Spring will eventually be upon us, and that means opening windows to let in the fresh air! Except my next-door neighbors smoke on their porch quite often. This results in cigarette or cigar smoke wafting into the closest windows, which happen to be in my living room. The duplexes in this neighborhood are a driveway apart from each other, so we're ( Read more... )

I've noticed over several years that mosquitoes love to hang out by my front door and the side of the house adjacent to the driveway. I also know that birds -- sparrows, robins, & crows mostly -- will spend time in or near the tree in front of my house and occasionally visit the upstairs porch. Does anyone know of a great way to kill droves of ( Read more... )

Y'all are brilliant so I'm coming to you with this annoying problem in which I can't find an app I saw on a clip of the Martha Stewart show. I saw it a while ago while browsing through the site, I THINK it was an Earth Day episode, or else the theme was just environmentally friendly. I've searched as much as I can on there and Google but I'm not ( Read more... )

so i think this is my first post here.. i must say that i love this community ( Read more... )

I thought it might be fun to share what we use baking soda + vinegar for (or just baking soda, or just vinegar). I love this stuff, use it to clean the drains in the sinks and tubs about once a week. I dump in about 1/4 cup of baking soda and a cup or so of vinegar, let it sit and work thru the drain for about 20 minutes and then run a light stream ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again...time to turn the furnace back on.  Drat.

I'm tired of buying the disposable filters at Home Depot for $20 a pop. Has anyone tried the washable permanent air filters like this one from Amazon?

If so: Do they seem to work well? Is washing them relatively simple? Anything else I should know about these as an alternative to ( Read more... )

 When considering both ease of implementation and energy savings, what do you consider the best ways to cut costs related to energy consumption in your home?

Hubby and I recently bought our first house and we are for the most part pretty novice as homeowners. I am looking for safe and perhaps more environmentally friendly ways to clean and take care of typical household repairs. Today's issue is a slow draining tub. We bought Drano but if there's a safer method (for the pipes) I'd love to hear one ( Read more... )

So I know this isn't very GREEN of me..but I really love catalogs. Like actual tangible-hold in your hands-catalogs. Fashion catalogs, gift catalogs, house decor catalogs...*dreamy ( Read more... )

I'm sure this goes around every so often but I'm in the mood now to hear others wax enthusiastic about cleaning products from toilet to tub, carpet to laundry. What do you use? Why do you like it? Natural, conventional, or homemade, let me have it ( Read more... )