per the US Energy Information Administration only a few other states are higher. In case you’re curious, Hawaii is the most expensive with New York and Connecticut following. We’re number four on this list. Unfortunately for us here in the
Since the last time I have written on our electricity bill and our efforts in reducing it we’ve had a few developments. Now keep in mind with all of this. We do not have some of the typical high energy items that many have. We have no water heater that draws energy nor do we have electric heat. We do have, however, an ancient waterbed. Thankfully that will be replaced
Fairbanks, Alaska, dubbed the Golden Heart City has a lot of positives to it. The people here are welcoming and friendly. The town is a great place to raise kids; it has a small town feel to it; there is very little traffic except for the two usual times of day and even that, after driving in I95 traffic on the East Coast is nothing. All in all, after all
Recently I received a box of Woolzies Dryer Balls to try out and I decided the perfect time to give them a shot was on the loads and loads of laundry that comes back with us when we go camping. Now first keep in mind. I do not use store bought laundry detergent. Some while back we switched to homemade for several reasons. If you are interested in reading more
Gardeners all have their own particular way of storing seeds. Our tried and true methods to keep our seeds dry, safe, cool, and most of all, viable.For me, approximately five years ago, give or take, that meant storing them in their original envelopes in a tupperware container and hoped that they wouldn’t get wet. Many times I would get frustrated each year when I would try to start some seeds
We did it. We finished our September challenge! And since we did not spend a single dollar during the last weekend of September (other than gas and eating out because we did not know we’d be away from home so long on Sunday) we finished the month spending a grand total of….$53.83 at local grocery stores and $432.52 at local farms, farmers markets, dairys and chicken or beef producers. Total
We’re nearing the end of the first 30 days of our Challenge that we set for ourselves and I have to say, I really miss, most of all, pretzels. Small, Snyders pretzels. That was my favorite snack food at work and for almost 30 days I have not had any of those. I really miss those. Instead my snacks have been the usual grape tomatoes and sliced cucumbers, apples and
Twenty Days Now. And believe it or not we don’t feel all that deprived. We have spent $40.76 at the local grocery stores on groceries. This includes things like parmesan cheese, some Kale that we forgot to pick up at the farmers market, peppermint patties and raisins. Remember by the way, we’re allowing ourselves a total of $60 per month at the local grocery store. We have spent a total of
Well, we’re almost halfway through the month of September and here’s how it goes thus far.We’ve spent $34.29 so far at traditional grocery stores like the commisary or Walmart. Now here’s the kicker. We’ve spent $135.15 on local groceries. That means at farms like Brad’s Produce, orchards like Lohrs Orchard and the farmers market at Bel Air.This past weekend we visited the farmers market because we were starting to run
Five days into our challenge now and my son is already crying because there are no snacks in the house. It didn’t help that we had a three day weekend which we spent camping and we brought most of our fresh apples and peaches. We do have two peaches left, one of which is getting kind of mushy. That one will be turned into dried peach slices tonight in our
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