design your intentional life.
It’s all about balance. Whether you’re mindfully experiencing the seasons, caring for your home, organizing your finances in a thoughtful way, planning your next goal, cultivating a gratitude practice, or taking a moment to examine your life via journaling, we are here to help. You can balance your progress with ease, intention, and joy.
25 Experience Gifts to Give Your Friends
Scenic railroad tickets
Apple-picking excursion
Bike rental certificate
Bus tour, trolley tour, day or dinner cruise, swamp tour, or whale watch
Grow a Windowsill Herb Garden
Think about the fresh herbs you typically buy and cook with. Do you use the whole bunch, just composting the stems or adding them to your vegetable stock? If so, great. If your usual recipes call for a smaller amount than it’s possible to buy, though, you may find yourself regularly letting fresh herbs go brown in your crisper drawer.
Get Started Composting
If you’re trying to reduce your food waste as much as possible (perhaps by organizing your kitchen or making more vegetable stock), composting is a logical step on your journey. It keeps those last scraps of food waste out of the landfill and turns them into something better.
Organize Your Kitchen
A simple, clear organizational strategy helps us see how to reduce food waste by buying less food overall and using what do buy after we have it. It has a definite impact on the amount of food we have to throw away.
Make Homemade Vegetable Stock
While you’re cutting up veggies for your meal, take a second to glance skeptically at the contents of your crisper drawer. Is anything still good but getting to the edge? Wash it, chop it, and add it to the stock container in the freezer.
Reduce Plastic in Your Kitchen
Just like tracking your spending or counting your calories, actually looking at what you’re throwing out regularly will let you make the most informed decisions that you can.
Work Toward a Zero Waste Bathroom
We tend to find a configuration and routine in the bathroom and stick to it. We can use those habits to our advantage; once we optimize them, we can just lock in again, and the benefits will compound on their own.
Get a Water Bottle
It takes a plastic bottle at least 450 years to degrade, yet we only recycle 30% of them in the U.S. Ouch.
Optimize Your Coffee Habit
Chances are, you have built some daily habits around your delicious mug of energy juice. That makes it a great opportunity to make a difference.
Reduce Your Mail
Make a list of paper catalogs and flyers you get in the mail, from places you’ve done business with. Check your recycling bin and your credit card history if you need clues to make a comprehensive list.
Join a Farm Share
With community-supported agriculture getting increasingly popular, you may be seeing advertising and hearing whispers about CSAs in your neighborhood. So why consider it, and how should you get started?