The Match Against Poverty

My bf finally got me to go see a football game. Or no, actually it was the second time, but the other time was at Camp Nou and Zlatan was playing..whole other deal. Yesterday I went to Karaiskaki. Olympiakos' stadium. Also called The Tempel, by bf. Why would I do this?

It was the Match Against Poverty. A match arranged by Ronaldo and Zidane to raise funds for the people affected by the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan. Worth it? Yep. Even though it was freezing and all I did for two hours was try to identify all the famous players (Can't they stand still just for a minute?). Made bf happy and helped raise money for people in need, check and check. Good deed OF THE WEEK!

Saving my friends from freezing to death...

Ok. This is totally wrong I know. But.

I am going to use the blog for selfish reasons now. Though not only selfish. I want to do something nice for some of my best friends. Sort of like a Xmas present since I won't be able to go back home this year. And I want to see them because I miss them.

I am in a contest arranged by Swedish travel company Apollo. If I win I get to spend a week with three of my best friends, guest reviewing an all inclusive hotel in Rhodes. It includes flight tickets for my friends and everything. If you follow THIS LINK and click on the orange button that says "rösta" you will help me win, and I will love you forever. (The more votes you give me the more I'll love you. You can vote once a day and from all computers even if they're using the same network)

And you will give my friends something to dream about up there in the cooooold.

The situation in Haiti

The situation in Haiti is getting out of control. Follow this link to donate money. Or if you are a doctor or a nurse, think about helping out on site...

Join the soft toy movement!

We got an apartment! And life seems a bit easier. The new place will cut my living expenses down a bit, which was necessary, but is also bigger than my old studio. And what does this mean? About a thousand trips to IKEA.

I've always been a fan of IKEA. I'm Swedish so it's sort of a given. But since I moved abroad being a fan has developed more into an actual addiction to the company. The kind of fanatism that makes me want to talk about IKEA All. The. Time. They sell Swedish food, they have pictures of Swedish landmarks on the walls, there is Swedish written everywhere. It even smells like Sweden when you walk through the doors and is greeted by that big "HEJ" sign. Oh, and then there's the nice super cheap furniture...

But now to the part of this story that makes it relavant for the blog. IKEA has a campaign going on together with Save the Children and Unicef. For every soft toy you buy 1 euro goes to helping children around the world get an education. For some of the stuffed animals this means every cent goes to this good cause, and That means money is coming straight from IKEAs pockets, and THAT means I have yet another reson to love them. Also, for about a week up until christmas they will expand the campaign to include all the products in the Children's IKEA department.

Now usally I am torn when it comes to this kind of projects. It's obvious that many companies will do this sort of thing just for commercial purposes. Also I don't like the idea that buying these items may settle the conscience of people and make them think they've donated something to charity. This when they've actually just been doing their shopping; and contributing to our crazy consuming that may even hurt children in poor countries in the long run. However, it's christmas time. You're all going to buy toys and stuffed animals for your children anyway. So why not do it at IKEA? It's cheap and the quality is good. So just do it.

Give something

This is pretty much my old life I've gotten back to. Sure I have alot of stuff going on, but then I read about the cholera epidemic in Haiti, and how much worse it has gotten since I last wrote about it. And I feel like a jerk again. This wasn't suppose to be me anymore...

I guess the least I can do is mention what's happening. 1034 people has died, and at least 16.799 are sick. There is war going on in the streets, after rumors getting out about the cholera coming from UN soldiers. It's just totally crazy. As I've said before, cholera is an easily treated disease. We can help by donating money to Doctors Without Borders. Follow this link to donate online (min. amount 5$).

Where I am

I guess I should explain myself.

This blog is a project I really want to go on with. It's something I thought about for a long time before starting it and I think it's a pretty great idea to be honest. So I'm not saying I'm quitting. I mean, saying I'm quitting would be like saying I'm not a very good person and I accept it, right? That's not okay.

However, my life is pretty messy right now. I have to deal with basic stuff like where to live and making money for this living, and it takes all of my time and energy. Finding time to blog is hard, not to mention time to do all my good deeds. So, this is me raising my hand and asking if we can please take five.

I'll be back.

Dare me

I need inspiration. Seriously. I have such a crazy load of things for my mind to process every day right now that I can't think of any good deeds. That's also why it's been quiet here last few days. So help me out? Tell me a good thing I can do tomorrow and I will do it. I will.

Did you forget?

Oh by the way, something I think you all might have forgotten. DO let the commercials on this blog catch your eye. Every time you click on them you help me get money for charity. That's sort of the point here.

K?

Obsessed with fairtrade

The thing about Fairtrade is it makes you feel good about yourself when you eat. And for a girl especially, that doesn't happen often. Exept for the Foer book my mom also got me some sugar and candy with Fairtrade labels from Sweden. So now I'm eating unhealthy, BUT with a clear conscience. Thank you mommy!

For you with less amazing moms, visit the Doing Good Accessories Store.

Let's talk this through.

Yesterday I got some weird looks as I bought a kid something to eat. She came begging for money but when I offered food and something to drink her face lit up. It sounds all nice and in order with my thoughts on begging, doesn't it? So why did people act like what I did was strange? I would really like some answers here, because I might be missing something! Perhaps there are factors I didn't consider.

Carnivore yet again

So to sum up my vegetarian experience.. Well, there were no revalations. I like vegetarian food! I like vegetables, pasta, beans etc. I knew this. I didn't try doing something with soy product or quorn, but I know from before that I don't enjoy it much. Anyway, this is the conclution: I could be a vegetarian. I won't though. Why?

I am one of these people who have a pretty strong intuition about things being wrong, but not strong enough to do something about it. It's embarrasing, being one of these people. Someone who's low on principles. My blog is a way of trying to change this! I want to turn my thoughts into action. Respect my own values. The problem with vegetarianism is that it's difficult in social situations. And by that I mean anything from parties to going out to dinner to eating at home with my boyfriend. It's alwasy more difficult to change things when it might affect people around you. So I think I'll probably go on being a part time vegetarian, but that's it.

My mom gave me the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer, called "Eating animals". I read only the first few pages so far. He starts by describing how he's been an on and off vegetarian all his life, and the feeling I was talking about: knowing it's wrong to do it but not finding the willpower to resist. I love Foer and the subject couldn't be more fitting, so I'll probably write a review within the next few days. Good enough? Let's see where I'll end up...

The Real Good deed

Let's not forget to report about Fairtrade coffee day! I had coffee and sticky yummy chocolate cake with my boyfriend. The Fairtrade labeled coffee I found tastes really good! Better than the Jacobs I usally drink. And the cacao was just like any other cacao.

Recepie for my sticky Swedish chocolate cake:

1. Set oven temperature to 175 degrees
2. Melt 100 g of butter. Add 2 eggs and 3 dl of sugar.
3. Mix 3 table spoons of (Fairtrade labeled!) cacao, a little bit of vanilla in the form you prefer and a tiny bit of salt with 1,5 dl of flower. Add to batter.
4. Pour the batter into a baking tin (greased with butter) and bake it for 30 minutes. You know it's ready when it looks ready on the outside. The inside should be sticky! Serve with whipped cream. Yum!

Witches, Shrek, Timon and Pumba are all welcome for dinner! That's todays good deed.

Everything isn't bright and shiny happy here in good deed land. It's not like I expected everything to go according to plan. Mostly because I am ME and lately very few things do go my way. But. One thing that really bums me out when it doesn't go right is cooking. Yesterday is a good example.

You know how as you get older you learn to like food you used to hate? Last night I made spinach soup thinking that it is a healthy veggie meal, and it was probably one of those things you hate when you are a kid but can like as an adult.

It wasn't one of those things.

Green and slimy food. Still no hit.

Taking recycling into my own hands

I found this huge old frame yesterday when I was taking out the garbage. It's dirty, some small pieces are missing and it has gotten some pretty bad repairs already. But I'm sure I can do something with it.. uuhm..

Still a vegetarian

Vegetarian pasta today. Made pennes with a walnut sauce I have been meaning to try. It was nice, but I would have enjoyed it more together with some prosciutto. It got boring before I got got full. Added some sun dried tomatoes to spice it up, and it helped. Anyway, here's how to make the sauce:

1. Roast 170 g of walnuts in a dry pan.
2. Use a mixer to make a paste out of the walnuts, a slice of bread, 1 & 1/2 decilitre of milk, 1/2 a crushed clove of garlic and 25 g of parmesan.
3. Add some olive oil, salt and pepper and mix again. Add some water from the pasta if the sauce is too thick. Top with chopped parsley. Done!

I've discovered a big plus in vegetarianism that nobody tells you about. It's very cheap! Super.

Shape up Greece!

