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10 More Products Banned from My Home and Their Alternatives

Posted on October 8, 2022April 19, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A folded handkerchief with a pink and blue cat design sits on a grey cutting mat. More handkerchiefs sit in a pile to the left of the folded one.

Keep money in the bank and stuff out of landfill by avoiding these products that have simple and often free or very cheap alternatives.

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12 Tips for Inexpensive Selfcare that Creates (Almost) No Trash

Posted on November 5, 2020December 13, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau

These low-waste, self-care ideas can help alleviate stress and anxiety without requiring you to spend money buying stuff you don’t need.

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7 Ways to Spot Greenwashing and How to Avoid It

Posted on January 30, 2020January 23, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau

We consumers want to do the right thing and marketers know this. Hence the vague language, fuzzy animals and other greenwashing tactics.

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21 Consumer Products You Can (Likely) Live Without

Posted on April 26, 2017January 27, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Updated 12/18/17: This post does NOT contain affiliate links. If you buy any of the products I link to below, I will NOT receive a commission. I haven’t written a rant for some time… I was slow to see the hit show Mad Men. I found it difficult to watch a bunch of white, sexist, […]

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7 Big Food Marketing Gimmicks

Posted on March 12, 2015December 18, 2015by Anne-Marie Bonneau

I’m surprised no store employee or manager escorted me from the supermarket premises today. Looking for food to snap pictures of for this post, I kind of went a bit crazy once I started. I found so much material! If aspects such as added sugar, overpackaging and dead food lacking nutrients don’t turn you off of processed food, […]

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