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Welcome to a new series here on the blog: my everyday essentials. I share so much of my life online, but I found that I only share the bigger, newer things and some of the everyday items fall by the wayside. Well, not anymore! This is going to be a series of random things I use every day, unsponsored, for no good reason other than to share them. I first came up with the idea in the shower so it seemed like the best place to start. Shower Curtain / Hooks The theme of the bathroom, and entire apartment really,...

It is the time when marketers encourage us to abandon self-discipline, forget about guilt and give in to our gluttony and material wants and spend all that we can to celebrate the season of giving by buying, buying, buying! This of course results in garbage bins that are overflowing with trash, food waste, shiny gift wrappers, unwanted presents and a whole lotta plastic; which is why the Christmas holiday season is considered the most wasteful time of the year.  So for this year, instead of adding to our global environmental problems by purchasing mainstream, mindless crap, how about putting time...

It is the time when marketers encourage us to abandon self-discipline, forget about guilt and give in to our gluttony and material wants and spend all that we can to celebrate the season of giving by buying, buying, buying! This of course results in garbage bins that are overflowing with trash, food waste, shiny gift wrappers, unwanted presents and a whole lotta plastic; which is why the Christmas holiday season is considered the most wasteful time of the year.  So for this year, instead of adding to our global environmental problems by purchasing mainstream, mindless crap, how about putting time...