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I didn't, but Robert became seriously sad for a while.
By the time the wedding was over, I was happy and relieved to be done with planning, organizing, and coordinating, and just be married. But hubby was a totally different story. He missed the excitement and anticipation. He went off his pre-wedding diet and dove headfirst into a bowls of ice cream and pasta. He developed a nasty reality TV habit, and had to be coaxed into putting on fresh clothing each morning (I don't care if you slept in your gym clothes, that makes them pyjamas, and you can't wear them all day.) It was not pretty.
What finally shook Robert out of his funk was when Recycled Media went into development, and we got excited about building something new. So that's my suggestion to you: Find a new project and tackle it will all the guts and gusto you put into wedding planning. Start a blog. Become a Big Brother/Big Sister. Train for a marathon. Heck, you can even start planning your 1st anniversary bash.
The period when you're engaged and wedding planning is a flurry of excitement, attention, and adrenaline, and it's natural to feel a little let down when that all goes away. But it's important for you -- and your marriage -- that you stay engaged (pardon the pun)in life and find other activities and roles that make you feel jazzed. Hope that helps! -
My biggest challenge is cultivating patience. I see big, HUGE things for Recycled Media, and I would like for them to all happen by tomorrow please.
My other biggest challenge is giving up coffee. Remember that boyfriend who was so bad for you but you just couldn't help it and kept going back? That's like me and coffee. The caffeine makes my energy levels unstable and I feel all dehydrated and icky at the end of the day, and yet I just can't lay off the java.
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Hi Dad! You found the formspring box on the blog! Welcome to my little corner of cyberspace :)
Global Green USA is the American arm of the Green Cross International, which was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. They do a lot of really important environmental work, including an incredible project in New Orleans that's rebuilding neighborhoods with sustainable housing. They also get clean drinking water to people who don't have access to it, and help fight climate change.
The way they started is really interesting. You can go to http://www.globalgreen.org to read about it, or I'll tell you the whole story over dinner on my next visit home.
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Oooh, I'm so glad you asked.
What makes Coke different from Pepsi?
What makes Google different from Bing?
What makes Vera Wang different from Monique Lhuillier?
There are many markets in which several similar businesses coexist. Some people see hardly any difference between them, while others have strong preferences. Customers choose a product or service based on what they like, for a variety of reasons.
Because I believe in consumer resale as a sustainable action, I support resale in general, and I'm glad that there are lots of options for brides who want to sell their dresses and other wedding items. Ten years ago, nobody re-sold their wedding stuff. Now it's a common practice, mainly because sites like ours, along with PreownedWeddingDresses.com, OnceWed, BravoBride and others, have made bridal resale popular and accessible. So I see those businesses as our friends. We're all helping to grow the market and get the message out, which allows all of our businesses to thrive.
So what makes us different? Well, several things:
1. I tried to improve upon existing models and make our buying and selling process even more user-friendly than what was already out there. You should be able to visit RB.com, sign up and list an item to sell, all very easily and in under 5 minutes.
2. Our company's mission includes educating consumers about the environmental, social, and financial benefits of resale, and we donate 15% of all our ad revenue to Global Green USA.
3. We're not just doing bridal resale! Recycled Bride's sister site, RecycledTyke.com, is about to launch, and we'll be introducing our resale platform to the baby and kids' market. And we won't stop there. We're creating a resale revolution, saving women lots of money and consumer waste along the way.
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Thousands of people work for Recycled Media They're the loyal members and new visitors who use our sites every day, give us feedback, and help grow our company in ways that benefit our users, the business, and the environment.
Okayfine here's the real answer:
Recycled Media's full-time staff is made up of myself, my partner, and bottomless cups of coffee. In addition, we have several hardworking interns who are each with us part-time, and we work with a team of consultants, design and development partners, and esteemed Advisory Board members. All of these incredible people have been instrumental in cooking up the big suprises we're preparing to unveil over the next few months.
It takes a village to raise a startup. And we're fortunate that our village is made up of some of the most brilliant, accomplished, and inspiring people I know. -
Yes, this is my full time-and-then-some gig.
