Earth Day!!!!

April 22nd is the earth day's 40th anniversary even though we are aware of it only few years back. Incorporating little changes in our everyday activities may help create a bigger impact on this earth. According to me, the most important and easiest changes that we can make are

1. Using reusable bags in the place of plastic bags
2. Using microfiber kitchen towels instead of paper towels

I'm going to help you find some great ideas to make a reusable bag on your own or buy an inexpensive bag.
Even collecting bag one at a time would get you the feeling of fulfillment that you are somehow contributing to this earth.

1. Buy one of this bag from getmyeco.com
2. Make your own reusable bag looking at Martha Stewart's tutorial here
3. Make your bag from an unused T-shirt using the tutorial here
4. Check out your local Safeway store to get a free reusable bag when you buy $40 in groceries
5. Check your local Ross stores where you can buy a really good size reusable bag for anywhere from $2 to $3.

Third one in the above list is the really cool idea to have a reusable bag.

I hope you will make your first step towards going green-if you haven't yet-using the information in this post.

Thanks for reading!!!

Welcome to Shami's thoughts!!! My first post

Ever since we started using internet, it has been a source of all information. Shami's thoughts is gonna be a myriad combination of everyday knowledge, healthy lifestyle, heart-warming recipes, decor ideas, money saving tips, green world and so on. And how do I know these stuffs? I have been an avid reader of healthy blogs and magazines for last two years. I'm eager to learn more and I'm excited to share my insights on it.

As we all know, everyday we are surrounded by mundane activities and most of the time, we have to go in the flow of our workforce.  Like almost every person I know, I live life in a terrific hurry. As I have read in the housekeeping magazine, there are two types of time in greek words, chronos and kairos. Chronos is the everyday life we are living counting the hours and minutes while kairos is the moments that stand out in our mind like memorable events. When we think back, how many times a day - or even a week - that we experience kairos, is even nothing or a mere negligible amount. Just think, what is this life is for? To spoil our mind thinking of work we haven't finished in our office or to look at your child or spouse or parent a minute to fulfill your mind thinking of how wonderful your life is. To be clear, work is part of life and life is not the part of work. Lets all take a new resolution to lead a life with lots of kairos.

Thanks for reading my first post!! I hope you will enjoy reading interesting and useful information here in Shami's thoughts.