Amy Livingston
@haverwench.bsky.social
Freelance writer, frugal/green living blogger, climate activist, childless cat lady, cruciverbalist, RPG player, and Morris dancer. She (subject)/her (object), never the reverse.
Our biggest Christmas gift to my in-laws this year was hauling away some of their unwanted clutter. The challenge now is to keep it from becoming *our* unwanted clutter. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The gift of less stuff, Midwest edition
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December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Our biggest Christmas gift to my in-laws this year was hauling away some of their unwanted clutter. The challenge now is to keep it from becoming *our* unwanted clutter. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Lacking a printed seed catalog to take on tomorrow's long car trip, we went through this year's seed selections ahead of time. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/gard...
Gardeners' Holidays 2025: The Changing of the Garden
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December 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Lacking a printed seed catalog to take on tomorrow's long car trip, we went through this year's seed selections ahead of time. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/gard...
Our Recipe of the Month for December is a dessert that looks and tastes very wholesome, but sadly, isn't as healthy as it appears. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/reci...
Recipe of the Month: Apple Brown Betty
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December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Our Recipe of the Month for December is a dessert that looks and tastes very wholesome, but sadly, isn't as healthy as it appears. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/reci...
We spent most of this afternoon moving leaves around in our yard--adding them where they were useful and removing them where they weren't. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/addi...
Adding and removing leaves
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December 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
We spent most of this afternoon moving leaves around in our yard--adding them where they were useful and removing them where they weren't. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/addi...
The key to veganizing pumpkin pie, it turns out, is the same as for vegan mozzarella: kappa carageenan. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/bonu...
Bonus recipe: Vegan pumpkin pie
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December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The key to veganizing pumpkin pie, it turns out, is the same as for vegan mozzarella: kappa carageenan. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/12/bonu...
In the past week, we've found fixes for three different problems by substituting ingenuity for money. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/thre...
Three quick fixes
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November 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In the past week, we've found fixes for three different problems by substituting ingenuity for money. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/thre...
This Smoked Cauliflower Soup recipe from Everyday Happy Herbivore gets a passing grade, but not an outstanding one.
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Recipe of the Month: Smoked Cauliflower Soup
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November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This Smoked Cauliflower Soup recipe from Everyday Happy Herbivore gets a passing grade, but not an outstanding one.
ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/reci...
ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/reci...
Finally got the hell strip all turfed out and planted. Now we play the waiting for seeds to germinate game. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/tami...
Taming the hell strip, part 2
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November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Finally got the hell strip all turfed out and planted. Now we play the waiting for seeds to germinate game. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/tami...
This fall, we've had a disappointing harvest in the garden, but a surprising windfall of a crop we didn't plant ourselves. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/gard...
Gardeners' Holidays 2025: Late Harvest
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November 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This fall, we've had a disappointing harvest in the garden, but a surprising windfall of a crop we didn't plant ourselves. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/11/gard...
A friend on Facebook raised an interesting point: If no one reviewed the plans for Trump's new ballroom, did anyone vet the construction crew? You know, to make sure they're not bugging the place? www.facebook.com/steve.anders...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A friend on Facebook raised an interesting point: If no one reviewed the plans for Trump's new ballroom, did anyone vet the construction crew? You know, to make sure they're not bugging the place? www.facebook.com/steve.anders...
Just discovered there is a blog called Simple Vegetarian Concept on which *every single post* is plagiarized from my blog, Ecofrugal Living. What I can't figure out is why. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/ive-...
I've been plagiarized
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October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Just discovered there is a blog called Simple Vegetarian Concept on which *every single post* is plagiarized from my blog, Ecofrugal Living. What I can't figure out is why. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/ive-...
Two new recipes this month, one sweet and one savory--and and one much more successful than the other. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/reci...
Recipes of the Month: Tofu Sushi and Apple Fritter Cups
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October 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Two new recipes this month, one sweet and one savory--and and one much more successful than the other. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/reci...
Our haul from this year's town-wide yard sale may not look too impressive, but it includes a couple of particularly stellar bargains. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/yard...
Yard-sale haul 2025
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October 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Our haul from this year's town-wide yard sale may not look too impressive, but it includes a couple of particularly stellar bargains. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/yard...
With my blood sugar levels once again creeping upward, I decided I needed to look for some easy ways to hack my diet. One tool I'm exploring: hemp hearts. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/prot...
