Sustainable personal hygiene: Such beauty shouldn’t go to waste! I was at the drugstore yesterday and practically fainted at the hundreds of hair products, face washes, moisturizers, and body care products…all in plastic bottles. I wondered, do we really need to have...
Zero-Waste Housekeeping: Your grandmother would be proud! Think about this for a minute: Our grandmothers practiced the original version of zero-waste housekeeping. They cleaned with rags, not paper towels, and used homemade cleaning products. I remember my Greek...
Welcome to month three of our year-long zero-waste challenge. This month, we’re hungering to take on food prep and storage solutions (p. 69-83 in our guide, Zero Waste, by Shia Su). If you’re like us, you feel guilty when you toss leftovers or expired food—what a...
Welcome to month two of our zero-waste year! If you’ve read last month’s blog (and who wouldn’t, as it’s such fabulous writing☺), you know we’re doing a full year of zero-waste challenges, working toward creating less trash to help save our planet. This month, our...
Zero Waste Introduction Happy New Year! And while we’re on the subject, I want to talk about a big New Year’s resolution that Big Rocks is making, and we invite you to join us. We resolve to practice zero waste this year more consciously than we’ve ever done. Now, we...
When talking about clearing clutter, most people think about tangible clutter related to physical spaces like your home, closets, storage, car, etc. However, today, I’d like to call your attention to another important space where you might accumulate clutter that...
Help create harmony between the maximalist and minimalist in your household. Try these pointers for meeting in the middle-ish.
Tips from a Professional Organizer Who Remodeled Three Houses and Lived to Tell About It Woohoo, you’re finally going to remodel! That avocado green kitchen will soon be history. Or maybe you’re saying a not-so-fond farewell to your ‘70s orange bathroom. Be excited!...
It’s a new year, and I’m lying on my couch looking at my same old living room. The one that looks exactly like it did a year ago. I don’t even see the décor anymore. It feels boring and blah and the same. So, I jump off the couch and announce to my family, “Guess...
When I was growing up, there was a stack of photo boxes in the front bedroom at my grandmother’s house. Some were marked with family names, others were labeled “sunsets” or “to be sorted.” A box of my baby photos and treasures sat in my parents’ attic along with a...