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How to Patch Sad Ripped Pant Legs

Posted on March 27, 2025March 27, 2025by Anne-Marie Bonneau
The right pant leg of a beige pair of pants mended with a white patch in the interior. Dark blue thread has been stitched back and forth across the leg around the knee.

Spring has sprung and so have holes in my gardening pants. So I patched them, well, quite visibly. My family asked me if I would wear them in public. I said, why not? Regardless of how they look, my mended pants will last for at least one more season in the yard, I kept stuff […]

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Easy Reusable Cloth Lunch Bag with a Flap Closure

Posted on August 15, 2024August 15, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A homemade flat bottom lunch bag is packed for lunch

When you pack a lunch, you eat more food from home and waste less of it. Sew this reusable lunch bag from fabric scraps and rescue those too.

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What to Pack in a Free, Zero-Waste, Out-and-About Kit

Posted on May 29, 2024May 29, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Packing these everyday, reusable items in an economical, on-the go, zero-waste kit will help you avoid tossing single-use items every day.

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Knowledge for Sale

Posted on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017by Anne-Marie Bonneau

I love writing my blog. But I can’t do it full-time because I am neither independently wealthy—I need a steady income—nor savvy enough to figure out how to make money by advising people not to buy anything. I have tried to think of ways to monazite my blog but to no avail. I work in […]

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