Yesterday my wife and I took the plunge after returning from our vacation. We bought six reusable bags from whole foods for 99 cents each.

Whole Foods

This is part of our challenge of going green in our home. We are simply sick and tired of collecting the plastic bag and ultimately them ending up in our landfills. I do use the plastic bag again and pack my sack lunches. Here are some more green tips to help save you some money and the environment.

1. Switch your light bulbs to compact fluorescents
2. Unplug electric devices (they are still pull electricity even though they are shut off)
3. Remove excess weight from your car to help improve gas mileage
4. Telecommute at least one day a we to work
5. Ask your utility company for a free home energy audit.

Check out the environmental defense website for many more green tips.

Environmental Defense

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This weekend my wife and I planted our garden in our new raised garden. Last year we had our garden flood multiple times and we didn’t have a very productive crop. Plus the top soil here is about 2 inches thick and then you hit clay so it wasn’t very good for irrigation. We have a lot of high hopes this year!

This year we planted tomatoes, potatoes, green onions, green peppers, green beans, zucchini, and peas. Had to ask the in-laws on how far apart and how many potatoes to plant in each hole. They’ve been gardening since Adam and Eve started, so they have pretty good knowledge about how to do it! I also put up a protective fence around the garden too, because we had a problem last year with bunnies eating our green pepper plant. They chew on that like its candy.


Hope it will look like this at the end of the year!


With that said today we’ve officially started our 30 day – Go Green challenge and over the next month I’ll be blogging about how our family is going green. Our garden is one other way that our family is seeking to raise organic food at home. I’ll also give some tips on what we are doing to go “more green” and the benefits. Just like the multiple streams of income challenge has been a great motivator I think that going green will really challenge our family to live more environmentally friendly.

Now for the Multiple Streams of Income challenge update – yesterday our baby crib bedding set sold for $51.52, which I added to the challenge. We are officially up to $565.43 on day #23, and we are going to push hard the last 7 days.

Lastly, we got good news on Friday that we had over paid our home insurance escrow and we got a big fat check for $193. That is $193 that is going straight towards paying extra on my student loan. Still have an objective to pay all of that off before the baby comes. It’s a lofty goal, but then again I doubted that I’d be able to raise $500 for my current challenge.

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