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Ballet shoes and a bicycle for $5

Ballet shoes and a bicycle for $5

Greener fabrics and recycled materials can help cut your shopping footprint, but the most sustainable way to buy is secondhand.You can go a bit more upscale with vintage or from shops that do the screening like Buffalo Exchange. Or you can sift through the tons of clothing, furniture and ... read more

7 months ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty Diaries: training via skype

Potty Diaries: training via skype

Our faircompanies baby is not quite two, but thanks to a lot of time from grandma and her Slow Potty Training method, she seems to understand how to put her own bottom on the loo (saving us, and the landfills, a lot of dirty diapers). In this video, Inés consults ... read more

9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty diaries: quality time on the loo

Potty diaries: quality time on the loo

During her first diaper-free summer, faircompanies' baby Inés spent a lot of time with her potty training grandparents. From the moment grandma took off her diaper in June (age 16 months) until we left for our home in Barcelona in August (18 months), Inés spent many hours drawing, reading, talking ... read more

9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty Diaries: pee pee on the train

Potty Diaries: pee pee on the train

When you're trying to get a kid out of diapers as early as possible- to avoid the thousands of diapers, and trees, needed per year-, there are a few locations that can prove challenging for getting a tiny tush on a toilet.In this video, we travel by train ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty diaries: starting to ask to go

Potty diaries: starting to ask to go

In this installment of our diaper training journey, Inés has started to ask to go pee pee or poo poo, though uses the word pee pee for both actions. It's not every time so can be frustrating, but she only has pee accidents and with no carpet, pee pee ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty diaries: time for underwear

Potty diaries: time for underwear

After spending the summer with her potty training grandparents, faircompanies toddler Inés is now 18-months and fairly trained: she always holds her poop and often asks to go pee.Now it's time for underwear. In this video, grandpa shows her how to put on her new panties, she works ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty diaries: waiting for baby

Potty diaries: waiting for baby

In our attempt to save on all that diaper waste- either hundreds of disposables or water for washing the cloth variety-, we decided to get our baby out of diapers before today's average of about 2-and-a-half to 3-years-old. Given our lack of understanding of just exactly what it takes ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Potty diaries: how to pull down your pants

Potty diaries: how to pull down your pants

After a month of training, faircompanies' toddler 17-month-old Inés is starting to go potty on her own. In this installment of the potty diaries, her potty training grandpa works with her on the easiest way to pull down her pants, she pulls down her pants on her own and we ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

How a broken bench became a bookshelf

How a broken bench became a bookshelf

Designers Loida and Hernâni of Timtimxtimtim can't watch good material go to waste so when they witnessed a broken bench on a Barcelona street being carted off to the dump, they intervened. In this video, they show us how they turned the bench into a one-of-a-kind book shelf, complete ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

 How to consume more responsibly

How to consume more responsibly

In most countries in the world we can't seem to stop buying. Worldwide, about three quarters of us own at least one television set. There were 41 million new passenger vehicles in 2001, 5 times as many as in 1950. 91% of Americans consider a car a necessity and ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

 

 

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