http://ourcompactlife.com Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We went into a super expensive store in Canmore a few weeks ago and I found a little sweater tank top deal that I loved for $140. No thank you. But I thought, I could make that. So I went to the thrift store and got this lovely sweater for ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=164 So, it has been almost a week since our officially official compact came to an end. I have been really quite grumpy this week. I am struggling with feeling guilty and mad when about to buy something or in a place where I could buy something. It is really annoying ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=161 As 2008 drew to a close last night Malora and I both felt very proud and relieved about what we had done throughout the past year. We went an entire year without buying anything new. No shopping malls - No Old Navy. Nothing. We didn't cheat or break down and ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=159 I posted last week that we were going to be on the CBC National news. We got bumped from the program that evening and we were not sure if we were going to be on it at all. It was kind of embarrassing because we told a bunch of people ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=154 We made it through Christmas in our year without shopping. Christmas was the one holiday that I was worried about because it is the most obviously consumer based holiday (next to groundhogs day). The music, art, and spirit of Christmas are all bound up in the trappings of gifts and ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=149 We are supposed to be on the CBC National news tonight at 10pm. It is exciting to share our story with all of Canada. I will try to upload the video after it airs. http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=147 I have been a busy little elf trying to get Christmas gifts ready for one and all. Well, not really all. A few. I wanted to show my new Christmas card I created that I am really quite pleased with. I was able to reuse brown paper bags from some ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=142 We were featured on CityTV's Breakfast Television. The host, Dave Kelly, interviewed us about our past year and our eating habits while driving. He was a really funny, nice guy and I think we will definitely tune into BTV more often (once we get rabbit ears that are not broken). ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=138 We are coming to the end of our experiencement of not shopping for one year. Only three more weeks to go but we still have the largest brick wall ahead of us: Christmas. Ask any kid and they will tell you that the true meaning of Christmas is getting presents. Sure, ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=112 It is simply appalling that our greed has reached the point where we will literally trample people to death to get a deal on something. When the stuff that we consume, consumes us and turns us into robots with no concern for anything other then what we can get, we ... http://ourcompactlife.com/?p=110