Archive for the ‘ green Christmas ’ Category

Time to start thinking about the holidays

There’s no denying it. The holidays are upon us. Thanksgiving is next week. I’ll be doing some posts on the holidays in the upcoming weeks. I thought I’d do a roundup of my posts from the past two years that had ideas and information about making the holidays and all that go along with them [ READ MORE ]

Recycle Your Christmas Cards and Help a Good Cause

Yesterday, I wrote about a company that will accept your old and broken strands of Christmas lights for recycling. Today, I bring you St. Jude’s Ranch for Children that has a program that accepts all types of greeting cards, including Christmas cards, for their recycling program. Now through Feb. 28, 2009, they are accepting donations [ READ MORE ]

Recycling Christmas Lights

Good Morning. I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. We’ve got a few days break until New Year’s hits, so I’m back at work. The boys, however, are not back at school. I feel so blessed that I can work from home and accommodate their schedules. I like it when they are off. The morning [ READ MORE ]

Look What I Did for my Christmas Party

Okay, after yesterday’s post on not screaming about how green your holiday celebration is, I am going to show you one thing I did for my Christmas party over the weekend. I’m not very crafty so I’m a little proud of this (not that it was difficult at all). Instead of going out and buying poinsettias [ READ MORE ]

Subtle Green Holiday Party Ideas – Not Happening

You know, I was going to make a list of green party ideas that didn’t scream “I’m a green party idea.” As I was thinking about the list, it occurred to me that it isn’t the food or the decorations or the lights that would be the ones screaming “I’m green.” They are inanimate objects [ READ MORE ]

Green Celebrations: My Christmas Party and an Inaugural Ball

What do my annual neighborhood Christmas party and an upcoming inaugural ball have in common?  This Saturday night is our annual Christmas party. We invite our friends from the neighborhood and have a kid-less evening. Last year, I did the best I could to make the event green, but this year I’m adding a couple [ READ MORE ]

Free Christmas Music – MP3′s

It’s easy to see how buying your music via mp3 download is greener than buying a physical product. What’s even better than music that’s greener? FREE music that’s greener. A while back I did a post with the places where I find legal free music downloads. Two of those places are iTunes and Amazon. During [ READ MORE ]

Better Holiday Candles: Soy and Beeswax

I need candles for the candle holder in fireplace candle stand. We don’t light the candles in there that often, so it’s been a couple of years since I bought them. The last time I bought them, I went to the dollar store for them. I was able to fill the stand with candles for [ READ MORE ]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Packing and Shipping Materials

Just about now during the holidays, if you shop online, you’re being inundated with boxes full of gifts. But those boxes probably contain more packing materials than gifts. It’s amazing the over packaging that some companies do. What do you do with all of those packing and shipping materials that end up piled high in [ READ MORE ]

10 Easy Ways to Be More Sustainable with Holiday Gift Wrapping

This post doesn’t just pertain to holiday gift wrapping, but since it’s December, I put holiday in the title. Cause I try to cater to the search engines, at least in my titles. Anyway, it seems everyone is buying less this season, but people are still buying. This means that people will still need to [ READ MORE ]

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