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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 ...
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7 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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 ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments