Saturday, November 29, 2008

Lifestyle Changes For A Fuller Life

By Stewart M. Russell

There are some websites which deal with lifestyles and have articles which suggest ways and means to do it. www.lifestylespy.com is a new website which deals with such topics.

Gardening can be a hobby or it can be a challenging task. You can have flowers, fresh fruits and vegetables, from your own garden. Besides, it gives a lot of pleasure, exercise and happiness. You have to basically have good compost and good seeds to get good results.

There are ways and means of developing a good garden even on concrete. The necessity is that there should be adequate sunlight for this.

You can collect old cardboard boxes, planks of wood, soil, leaves, old carpets, sand, soil, old newspapers and the like to begin with. These can be collected from nurseries or from the neighborhood. Once all the material is collected, it takes just about a day or two to make a garden.

Own organic fertilizer can be made from kitchen waste. Peels of fruits and vegetables, vegetable stock and other material can be used to make your own compost. If all the material is ready, then it takes only one day to create your own garden on concrete.

One should first put up a fence with planks and cardboard. Then smoothen the land first by placing the old carpet, cardboard boxes etc. The plot should not be too big. It can be just a meter in width and a bit longer. Old soaked newspapers can then be placed over the ready ground. The newspapers should overlap so that the sunlight need not create unnecessary weeds under the plants. Compost can be bought or made from kitchen waste like vegetable and fruit peels.

The economy is going downhill and it is necessary to economize but you need not do so at the cost of good health. Changing the lifestyle ought to do the trick.

Most of us tend to go to the gym for a workout to stay fit. Membership fees can be high therefore you can save some money if you were to do some workout on your own. Instead of using the elevator you can climb the steps. Everyday jobs like laundry, cooking, cleaning, taking the dog for a walk can be done vigorously so that more energy is used and more sweat is produced without going to the gym and paying money to do exercise. Also walking to the nearby store instead of using the car saves on petrol. - 16955

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