I run Recycled Bride and the rest of our company, Recycled Media, Inc. A lot goes on behind the scenes that keeps me quite busy. We're about to launch our second site, RecycledTyke.com, and are creating a series of boutique resale websites for women that are free, easy to navigate, provide great content, and encourage buyer-seller communication in the transaction process. We believe that this is a more female-friendly alternative to current online resale options, and that more women will engage in resale and reduce their consumer waste if given an easy, friendly, community-oriented platform to do so.
But that didn't answer your question.
We have very little funding, and are currently "doing the startup hustle" to make all of this happen. I had a successful career as an artist before this, and I diligently saved my pennies. Those pennies have now been recycled into pixels, and were used to launch the business. Recycled Robert pitches in too, and we have a great network of advisors, partners and friends who help us to achieve our goals.
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That is a GOOD question, and I'm so glad you brought it up because it's relevant to a larger issue that surfaces all the time when running a
green business: To what sustainability standards should we hold our advertisers, vendors and partners?
First, about Whiteflash: They are a company with good green and sustainable values. Are they perfect? Probably not. But I'm a big fan of the idea of "progress not perfection". Whiteflash has launched several great charitable initiatives, and guarantees all of their diamonds to be conflict-free.
This is a complicated issue. There are many certification processes, including the international Kimberley Process. People often complain about the Kimberley Process' known oversights, (which have been much improved recently) and that certain other third-party certifiers should have more rigorous standards. Whiteflash diamonds are conflict-free by Kimberley Process and USA Patriot Act standards.
The people who I've gotten to know at Whiteflash care about these issues and are always making improvements to their business practices and their supply chain to make sure that the company is as ethical and green as possible. AND Whiteflash created an amazing line of jewelry called Dreams of Africa, with 100% of proceeds from their sales going directly to helping African children affected by the illicit trade of rough diamonds in countries like Uganda and Liberia.
In a broader sense, Recycled Bride does business with companies that practice various levels of sustainability. In an ideal world, all of our partners and advertisers would be 100% green (though even that is slippery to define). But I
believe that when we limit ourselves to collaborating only with the sustainable superheroes, we miss the opportunity to educate more mainstram companies and help them move toward greener practices. And while our main goal is to promote consumer product recycling and reuse, we are also very customer-service oriented and like to connect with businesses that can bring our members the very best deals on the products they love. So we work with businesses and advertisers that:
1. Are eco-friendly and sustainable
2. Offer special deals on heavily discounted wedding items to our members
3. Run small/family businesses
4. Produce handmade or one-of-a-kind items
We believe that there are many ways for a business to incorporate sustainable values, and that a shift toward better social, environmental, and financial practices often happens in a series of small steps over time. For small companies who are trying to stay afloat, it's important to show them the demand for eco-friendly products, which we do by connecting them with eco-counscious buyers.
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I am a vampire.
Really though, I never EVER auto-tweet. I love the conversational aspect of Twitter and wouldn't miss out on seeing the reactions to my tweets, or on being a part of what's happening at the very moment I'm writing one. When you see all-hours tweets from me, it's because I have Startup Insomnia Syndrome. I'm so excited about all of the cool stuff we're developing for Recycled Media that I ofetn can't sleep! Also, I drink too much coffee, which is no-bueno for the sleep schedule. So I tweet. Oftentimes with people in England or Australia, because they're the ones who are awake when I am! -
I was a painter, and I travelled around the world making art and exhibiting it. It was so wonderful! I can't think of any way I would rather have spent my twenties.
I went to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan as an undergrad, and I got a Master's degree in Fine Art from the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.
Sometimes looking at my old artwork makes me cringe, because I feel like I would do it way better and differently now. But in the spirit of sharing: http://www.tracyroseart.com
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Oh, hello again my anonymous friend! I'm so glad you found me here on formspring. For those who don't know, this anonymous person and I have had a months-long, one-sided relationship (One-sided due to their anonymity, of course!)
Anyway, my anonymous friend, I've been meaning to thank you for the multiple blog comments and e-mails you've been sending about the size of my nose. Oh, and when you created listings on RecycledBride.com for poop, and for happy meals, that was moderately clever as well. You've been an amusing distraction for us here in the office.
My big nose is doing great, thanks for asking. Though I would like to point out that technically, my nose is not big. My head is just very, very small. It's all about proportion.
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Tracy DiNunzio’s Bio
I like showing people how to use what already exists in the world, save money, minimize waste, and experience the joy of sustainable living.
