Home is Where the Heart Is

Benefits

Environmental Benefit: ★★★☆☆
By staying home more, you reduce usage of your vehical - thus consuming less fuel and producing fewer emissions. You also save the resources & energy from whatever activity or shopping you would have been doing if you went out.

Money Saved: ★★★★☆
Staying home saves lots of $$$$$! Almost anytime you leave home, you spend money, right?

Lifestyle Benefit: ★★★☆☆
While it's fun to go out once in awhile and do something different, it's also great to cultivate hobbies and family activities you can do at home. Helps develop family togetherness and an appreciation for home.

What We’re Doing
Well, I'd like to go out more than we do - at least once a week. But it is fun to just sit down and play a board game together, read a book, watch a film, build a pinewood derby car, garden, bake some cookies, knit, bicycle, whatever. If you don't have a number of interests and hobbies you can do inexpensively at home, then your search for fun will definitely make budgeting difficult and be hard on the environment. And while your at home, remember that board games use less electricity than the computer type!

A Little Humor
"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."
— Tom McMillan