Sustainable Living: For Home, Neighborhood and Community by Mick Winter
For families that are having financial problems, this book is a breath of fresh air. It contains many ideas for energy and money savings. If you save energy, you save the environment and also your pocket. It also explains how you can work together with your neighbors and community and get benefits from it.
This books helps us to buy less, save more, help the planet and feel better with ourselves.
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Due to my father’s Alzheimer disease, my single room at my parents house was changed to receive my father’s new bed. Once my mother is going to take care of him at home, we had to ask for a hospital bed to give my father some comfort and give my mother some more mobility to feed him, wash him and change diapers.
In a normal bed it was very difficult to sit him once he has no control of his body. With the hospital bed and through a mechanic device …

Yesterday I wrote a post about diabetes and today I just knew about a campaign for a Zero Sugar product. Everyday more and more people search for Zero Sugar products not only due to health issues but also for diet purposes.
The newly released Coke zero offers Real Taste and Zero Sugar. It has an interesting campaign called: Coke zero : Life as it should be, where you can make your own black & white movie and you can even write the lines the actors will say on the movie. It’s …

Do you know that you can save some money on the term life insurance you have related to your home loan?
Most people don’t know that some banks don’t send the update amount in debt to the insurance company. That happened to me. I payed for 6 years my monthly loan payment to the bank and although the amount I owed the bank was decreasing every year, the bank never updated that amount, meaning 6 years after being paying for my loan I was still paying the term life insurance as …

If you are going to travel and you have diabetes there are some points you need to take into consideration:

You should make the diabetes control the same way you do all year but with some extra care.
Try to eat more or less the same that you usually eat and drink a lot of liquids to avoid dehydration specially in hot climates.
It’s important to avoid gastroenteritis (diahrea) and vomits (that can cause hypoglycemia).
Who gets seasick easily should take some pills to avoid the condition.
Insulin dependents people should take with them …

One of the things I miss to feel well with myself is time to “put me fashionable”. I have only a few clothes, I use and abuse of jeans and t-shirts even at work and I barely use jewelry. For some people jewelry means diamonds, gold, silver but there are beautiful and fashion jewelry at affordable prices, we can even make some pieces at home. Right now, and to lift my self esteem, I really need new clothes and a few more jewelry pieces.
It’s important for ourselves to know …

Do you have many gardening tools and you don’t have a special space to put them? Depending on the space you have available on your garden or yard you can build a small shed or a bigger one that you can also use as a working space for your bricolage. You can choose wood or steel buildings, they usually come as kits and are very easy to mount. Choose the one that fits best on your garden.