Protein hacking
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October 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
With my blood sugar levels once again creeping upward, I decided I needed to look for some easy ways to hack my diet. One tool I'm exploring: hemp hearts. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/prot...
Last year, we decided to try growing garlic in our old rain barrel. The result was...not amazing, but definitely not bad. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/our-...
Our first barrel-grown garlic crop
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October 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Last year, we decided to try growing garlic in our old rain barrel. The result was...not amazing, but definitely not bad. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/10/our-...
In the past month, Brian defended his title as Master Tinkerer over three rounds of household repairs and emerged victorious once again. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/retu...
Return of the Master Tinkerer
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September 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In the past month, Brian defended his title as Master Tinkerer over three rounds of household repairs and emerged victorious once again. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/retu...
This week, the garden seems to have devoted most of its resources to producing one enormous zucchini. Fortunately, there are more veggies waiting in the wings. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/gard...
Gardeners' Holidays 2025: Harvest Home
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September 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This week, the garden seems to have devoted most of its resources to producing one enormous zucchini. Fortunately, there are more veggies waiting in the wings. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/gard...
Seriously considering a $100 bet that Trump is still in office at the end of 2025. If he is, I win $5, and if he isn't, best $100 I ever spent. www.investopedia.com/people-are-p...
People Are Putting Money on Whether Trump Will End 2025 in the White House
An internet's fixation on the president's well-being has given way to wagers on prediction markets on whether he will remain in power at the end of 2025.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Seriously considering a $100 bet that Trump is still in office at the end of 2025. If he is, I win $5, and if he isn't, best $100 I ever spent. www.investopedia.com/people-are-p...
So, for those who (like me) have been worried, yes, you can get your COVID booster this fall in NJ. www.nj.gov/health/news/...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
So, for those who (like me) have been worried, yes, you can get your COVID booster this fall in NJ. www.nj.gov/health/news/...
September's Recipe of the Month is a broccoli soup that doesn't look or taste much like other broccoli soups--but does bear a striking resemblance to another old favorite. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/reci...
Recipe of the Month: Spiced Healthy Broccoli Soup
We're in the middle of another busy weekend. Between the library book sale this morning, my Citizen's Climate Lobby meeting and a series of errands this afternoon, and a dance performance tomorrow, this evening is just about the only time I have free to dash off a blog entry. So this post is just going to be a quickie to tell you about our Recipe of the Month for September.
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September 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
September's Recipe of the Month is a broccoli soup that doesn't look or taste much like other broccoli soups--but does bear a striking resemblance to another old favorite. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/reci...
Haiku for today:
The leaves blaze brightly
No executive order
Can dim their glory
The leaves blaze brightly
No executive order
Can dim their glory
September 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Haiku for today:
The leaves blaze brightly
No executive order
Can dim their glory
The leaves blaze brightly
No executive order
Can dim their glory
In a nutshell: "maybe it’s time for rightwing nutjobs to join us leftwing nutjobs in embracing solar energy."
Rightwing preppers should be the biggest boosters of this climate solution: We’re beyond Mel Gibson’s Mad Max era. We no longer need oil to make it through the apocalypse As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: “The history and future of societal collaps...
Rightwing preppers should be the biggest boosters of this climate solution
Rightwing preppers should be the biggest boosters of this climate solution: We’re beyond Mel Gibson’s Mad Max era. We no longer need oil to make it through the apocalypse As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: “The history and future of societal collaps...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In a nutshell: "maybe it’s time for rightwing nutjobs to join us leftwing nutjobs in embracing solar energy."
I just learned about libraries of things, and now I really want one in my town--but finding a space for it would be a challenge. Is there an easier alternative? #ecofrugality #sharingeconomy ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
September 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I just learned about libraries of things, and now I really want one in my town--but finding a space for it would be a challenge. Is there an easier alternative? #ecofrugality #sharingeconomy ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Our biggest labor this Labor Day weekend was an impromptu clean-out and reorganization of our garden shed. Out with the old, in with...most of the same old, but neater. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/shed...
Shedding deadweight
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September 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Our biggest labor this Labor Day weekend was an impromptu clean-out and reorganization of our garden shed. Out with the old, in with...most of the same old, but neater. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/09/shed...
My individual actions can never help the planet as much as big, collective actions. But that doesn't mean they doesn't matter. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/08/indi...
Individual action vs. collective action
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August 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My individual actions can never help the planet as much as big, collective actions. But that doesn't mean they doesn't matter. ecofrugality.blogspot.com/2025/08/indi...