The following advice will help me: save money? use natural products in my home? eliminate toxins from my life? be green and environmentally conscious? Sold! I wanted to share them with you: .

The following advice will help me: save money? use natural products in my home? eliminate toxins from my life? be green and environmentally conscious? Sold! I wanted to share them with you: .
April 12, 2012
Categories: Family, Environment, Social Responsibility, Health, Money and Consumerism . Tags: environment and conservation, Health, shopping, saving money, going green and recycling, healthy living, natural health and beauty, dangerous chemical, financial responsibility, tips and advice, do-it-yourself (DIY), 573 Ways to Save Money, Peter Sander and Jennifer Sander, Read this. . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: 3 Comments
I stand firm for a movement against screen-run lives. Technology is taking over my life. In my goals, I noted that “tv=evil.” Let’s extend that to all screens: phones, video games, computers, tablets, iPods. (Yes, I understand the irony of blogging this information.) Reasons to war against excessive media use: You sleep best when it’s [...]
March 7, 2012
Categories: Family, Health, Socializing . Tags: anti-television and anti-screens, children and youth, going green and recycling, manners and etiquette, media and television, parenting responsibility, shopping, weight loss and exercise . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: 2 Comments
What have I been up to? Very recently, the answer would be: feeling like a lazy lump of blubber. I usually focus on how society and other people should change, but let’s be honest: I need to start with myself. (No, this does not mean that you are off the hook.) What does this list [...]
March 4, 2012
Categories: Diary-style, Health . Tags: eating well, going green and recycling, Health, healthy living, local and independent business, organic, parenting responsibility, shopping, social responsibility, weight loss and exercise, women's health . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: Leave a Comment
I was shopping for dresses online at Forever21 (rare, trust me) and I click on the “career” category. These are the dresses that Forever21 categorizes as career: For what career are these appropriate? Leggings are too casual to wear to work so how are you supposed to cover up the rest of your thigh? In [...]
July 6, 2011
Categories: Gender, Uncategorized . Tags: Forever21, race class and gender, self respect, shopping, women . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: 1 Comment
If you’ve walked through a checkout line in the last few weeks, you’ll see pictures of a distraught Sandra Bullock splattered on the front pages of fluff gossip magazines. The big news in America: her husband Jesse James has been cheating. (Yes, this is the news we should be reading.) I’m sure that after discovering [...]
April 6, 2010
Categories: Social Responsibility, Socializing . Tags: healthy relationships, Sandra Bullock, shopping, social responsibility . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: 1 Comment
The 3/50 Project encourages citizens to do the right thing by spending $50 a month in three locally owned businesses of their choice. The genius behind this project is that “for every $100 spent in locally owned independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spent that at [...]
February 19, 2010
Categories: Social Responsibility, Money and Consumerism . Tags: Baltimore, local and independent business, shopping, Towson . Author: Cari Crabtree . Comments: 1 Comment