First a disclaimer. I actually like HGTV. They’re nice people, or their PR folks are anyhow. Although I can’t ever find them now, they’ve had both George and Ed on their station (love them both!). They promote green living (to an extent), and they offer me my summer dose of TV.
However, I recently saw something at their website that sort of irks me. This isn’t the first time either. They do this quite a lot on their TV shows. I suppose tonight was the last straw.
I was at their Green Home blog, and I was reading this post, Green Decorating …read more

Yesterday, I posted about foil use, because a reader asked a question about it. Which made me think of how I quit using paper towels. Since we’ve got the paper towel challenge going on right now, I thought I’d share.
I’m not in the paper towel challenge, because we have zip paper towels at our house. We quit using them cold turkey. We didn’t ease down, or aim to use less, we just quit.
I asked myself: “What if the store was out of paper towels?” And, “What the heck did they do before paper towels?”
WHAT? Well, I’d use something else, find …read more