I found two Fairtrade labeled products in my supermarket! It's one brand of coffee and a cocoa. I was so happy to find them that it took me a while before I started thinking about why I haven't seen them before. But it's actually pretty obvious why, and the reson is annoying as hell.

These products are in the supermarket as they are organic and have been placed on the shelf with "organic foods". You can not find the organic coffee next to the other coffee brands. Only in this specific part of the store. Imagine that my supermarket is as huge as... probably 500 sq.m It has 4 floors and I don't know how many hundreds of customers in a day, and they have 2 things with a Fairtrade label. These aren't imported for the label. That I was able to find them was a total coincidence.

This article, written by Katia Antoniadi, confirms my suspicions. For those of you who don't read Greek, I can tell you that the article also says 65 % of the Greeks don't know the meaning of the words "fair trade". And that from the few Greek companies that even replyed to a survey, made by Consumers International, the commercial directors didn't know what products were in this category.

It's clear to anyone that this is an area in which Greece has to improve. I will do my part. Friends are hereby invited to my Fairtrade Coffee on Wednesday. Shall we say around seven?

Free shipping at Amazon

A small tip. If you buy things for £25 or more from Amazon right now you get shipping for free to these countries:

Greece, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Andorra, Finland, Gibraltar, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Vatican city and Poland!

So if you were planning to buy some stuff from my Doing Good Accessories Store for example you should do it now!

Veggie Weekend

Veggie stuff

I admit, I made one mistake. Had lunch out and ordered a sallad that had chicken in it. Yummy as it was I didn't remember my vow to eat only vegetarian food this week, until it was already gone. But it won't happen again! Above is last nights dinner. Potato and onion soup, bruschetta and sallad.

I love this soup. It's the easiest thing to make, really tasty, healthy and cheap. Here's how I make it:

1. Chop yellow onion (1) and leek (4) and fry them in butter in a big pot.
2. Peel potatoes (1 kilo) and throw them in the pot together with water, a bouillon cube, salt and pepper.
3. Boil until the potatoes fall apart, mix with a hand blender and add some cream. Done!

Fairtrade Challange - so awesome!

In Sweden, where I'm from, Fairtrade is arranging something awesome.

On wedensday, the 27th of october, anyone who wants can join in having a coffee break with Fairtrade products. So far 306.842 people have reported that they're going to join in! To join you simply invite your friends to your house for a coffee / bring sweets to work and have a coffee break with your colleagues or whatever. You use one or more Fairtrade labeled products. You let fairtrade know you are having the coffee and afterwards you report your result. It's so simple and a great way to spread knowledge about the difference you can make when you choose the right products.

The person who invites the most people, the supermarket who invited the most other stores to join, the one who uses more fairtrade products and the one who gets the best pictures of the event, will win some really nice prices. You might for example get to visit one of the producing countries working with fairtrade!

I think this is a fantastic idea, and I'm jealous of all the swedes who get to be part of it! So don't you miss this!

By the way, maybe it isn't impossible for me to join. I just gotta find some fairtrade labeled stuff. All you greeks, are you interested in something like this?! If I invite you, will you come to my fairtrade coffee? (I know you're reading, so just post a "yes" or "no" in the comments field. Be anonymous if you like.)

Delicious greens (read cheese)

Right now I feel like the vegetarian thing might not be difficult At All. Or how does greek sallad, egyptian pita with feta cheese & tomato, and fries with roquefort sauce sound? Quick quiz for all who knows the island I'm currently on: Where am I going for dinner tonight?

My cousin Manfred the Mighty is going to get it right, I know that. She's also a vegetarian by the way. But the weirdest vegetarian in the world. She doesn't like vegetables.

Cholera outbreak in Haiti

You would think the people in Haiti already suffered enough. You would think.



We all know that over a million people were homeless in Haiti after the earthquake in January, which also killed 250-300 thousand. Many of us made donations. But what have we been doing since then? I admit I've done nothing.

A disaster like this has a massive immediate response around the world, but it scary to see how fast compassion fades. It has only been months sice the capital Port-au-Prince was destroyed. The global relief effort meant numerous nations and volontary groups sent help. But did we fix the country? Except from the obvious fact that nothing can bring back what Haiti has lost, did we give all we can?

