Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 30, 2009, 3:21 am
Hello everyone! Well, tomorrow it will be December and no doubt I'll get busier than ever. I wrote a whole post about me being a bahumbugger but I realised that pretty much every post I've p...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 28, 2009, 6:51 am
On Children Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with yo...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 25, 2009, 5:44 am
Hi everyone! I had a lovely day today. My friend Bec came over and we had a lovely time catching up and crafting together. There's something wonderful about sitting around a crafting table, cha...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 23, 2009, 5:32 am
Hey everyone! Okay, so I'm determined to find my bojo* by forcing myself to blog. So I went over to one of my favourite sources of blog-writing inspiration, Blog This, and saw that this week'...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 22, 2009, 5:42 am
Leopard Sleeping on the Tree. Photo by Najeebkhan I chose this photo because this is how I'm feeling at the moment. Hello everyone! Firstly, a big sorry for the long time in between posts. We&#...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 18, 2009, 4:07 am
Hi everyone, Regular readers here would know that I recently took advantage of the Government's Green Loans Program. The house inspection was fantastic and I got heaps of tips on how to make my ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 16, 2009, 5:51 am
Hello everyone! I hope you've had a good start to the week. The last few months have been, understandably, challenging ones for my children. There are times when the stress they are under has m...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 15, 2009, 5:39 am
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. A big thank you to everyone who contacted me or commented me here to talk about their own experiences with depression and self-harm. I still ha...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 12, 2009, 3:25 pm
Hello everyone! I'm very excited today. Because today, I will be going to work with this henna tattoo on my arm: I have "love" on my arm so that I can raise awareness of depression, self-harm an...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 11, 2009, 4:48 am
Hello everyone, Firstly a big thank you to all of you who posted, emailed or contacted me on Facebook to celebrate my garden's first 'harvest'. Your encouragement on my journey to learn h...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 9, 2009, 3:45 am
But some of them were really small....is that normal? Hello everyone! I came home from work today and got all excited when I saw some of my potato plants had turned yellow and withered! So I spent ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 7, 2009, 11:21 pm
Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. I had a busy but productive weekend with my children. My daughter and I went on a mother-daughter date on Saturday night and had a ball eati...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 6, 2009, 2:42 am
Hello everyone, Sorry for not blogging yesterday. I started to write a blog post but then I lost my net connection...grrrr... Is it just me or don't you think its incredibly unfair when your net ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 4, 2009, 12:29 am
Hello everyone, This is going to be a short post because I woke up very very early 6:00am! Okay so I know that's not really early but that's early to me. Since my kids stopped waking at 5am,...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Nov 2, 2009, 11:57 pm
Hello everyone! I've climbed back down from my boabb*! I have to admit, I missed blogging! Still not blogging gave me some extra time to squeeze in some crafting and sewing - ... (suprisingly) ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 28, 2009, 4:02 am
Hello everyone! Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who participated in my post at the Simple Green Frugal Co-op on Christmas Gift Ideas. What a great list we're compiling over there! Recently...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 24, 2009, 10:33 pm
Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. As you know yesterday, I went to Parliament House to attend the 350 rally. It was also my kids' first rally! They spent most of th...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 23, 2009, 2:54 am
"Boab trees" Photo by Yewenyi The Australian Boab Tree can be found in Western Australia and Northern Territory. According to one legend of the Aboriginal people in the area, the Boab Tree was crea...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 19, 2009, 5:17 pm
Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful week. A big thank you to everyone who messaged and commented in my last post. I found reading your thoughts and experiences on the issue really he...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 16, 2009, 6:08 pm
Hello everyone, Firstly a big thank you to everyone who participated in the "one tip to live an eco-friendly life"! I enjoyed reading your tips and for those who left their blog address, I also enjo...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 15, 2009, 2:51 am
Hello everyone! As many of you know, today is Blog Action Day. Now in the past I have talked about *my* climate change. I hear about climate change in the news. I read about it in the papers and o...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 14, 2009, 4:53 am
Hello everyone! So yesterday, I gave a sneak preview of what was in my sewing machine. I'm proud to say that last night I finished it! My daughter's school bag had worn down at the bottom (...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 13, 2009, 1:35 am
... ". For new readers to my blog (welcome!), you may want to head on over there and get a bit more of an understanding on why I am on this journey to a simpler life. In the meantime, I thought I&#...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 12, 2009, 4:05 am
Pizza ingredients. Photo by J Colman Hello everyone! As some of you may know, Cath asked me a few days ago how I got my grocery bill down to an average of $70 a week. So I thought I'd elaborate ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 10, 2009, 10:42 pm
Hello everyone! Well, its now middle of Spring here in Oz - we're experiencing the standard October cold snap at the moment but I know that this cold snap will soon give way to warm summer weathe...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 9, 2009, 3:50 am
... After all, I managed to furnish my entire house, including white goods, little kitchen items etc for under $1,000. I also use only second-hand materials (sourced from op-shops) for sewing cloth...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 8, 2009, 5:48 am
because I didn't even realise that this blog of mine had made it as a finalist in Business Mums' Network's "Favourite Australian Blog by a Business Mum" - in the Environment/Eco-Friendly C...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 7, 2009, 5:19 am
Photo by Jayel Aheram Hello everyone, I had an interesting conversation with my daughter (Miss J, 6 years old) tonight that I thought I'd share. Just a bit of a background, Miss J recently disc...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 6, 2009, 5:22 am
... exhausted yesterday to blog about the other talk I attended at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Anyway here it is now: My notes from Baroness Susan Greenfield's ... the piano. The third ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 4, 2009, 4:01 am
Hello everyone! Oh dear, it seems to me I keep breaking my "no-technology Sundays". Ah well, I am planning on a big day out with my children tomorrow (Monday) as its a public holiday, so I probably ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 3, 2009, 3:58 am
Hello everyone! I hope your weekend is going well. Last night I finally caught up with reading many of my favourite blogs. I’m so glad I did because Gleaner posted about the Festival of Danger...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 2, 2009, 3:34 am
Hello everyone, A couple of days ago, Ryan asked me where I learned how to build my nest egg and not have credit cards. You know, I think its great when you guys ask me questions like that because i...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Oct 1, 2009, 5:50 am
Hello everyone, One more day to go till the weekend! Now a few days ago, a reader here asked me to write up a little bit about Canberra - which I refer to here as "ONC - Our Nation's Capital". ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 30, 2009, 3:36 am
Hello everyone, Today I have good reason to celebrate, because today I finally got all of my money back! Thank you all for your empathy and well wishes. While I am very happy with getting my money ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 29, 2009, 4:39 am
Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who commented and offered their sympathies in my last post. I will reply there soon but the short answer is that I have now received half of my money back. I don...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 28, 2009, 3:48 am
Hello everyone, I've had a hell of a day (Monday). See, ACTEWAGL took my ENTIRE nest egg!! Yep, the same nest egg I have been working so hard to build up. For those not in the ONC*, ACTEWAGL is ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 27, 2009, 6:05 pm
Hello everyone! On impulse, I've decided to dedicate this entire week on OPTIMISM and LAUGHTER. I am emerging from a wonderful weekend of catching up with friends and family, and allowing my en...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 25, 2009, 3:10 am
Hello everyone! Amazing how quickly this week is going by for me. As usual, I've been busy doing things but I'm afraid this week, much of my energies are going towards things that are not re...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 23, 2009, 6:48 am
Hello everyone, You know, I've noticed in many blogs that there are regular "round-ups" of some sort. I always enjoy these round-ups and discovering new sites or new information. Anyway, I thou...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 21, 2009, 5:43 am
Hi everyone, Just a quick post today 'cause its been one of those days for me. No biggie, just more feeling the need to craft rather than blog. (I'm sure every craft blogger gets days like t...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 20, 2009, 2:40 am
Hello everyone! Yep, today I am kinda breaking my no-technology Sunday because.... I didn't use any technology yesterday (Saturday). So I figure I've got "credits" owing to me. Speaking of c...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 18, 2009, 7:31 am
A story... An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots,each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 17, 2009, 4:03 am
Photo by Wasabi Noise Hey everyone, Its raining here at ONC today! How wonderful! While I love love beautiful clear days, the drought (is it really a drought? maybe its permanent climate change?) ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 15, 2009, 10:22 pm
Hello everyone, Sorry for not updating here yesterday. I had posted in the Co-op and didn't get the chance to also write another article here. See, last 2 days, I've been spending some time...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 14, 2009, 7:00 am
Flowers getting ready to bloom at Floriade Photo by Digika Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I read with interest this week's Blog This challenge: "Can you do without..." ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 12, 2009, 2:37 am
Phew I've had a very very busy day today and I'm so glad to be finally sitting down to blog! Last night and this morning, I went to the Handmade markets and bought a TON of goodies (actually ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 11, 2009, 3:06 am
Hello all! Just a quick post because I'm about to head out to the Handmade Markets tonight. I just thought I'd update on how I'm going with my well-being and financial goals. Well-being...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 10, 2009, 5:33 am
Hello everyone, As many of you know, I am a big believer that media literacy is an essential part of a simple life. Media is such a pervasive part of life that one needs to be able to deconstruct it...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 9, 2009, 7:42 am
... . Its been awhile since I've embarked on a big sewing project. I find that when it comes to sewing and crafting, when I take a long(ish) break from ... fast forward to 1:28 to go straight ...
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Eilleen posted an article on Consumption Rebellion - Sep 8, 2009, 3:40 am
it's true, I am. I came home from a long day at work today to find unexpected gifts. In the mail, I received chocolate from The Crone. Oops already opened! I couldn't resist! And then as ...
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