Comments on: Eco Links: Cut the Cord Edition http://frugallygreen.org/eco-links-cut-the-cord-edition/ Saving Earth one dollar at a time Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tyler http://frugallygreen.org/eco-links-cut-the-cord-edition/#comment-747 Tyler Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:36 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1146#comment-747 Mom (#1), That's a tempting offer, but I don't think I want to trade one baby blanket for another. Why don't you take the TV and keep the blanket, too? ConsciouslyFrugal, A carnival is just a traveling series of posts that different blogs host each week. Writers (like me and you) submit a post from the previous week to the carnival and whoever is hosting selects the best (or most relevant) ones to assemble into a post highlighting those authors and their articles. Readers follow the carnival from blog to blog each week and discover new writers that each host features. Make sense? In other news, my "No Impact Week" has been a disaster. So much so that I quit taking the surveys because they were depressing me. Maybe next week I'll lay out all my shame. At least the TV is gone! Mom (#1),

That’s a tempting offer, but I don’t think I want to trade one baby blanket for another. Why don’t you take the TV and keep the blanket, too?

ConsciouslyFrugal,

A carnival is just a traveling series of posts that different blogs host each week.

Writers (like me and you) submit a post from the previous week to the carnival and whoever is hosting selects the best (or most relevant) ones to assemble into a post highlighting those authors and their articles.

Readers follow the carnival from blog to blog each week and discover new writers that each host features.

Make sense?

In other news, my “No Impact Week” has been a disaster. So much so that I quit taking the surveys because they were depressing me. Maybe next week I’ll lay out all my shame.

At least the TV is gone!

]]> By: ConsciouslyFrugal http://frugallygreen.org/eco-links-cut-the-cord-edition/#comment-745 ConsciouslyFrugal Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:13 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1146#comment-745 I would like to note that I haven't had enough coffee yet and didn't edit the above comment. Please excuse the nearly-English-but-not-quite bits. I would like to note that I haven’t had enough coffee yet and didn’t edit the above comment. Please excuse the nearly-English-but-not-quite bits.

]]> By: ConsciouslyFrugal http://frugallygreen.org/eco-links-cut-the-cord-edition/#comment-744 ConsciouslyFrugal Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:58 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1146#comment-744 First, what are these carnivals? I've been reading PF blogs for ages now and I still have no idea what these "carnivals" are all about. Yesterday was the no TV portion of our No Impact week and dude, I didn't participate. I watched about an hour's worth and let my husband watch away while I got ready for bed, etc. I am totally hooked to my PBS cooking shows, and my husband has a really hard time functioning without TV. I've finally gotten him to stop using it as background noise while he's on the computer (sometimes, he'll watch a soccer game--with sound--on the computer while the TV is blaring!), but when I mentioned a week-long TV fast in April, he refused. Ah, married life. Did I mention that we live in a less than 500 square feet studio apartment? Yeah. I've found that I'm just sick of the damned noise and all the violence. We don't have cable and it seems like the only thing that's on are variation of CSI and Law & Order, all violent, all the time. First, what are these carnivals? I’ve been reading PF blogs for ages now and I still have no idea what these “carnivals” are all about.

Yesterday was the no TV portion of our No Impact week and dude, I didn’t participate. I watched about an hour’s worth and let my husband watch away while I got ready for bed, etc. I am totally hooked to my PBS cooking shows, and my husband has a really hard time functioning without TV. I’ve finally gotten him to stop using it as background noise while he’s on the computer (sometimes, he’ll watch a soccer game–with sound–on the computer while the TV is blaring!), but when I mentioned a week-long TV fast in April, he refused. Ah, married life.

Did I mention that we live in a less than 500 square feet studio apartment? Yeah.

I’ve found that I’m just sick of the damned noise and all the violence. We don’t have cable and it seems like the only thing that’s on are variation of CSI and Law & Order, all violent, all the time.

]]> By: Susie http://frugallygreen.org/eco-links-cut-the-cord-edition/#comment-743 Susie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1146#comment-743 How about a trade? We need a TV so your dad can watch his stock market shows and you can have your baby blanket back. I've had it stored all these years. How about a trade? We need a TV so your dad can watch his stock market shows and you can have your baby blanket back. I’ve had it stored all these years.

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