There are huge camps around Port-au-Prince where homeless people live in tents, with terrible sanitary conditions. Many aid organizations have warned about how fast diseases might spread in these camps, where clean water is a rarity. And now here it is, the second disaster. A cholera epidemic is spreading in Haiti, killing 135 people so far. 1500 others are sick, and waiting in the streets outside the hospitals for help. And this is the situation now, before the epidemic has reached the camps around the capital.

Why is this happening? Because the resources aren't enough. Cholera is an easily treated disease, and all that's needed are hospital beds, rehydration salts and in some cases antibiotics.

Considering everybody knows about the situation in Haiti, I find this unacceptable. We have to help out more. We CAN help out alot more.

Oh, I'm serious!

• Tomorrow: The exception. Weekly lunch at my grandparents house means lemonato or giouvetsi (both meats). Out of my hands.
• Weekend: Will make a big batch of my potato soup. Sallads etc.
• Monday: Pasta with walnuts and parmesan
• Tuesday: Spinach soup with eggs.
• Wednesday: Chili sin Carne with bread and feta cheese.
• Thursday: Fishsoup with bread.

I'll get you recepies.

Fish soup. It's not too shabby.

Part vegetarian - Is it a thing?

I should become a vegetarian. I really hate what the meat industry is like. It is horrible. But this blog is meant to document all the small things I'm doing to change, and things that everyone can do. I am not going to go to Africa and do charity work, or give up on the small income that I do have in order to donate it all. And I don't think I will go all vegetarian anytime soon at least. Because it would mean a major and difficult change in my life! And I really really love meat.

But perhaps I can go half-veg? Is that a thing? Lets say I eat meat only a couple of times a week and allow fish and sea food during the rest. I've been surfing around reading recepies today, and I got inspired as always. Eating more vegetarian food will also mean eating more healthy! Wich I reeaally need to do. You greeks all know how easy it is to get the souvlakia menues out when you're hungry in Athens.

I'm deciding right now (without boyfriend knowing, but he needs a punishment for using a paper filter for the coffee this morning anyway): I will try eating green for a week starting tomorrow.

Bad me

Apparently women are advised not to give blood during a certain period of the month. Who knew? Well, at least the plan to go and give blood today made a great excuse not to go to the gym or anything else I probably should have done this afternoon.

Or in other words: I've been completely unproductive again today.

Where can I give blood?

My plan was to do one "good deed" every day. But finally it's more difficult than I thought to think of things to do. Especially as yesterday and the day before had such crazy weather (didn't know it could rain like this in Athens!) that we didn't even leave the house except when we had to go to work. And what "good deed" can you do sitting in your house? The only thing I did was trying to fix this blog, which might lead to something good later on.

And today the only thing I did was... um... standing on the bus, so the old people could sit. This shouldn't even count, but it sort of does in my case since I usally try to find a seat in order not to hurt my stupid old back.

Tomorrow I want to go to give blood. Can anybody tell me where to go?

Megi the Monster

The people in the Philippines were "lucky" this time. Even though typhoon Megi did destroy infrastructure and crops to a worth of around 30 million dollars, and thousands of houses were damaged, "only" 20 people died. Usually typhoons kill hundreds of people when they hit these areas. The difference this time is said to be the great preparations made by the government and the Red Cross, putting lots of resources in and evacuating thousands of people and giving them shelter in safe places.

Time to hold our breath and pray for the best as the typhoon heads for China right now. It looks like it is going to miss Hong Kong, so that's great news. If worst comes to worse and she then heads for Vietnam, we're all gonna have to step up. With the terrible floods killing lots of people there already, Vietnam is in no shape to make preparations of the kind that was made in the Philippines...

I feel small, don't you?

The Doing Good Accessories Store

I have created a store on Amazon where you can find a bunch of Fairtrade labeled products! There's a link to it in the column to the right. I call it the Doing Good Accessories Store. It's mainly coffees and teas but also some other stuff. It's worth checking out! I think some of these things might make excellent Christmas presents. Like this gift bag of holiday teas from Davidson's:

Click on the image for more info.

Let's make something good happen

And now it's working fine. We're up and running! You know what to, right?

I'm not very smart at times

Here I was angrily banging my fist in the table, spilling coffee and muttering over Ad Sense. After making me wait for three days they denied me without no apparent reason at all. The site they linked to talked about suspicious activity and click on ads. I haven't clicked on any ads. I didn't even get the ads working yet! Sent an ass kissing appeal.

Then I found the email they had already sent me saying that my blog was only available through log in, and this was the problem. And I realized I had put down the address for the blog I shut down two years ago. Hrrmm..oops.

