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Easy moving tips – Boxes!

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CF / September 29th, 2011 / 1 Comment

The big day is TODAY and I am very excited. I can’t wait to get settled into the new place. I wrote earlier this month about strategies for packing. Today I want to talk about one of the pre-requisites of packing – boxes. Boxes can be expensive. I am not sure why this is, but it is so. Boxes from U-Haul for example, range from $85 for an “apartment kit” to several hundred...

Posted in: Life Hacks, Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: boxes, cheap, environment, free, moving, recycle, repurpose, reuse

Easy moving tips – Packing!

CF / September 13th, 2011 / 2 Comments

I move every year or two, generally to save money, other times due to misfortune (eg. building fire). Indeed, I like moving! I like the sense of change and the chance to purge my life of a bit more stuff. Some people don’t like moving due to the expense, the transitory state, and the effort. I’ve gotten pretty good at moving though and it usually cost me very little money, doesn’t...

Posted in: Home, Life Hacks Tagged with: moving tips, packing

Foraging for your food

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CF / July 29th, 2011 / No Comments

BC, and the the Pacific Northwest in general, is blessed with a variety of edible plants, mushrooms and fruit. It is legal to forage for edible plants and mushrooms in Canadian crown lands, and if you are knowledgeable, the forests contain a wealth of food. There are many resources that can help you identify edible plants and mushrooms. Here are a few of my favourite free edibles: Berries This...

Posted in: Food and Grocery, Life Hacks Tagged with: berries, fiddleheads, finding wild mushrooms, foraging, mushrooms, pacific northwest, picking wild food, salmonberries

Almost free emergency kits

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CF / July 12th, 2011 / No Comments

Here’s a quickie while I’m slaving away at probability homework: Brian and I have emergency kits that we keep at work which contain water, food, and a rudimentary first aid kit. We have a larger “earthquake stash” but these are smaller, portable personal kits. For the container, we use large plastic bulk nut jars that I salvaged from the recycling pile and washed out. We fill...

Posted in: Home, Life Hacks Tagged with: earthquake prepardness, Emergency supplies, first aid