![Vintage (1972-1988) Corning Spice-o-Life Casserole: 26,500 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe*] & 236 ppm Cd [75 is unsafe.]](https://i1.wp.com/tamararubin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Spice-O-Life-Corningware-Casserole-Lead-Safe-Mama-2.jpg?fit=400%2C300&ssl=1 "Vintage (1972-1988) Corning Spice-o-Life Casserole: 26,500 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe*] & 236 ppm Cd [75 is unsafe.]")
Originally Posted: December 2019
Updated: Friday, January 20, 2020Click any one of the image blocks below for more information on that subject.This “Start Here” post is a work in progress, so please let me know if you don’t find what you are looking for. Here are the topics posted so far (each ...
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After some online schooling from the road, A.J. is moved in! Here’s a list of things I bought to set my son up in his college apartment in Boston!
If you have been following our “starting college as a freshman during a pandemic” saga, you know that just before we left Oregon to drive to Boston to drop my 18 year old off at college, we got an e-mail from his college (Berklee College of Music), saying the dorms were being cancelled (closed for ...
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Guidelines for friends helping moderate the Lead Safe Mama Facebook page…
Thanks for helping!
Every now and then helpers support the work of Lead Safe Mama on social media (and elsewhere, too). I’ve written this post as a guide for people who have offered to come on board as Lead Safe Mama Helpers...Below are some details about how this works — and specific ...
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Lead Safe Mama’s Non-Toxic Stocking Stuffer Guide, 2020 Edition
[Originally posted in 2019 — updated for 2020]
Hello! Happy Holidays!
Let me start by saying a few things...
#1) I don’t happen to celebrate Christmas (we’re Jewish - although December 25th is my late mother’s birthday(!), so we do take the day to remember her and spend it with family!)
#2) I ...
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The school district thinks they are offering FAPE to my kids & says that I am refusing it. Fuck them.
The school district just sent me a formal letter saying I was refusing FAPE (Free and appropriate public education) for my 12 year old disabled son Charlie. Below is my response tonight so far (I just got the letter in an email after I got the kids in to bed). But first here’s the communication I ...
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This is an AQI map right now of the air around my home today, Wednesday, September 16, 2020. I guess I am staying on the road as long as possible!
This is an AQI map of the air around my home right now (Wednesday, September 16, 2020). I cannot convey how thankful I am to be with my boys on the other side of the country right now! Charlie would have been in the hospital on day one of this mess (we normally don’t let him go outside if the AQI is ...
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UPDATED: Lead Safe Mama Cross-Country SEPTEMBER / FALL Tour Route, Draft 2.0; “The Journey Home!”
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 UPDATE
Draft 2.0
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To learn more about the Lead Safe Mama "September 2020 Fall Tour" (and how to get on my schedule if I am already going to be near you!), please read this post (link!) Thank you! The ...
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Organifi glass water bottle logo is painted with LEAD PAINT! 15,600 ppm Lead (90 ppm & up is unsafe.)
Not surprisingly, this bottle is advertised as a healthier choice!
Below are images and text from their website on September 6, 2020 - Sunday
From the Organifi website: "Sleek, Classy and Stylish. A new way to show your dedication to health and wellness to the entire world."
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Do you (or your grandma) have kitchen counters like this? If so they may test positive for unsafe levels of Lead.
Vintage (1970s / 1980s) faux wood vinyl countertops often have unsafe levels of Lead.
When I walk in to a home and see counters like these now - based on experience - I am almost always certain that they will test positive for Lead. This particular counter was likely from the year the home was ...
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Lead Safe Mama Cross-Country Socially Distanced SEPTEMBER / FALL Tour Route, Draft 1.0; “The Journey Home!”
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To learn more about the Lead Safe Mama "September 2020 Fall Tour" (and how to get on my schedule if I am already going to be near you!), please read this post (link!) Thank you! The "September Tour" includes stopping in ...
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This is the truck I am planning to buy to be the “Lead Safe Mama Mobile!” Now to find some sponsors!
You can help the "Lead Safe Mama Mobile" happen!
I chose this truck after an exhaustive search of all the options online - and (if I can find a corporate sponsor - or three or four - to cover the cost of the truck!) I am also going to do a "wrap" of the truck so it is recognizable as the "Lead Safe ...
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Hello! I need help finding Lead-free housing for my son A.J. who is starting college in Boston next week! TIA.
Can you spot the college kid?
Here's a closer shot!Images above are of A.J. doing his student orientation virtually!Personal post! I need some help. Thanks!We’re looking for a good deal on a small apartment in a nice area within an hour drive of Berklee College of Music - for my son ...
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CoViD-19 permitting, I would like to stay on the road – driving around the U.S. helping families. A request…
My campsite (with the cows) at my friends' ranch in Montana a couple of weeks ago...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
You might say that I am an unusual person... I like to think outside the box to solve problems; I like to be creative in my solutions, especially in my efforts to make a difference in the ...
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So many milestones (in spite of the pandemic!) Lead Safe Mama just passed 2,000,000 unique views for the year… & more
August 24, 2020 - Monday
Hi friends! There have really been too many amazing things to share with you this month, and I just have not had the time to write (because I have been on the road visiting with families of Lead-poisoned kids since August 3rd)! Here are a few highlights (which you can also ...
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Lead Safe Mama Summer 2020 Socially Distanced Cross-Country Tour; August 24, 2020 update and highlights.
If you are interested in getting on my schedule in the next 6 weeks, click here!
August 24, 2020 - Monday
Lead Safe Mama 2020 Summer Tour Update
Hello friends! I wanted to give you an update on our adventures. I had hoped to record little videos every day — but traveling with disabled kids ...
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