Fair trade, Greece, hello?!

So I've been going a little crazy over the fact that it's so difficult to find products you can trust to not have harmed anybody in the making process. So many farmers and workers in the developing countries are struggling to get food on their tables, and the reason is unfair trading rules.

The only way I know to sort out the safe products is to look for the Fairtrade label, and that didn't seem to be available in Greece. But apparently it is! It's just not in the supermarkets. Fairtrade Hellas have got a shop in the centre of Athens, close to the Acropolis metro station, and they told me on the phone that they do have Fairtrade labeled products for sale. So for those of you who live in the center, check it out. I will when I get a chance. (Note though that Fairtrade Hellas doesn't seem to be connected to the International Fairtrade Organization in other than the name and that they sell the products.)

Still not happy about not finding something better than this. I want to see these labels in the supermarket. What am I missing? Can Greece really be so low on people caring about the world that there is no demand for these things?

Make an exception from your "silence is golden" ideas people and write a comment! Wouldn't you want the option to just pay a few cents more for coffee, for example, and know that by doing this you are preventing poverty and not harming the environment?

What if I open an e-shop. Would you buy your sugar, coffee and tea from me?

How to help the families in the Philippines

The Philippine Red Cross is the organization on site doing lots of work. They accept any donations! On this site you'll find all the information you need. You may send a check or make a bank deposit. Supposedly you're also able to donate through sms, but I haven't yet figured out how. I texted "RED(space)1" to 2899 just to see if it would work, but it didn't. Maybe I'm just stupid who can't figure it out (I don't want to call the hotline as I'm sure there are people calling with more urgent questions). The great thing is that you can donate just as much as you afford. You can also send food, medicines, sanitary products and shelter materials. Check the site for all info.

Another option for us who like the work of the Red Cross is to donate locally. In most places you can choose category for your donation, like "Disaster Relief", but there's a minimum amount for what you can give.

Just saw The Blind Side

Just saw a movie about every day heroes. Sandra Bullock was great in The Blind Side. I'm a little too late to write a review, so I won't. I'll just say that as this is a true story, it is such a feel good film! And inspirational, obviously. I like the lines of Leigh Anne and Sean in their bedroom the first night Michael stays in their house (Michael is a homeless boy that Leigh Anne invites into their home). L A: "You don't think he'll steal anything?" S: "I guess we'll see in the morning." Then they go to sleep. It's such a great example of choosing to trust and preferring to be kind over being careful. Like it!

Mother nature strikes again

A new monster typhoon has hit the Philippines. They call her Megi and she killed at least one person already this morning. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. BBC News claims: "it will re-emerge into the South China Sea and re-intensify as it heads for southern China."

It's always scary when uncontrollable forces like this hit. Especially for someone like me, who has grown up in a place where natural disasters is known almost solely from TV and American movies, it is easy to fall into the trap of letting yourself be fascinated by the idea. Type example was the horrible tsunami in 2004. As many Swedes were affected when the holiday resorts in Thailand were destroyed, people got almost obsessed with what was happening. Those who didn't know anyone that had been affected still lost focus on everything else, as if their every day life didn't matter. The bright side was that many many people donated money to help.

I will keep an eye out for ways to help the people who's homes will be hit by the typhoon. Even for us with limited resources there should be a way. Those of you who believe should pray no one else gets hurt.

Many a mickle really does make a muckle

Going to bed pretty happy about having had almost a hundred page views on the opening day of the blog! Now, I don't know how long it's gonna take for the blog to make some profit, if the stats go up or even stay the same. Haven't even gotten my Ad Sense account approved yet. But please keep coming back. As long as you reed the blog, and make a click at an ad every time once they come up, you're helping me get some money for charity. And you decide where half of the money goes by answering the poll. Many a mickle!

Follow up. See, I'm not fooling around.

 Recycling! As simple as this.

 And the coffee tastes just the same without the paper filter.

Wouldn't want to be homeless in this city

I live in Piraeus, a municipality of Greece and part of the capital. Together with the municipality of Athens 45% of the homeless people in Greece live here. I see them every time I leave my house. That is to say, if I choose to see them.

