Good Economic/Ecological Practices for Consumers

The scam email (below) that I just received this morning is a great reason to use LastPass or any other reputable password safe so you can have a unique password for each and every account. I have somewhere around 800 different online accounts. The person behind this email is trying to blackmail me.  https://haveibeenpwned.com/ helped me locate which accounts associated with "tim@oey.us" username/email have had known hacks with the data sold. "LinkedIn: In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. The passwords in the breach were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt, the vast majority of which were quickly cracked in the days following the release of the data." (information from https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ) See also: https://www.troyhunt.com/observations-and-thoughts-on-the-linkedin-data-breach/

I've tried many toilet paper options to minimize waste and harmful impacts to our environment and the best compromise I've found are the toilet papers from Who Gives A Crap - a good balance of quality, affordability, and environmental  friendliness.  Plus their toilet paper rolls are very entertaining! It's great to get a smile or a laugh or 2 in unexpected places. If you would like to try them, here is a referral link  https://www.talkable.com/x/MruQEZ Thanks and enjoy!

This post is a bit late but better late than never. Yes you can haul a Christmas tree by bike although it helps to have a trailer when you do.

Yes dogs are welcome to poop in front of our house as long as the owner scoops the poop and leaves it at our dog poop station. No need to carry the smelly poop with you. :-) We empty the scoop as needed into our zero waste dog poop handling facility as documented at: https://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-best-way-to-handle-dog-poop.html Happy New Year!