Half Pint Pixie

Day 14 : There’s a choice of three tasks today, do one or do all three:

1) Start composting
We don’t compost at home as the council have composting facilities as part of our fortnightly rubbish collection. All food scraps, garden clippings, leaves, tissues and even compostable nappies can go into your brown bin, wrapped in [...]

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Day 12 : Turn down your washing machine to 30-degrees
I usually wash our clothes at 30 and every so often give them a 40 degree wash, but in general I wash towels & babypixie’s clothes at 40. I rarely do a 60 wash, maybe once a year for bedlinen, and our machine has never experienced [...]

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Day 11 : Today’s challenge is to walk, cycle or take the bus instead of driving your car.
That’s an average day for the car-free halfpintpixie household, as you know hubby cycles to and from work, and myself and babypixie use the bus or footpower to get where we’re going.

Day 8 has the details…

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Day 10 : Your challenge for today is to clean up your act! Get rid of the chemical cleaners that you use in your home, and replace them with natural cleaners like vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and soda crystals…
We use Ecover cleaning products in the halfpintpixie household, at least that is, we use them until [...]

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Day 9 : Today we are challenging you to save some water. Have a shower instead of a bath…
Normally I would agree with this, but after 5 whole months our city-wide “Boil Water” notice has finally been lifted.
For the first time in her life, I can give babypixie a bath in the “big bath”. She [...]

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Day 8 : Your challenge for today is to slow down in your car…
The halfpintpixie household is a car-free zone.
Hubbie cycles to and from work and we get the bus when we go to town.
We’re lucky that we live on a good bus route, but that was one of the things we looked for when [...]

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Day 7 : Today we are challenging you to join Freecycle
I joined the Galway Freecycle group a few months ago, I haven’t needed to use it yet, but it’s a great idea!
You can find more information at their Yahoo group, Galway_Ireland_Freecycle or go to freecycle.org to look for a group near you…
From freecycle.org :
The Freecycle [...]

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Day 6 : Today we are challenging you to take your own lunch to work, and to pack it into a reusable container…
As a SAHM, my lunches are usually cobbled together from the fridge, but Mr Halfpintpixie usually brings his to work with him. Today he is having some Mongolian Winter Stew, packed in a [...]

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