When I first came here from Sweden I was chocked to see all the homeless people, and the amounts of people begging in the street. In the city centre of Athens you can not walk down even one street without passing them. Women with babies, children, men with amputated legs, all crying out to you for just a few cents. Or just looking at you, as if they've already given up and are simply people watching, sitting on the ground with an old can next to them. I wanted to cry. I tried to make sure I had a lot of coins on me so I wouldn't have to pass any of them and not have something to give.

Since then I have changed. I almost never give anything. Why? Right now as I am thinking about this, I cannot think of a good reason. I know that most people around me seem to have good reasons not to. They talk about organized begging; that parents or other grown ups send kids out to beg for money, and then keep it all to themselves and leave the kids in poverty. And about how people from certain cultures don't want to get other jobs or houses. And then there are those who are sure that these people get so much money from what they do, that they are not to be considered poor but actually wealthy!

None of these arguments deal with my initial thought though. Which was that even if some of the money you give goes somewhere bad, it's still worth the risk as some of it might help someone survive the day. And besides, I think pretending not to see people in need is something that, in the long run, is going to make you a bad person. Getting used to not helping is something I am deeply ashamed of.

Something I am going to do from now on is to offer something to eat when people ask for money. That will help those in immediate need but won't support the asses who use children to get rich.

Oh, when I said that 45% of the homeless people in Greece live here and in the centre of Athens, I was only talking about Greek citizens. So you can save your comments on immigration to a later post (It will come up. The thousands of people living in temporary camps around the country will not be forgotten.).

Recycling time!

It's actually almost funny when you think about it. How easy it is to find excuses not to do things you should be doing. I used to be excellent at finding excuses not to study. I know all students say this but I would have been in the world championship for excuses if it existed. I would do things I dreaded More than studying instead of studying. And that's just crazy. Lately I've come to terms with the fact that I don't like studying and said hell with the excuses, I'm lazy and I accept it.

My excuse for not recycling my trash goes like this: I don't have enough space. And sure, I do live in a 20 sq. m. studio, but! As the writer behind a "doing my part to change the world" blog, the excuse certainly ain't good enough. If I have space for a big chair I never use and all of my shoes, i have space to recycle. So that's my mission of the day! I'm gonna put some bags on my balcony for all my recyclables. And try to remember to use them.

Lost in translation

Oh my. Finding out about if "COOL" (Country Of Origin Labeling) exists here in Greece, and the detailes around it, isn't at all easy. My greek is very limited, and so is the english with the greeks. Help, please, someone!

Good deed of the day

This giant bag is full of clothes, shoes and bags I just cleared out of my closet. Tomorrow I'll hand it over to a charity organization. It only took me 20 minutes, and now I have space to hang some winter stuff in there. Yay for doing good!

Could use some help

I need food. Heading down to the supermarket I remember what I wrote last night about never checking the country of origin on anything I buy. Thinking I'm gonna do it this time. But hold on... how am I gonna make an evaluation of the products based on this information?

I have alot of researching ahead of me. I need to update myself on human rights and living standards in other parts of the world, on environmental issues and politic everything. And I am hungry.

So, just for now, can anybody give me any good rule of thumb? Are there any clear indicators that the making of a product was made possible through the slaughter of a rainforest, or that women and children have been exploited? Any tips are welcome.

Starting my new life

I'm gonna give this a try. The idea to write this blog came to me months ago. I don't remember when. Maybe as a cause of being broke, and trying to figure out a way to make some extra cash. Maybe I had passed an unusual amount of homeless people on the street that day, or maybe, come to think of it, it was at the movies after seeing Kick Ass. Whatever the reason, the idea has stuck with me. To change my life to the better, get my karma on so to speak, and document it in a blog. I have so many areas of improvement.

Lets see. What are those things I always say I should do but never do? Here's a list:

• I don't recycle
• I have never given blood
• I don't give money to homeless people
• I don't offer homeless people food
• I don't give money to charity
• I don't control the origin of anything I buy, neither would I know how to
• I didn't stop using paper coffee filters inside the reusable one
• I don't do quick showers
  

Ok, that's all I can think of right now. But I'm sure writing this blog is gonna give me a whole bunch of insights. Starting off easy I'm going to brake my crazy habit and use Only the reusable coffee filter for my coffee in a minute. Then I'm off to surfing the web for inspiration.

Oh, and the best part! If I do good, make an actual change in my life AND you guys applaud me and start copycating me, there is a bonus. If the blog makes money I'll give 50% to charity. You choose the cause! Just keep reading the blog and vote for your charity in the poll in the right column. Always remember: Many a mickle makes a muckle!