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| Vintage TV set salt and pepper shakers, from DomestiKate. |
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Electric Company
For the past few weeks, just before bed, I've been unplugging almost every single electronic component in my house. It's an experiment really. And the goal is to see if I can save any money on my $25 electric bill (that comes every 2 months). Most likely, I'll only save a few bucks. But hey, if just 10% of the population did this, we'd be using a lot less power! We'd also be saving enough money (per year) to go out and buy something unique, handmade and/or vintage (i.e.--shop on Etsy).
Here's my estimate of how much money could be saved and put towards the handmade sector of the economy:
-We'd save approx. $2.50/month on each electric bill. That's $30 per year, per person.
-If 10% of the U.S. population did this, that's about 30 million people (conservatively).
-30 million people x $30/person/year = $900 million!!
That's right--$900 million could be spent towards handmade goods if just 10% of us unplugged our televisions and computers each night. Think about that the next time you're wondering what you can do to jump start this economy...
Here's my estimate of how much money could be saved and put towards the handmade sector of the economy:
-We'd save approx. $2.50/month on each electric bill. That's $30 per year, per person.
-If 10% of the U.S. population did this, that's about 30 million people (conservatively).
-30 million people x $30/person/year = $900 million!!
That's right--$900 million could be spent towards handmade goods if just 10% of us unplugged our televisions and computers each night. Think about that the next time you're wondering what you can do to jump start this economy...
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| Repurposed light bulb vase, $11 - from Star Redesigns. |
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| Vintage Primary clock, $21 - from The Vintage Apartment. |
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| "TV Bikes" Print, $20 - from Press Print. |
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| "As Seen On TV" embroidery, $185 - from It's A Stitch. |
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monsters, Inc.
I was a huge fan of the "X-Files". But it wasn't the government cover-ups or myriad of alien takeovers that tickled my fancy...
...It was the monsters.
The forest creature, with glowing red eyes, that hunted its victims during the daylight hours...Leonard Betts, the cancer victim who could regenerate his appendages...Rob Roberts, the man with an unhealthy addiction to human brains...Chester Banton, a physicist, whose shadow is pure dark matter...or Flukman, the sewer-dwelling survivor of a nuclear waste dump gone horrendously wrong.
Those episodes gave me goosebumps. They were episodes that made you run, jump in your bed, and hide under the covers. But then, slowly, you began to realize it was just a TV show--and those fictitious "monsters" simply don't exist...
...Or maybe they just live under your bed.
...It was the monsters.
The forest creature, with glowing red eyes, that hunted its victims during the daylight hours...Leonard Betts, the cancer victim who could regenerate his appendages...Rob Roberts, the man with an unhealthy addiction to human brains...Chester Banton, a physicist, whose shadow is pure dark matter...or Flukman, the sewer-dwelling survivor of a nuclear waste dump gone horrendously wrong.
Those episodes gave me goosebumps. They were episodes that made you run, jump in your bed, and hide under the covers. But then, slowly, you began to realize it was just a TV show--and those fictitious "monsters" simply don't exist...
...Or maybe they just live under your bed.
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| Braaains Mobile, $33 - from Salty and Sweet. |
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| Pizza Monster Print, $11 - from Heidi Burton. |
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| Anatomical Mook Creature, $35 - from My Grey Sky. |
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| 58 Famous Monsters T-Shirt, $25 - from The Chop Shop. |
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