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Yaye For 1K subscribers on YouTube!! 🤩🎉 To celebrate, enjoy this throwback picture of me jumping for joy while wearing an “Old World New” shirt from my early blogging days 😄🙌🏾 Random fact: I had this shirt made for photos in 2015 and for any following events and photos where I wanted to represent OWN. It lasted several years, but last year (2023) I cut the shirt up and started using it as cleaning and paint rag ♻️ that was 11 years after starting my blog, and 8 years after the shirt was made. It had a good run lol. And it is still useful today, just repurposed. Also, Old World New turns 12 on February 12, 2024. Another reason to jump for joy!! Thanks for being here with me 🥰🫶🏾 Subscribe on YouTube if you haven’t already: https://youtube.com/@oldworldnew_

What are your ins & outs for 2024? #insandouts On being my whole self: (Long story short because IG never posted this the first time I tried) My whole self is an advocate for the environment and a homeschooling mom. While I have two separate brands to reflect that, I am but one human. Prepare to see pieces of all of my world, because there is overlap. And also because most hours of my days are dedicated to being a mom and educating my eldest child - I don’t have that free time to blog the night away anymore 😂 The idea of sharing my full self used to scare me because I thought it would make people stop following my account. I honestly don’t have the energy to care about that anymore. If you ever feel like you need to unfollow, do what’s best for you, boo. If you’re here in community with me, I appreciate it and enjoy your company. Shout out to @evolvedteacher who told me to do this a long time ago. And shout out to @heyashleyrenne & @dominiquedrakeford because it’s a joy to see them share their mom life so effortlessly in the midst of being environmental warriors. I’m grateful for my growth to no longer want to try to compartmentalize myself so heavily. Cheers to me 🥂 All of me 🫶🏾 @oldworldnew x @tinygreenearthling + more!

✨ Living sustainably can be a sacrifice, BUT it’s an investment in our future. Let’s choose quality over quantity and prioritize what truly matters. ✨ What’s one sacrifice you’ve made in order to live more sustainably that you don’t regret at all? #QualityOverQuantity #SustainableInvestment #SustainableLivingTips

Here’s what I know 👇🏾 👤 There’s no way one sustainable change that one person makes will “save the world,” but a lot of people making changes can have a positive impact. 👥 A lot of people having a positive impact won’t change the systems we’re in, but it will influence the systems to test out marketing sustainable products. Capitalism runs the systems and they’ll chase whatever the people are doing. So if a lot of folks want sustainable solutions to their everyday needs, established monopolizing brands will try to do that (some will lie, some will fail, some will succeed on a small level, few will actually be dedicated to sustainable changes). 🌐 If the systems realize that sustainable items sell (or get major backlash when their fake sustainable claims won’t fool the people), a bigger impact can be made. Elected officials who prioritize the environment can get voted in to be the law makers. Calling present day colonialism out will be more normal - and using our voices to educate about it and our votes to go against it will help. Making purchases with dedicated sustainable brands and buying less overall, will continue to send a clear message. We are slowly seeing a shift towards more sustainable products on the market because of actions like these. Hopefully that leads to more systemic sustainable solutions beyond capitalist endeavors. So if you see this reel and want to be a part of a sustainable community that cares about ALL PEOPLE + the PLANET, taking everything a small step at a time for positive impactful change, welcome to this community. I’m glad you’re here 💚🥰🫶🏾

All this to say you gotta find balance to be sustainable in this unsustainable world. If we didn’t have a sidewalk, it wouldn’t be slippery with acorns. But we do. And we rent so we won’t be destroying the sidewalk/paved path. Instead, we did a Google search to figure out how this lizard lives in the winter and saw that they dig & burrow. So we took them off of the tree (where we saw one over the summer so we thought they’d like it) and put them in a bush and put some leaves back so that they can stay warm and hidden. I think it’s time for influencers (and all folks, especially newly radicalized folks, of whom I once was) to be real about the difficulty of incorporating sustainable tactics sometimes. All this happened during nap time and a door that slammed from the wind woke the baby so saving the lizard completely took away some of the few minutes today that I get to feel like a human without a baby attached to me 🥴 This stuff - living sustainably in an unsustainable human world - requires effort and sacrifice. So let’s give each other grace and continue to give capitalists/billionaires and the government hell because they are the ones who could really make a significant change. 💚

@Made.trade sent me these gifts that are responsibly sourced and made with all natural materials 💚 (gifted) I love that you can find so many ethical and fairly made beautiful items all in one spot with them. The Cadera fanny pack is my favorite because fanny packs make my life a tad bit easier. They’re utilitarian and cute. My friends really loved the coasters during our sip and paint night at the house. And the the classic Moscow mule mug is made with recycled copper ♻️ When you’re looking for gifts that are easier on the earth, what do you look for first? 1 materials 2 how it’s made 3 who made it 4 something else Let me know in the comments! Ethically made, fair trade, sustainable, green, recycled materials, sustainable living, ethical,

THRIFTED ATTIRE for our family Christmas photos 📸🎄 We worked with what we had for some photos - and a large portion of that is thrifted. And we thrifted a few new things, as well. I even dyed a thrifted dress for our all green theme! I love our thrift finds 😄 November and December are when Americans create the most amount of waste each year. What are you thrifting, reusing, and rethinking to create less waste during the holiday seasons?