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Readers' Reuse Tips

Clementine Crate Become Nifty Bathroom Storage Container

January 14, 2010

My kids love clementines (okay devour clementines.) So what is the harm with this? Their packaging. They come in a wood crate with a plastic net. I HATE the packaging. I can’t recycle the crate but have been giving them away to be reused. People sure love them.
My cousin uses them to store her arts [...]

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Give your Unused Swing Set a New Purpose

October 27, 2009

For some dumb reason I own two swing sets. Long story, but to sum up the reason… an impulse buy. Here is the short condensed version. I bought two adorable recycled horse tire swings about fifteen years. Way before I was a certified treehugger. So, don’t go thinking I bought them simply because [...]

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Reuse Your Old Panty Hose Rather than Chucking in the Trash

July 6, 2009

I swear I only wear a pair of panty hose one time since I evidently run my hose. Instead of throwing them out, I decided to take a new approach. Putting on the old green thinking cap, I ponder how can I reuse them? Everything has to have many lives just like cats?
Let’s look at [...]

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Be Creative, Use Your Power Tools For Cooking

November 16, 2008

Use your power tools to create one delicious, creative dinner. Huh? No, I am not sipping a little of the sauce. Ask Duke DesRochers, the creative chef/handy man behind his Renaissance Man video (see above) as his entry to become the Next Food Network Star. Think Emeril Lagasse of Green Planet/Bob Villa with a little of [...]

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Are You Chained to Your Bathroom?

August 19, 2008

I was toying with this post on how to write it and came up with 2 different senario both with a green intent. I am curious which version you like.
Version #1: Are you Chained to your Bathroom?
When you read the title of this artcle, you are muttering “ugh” in response to pictures of [...]

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Hair Today, Deer Gone Tomorrow

June 18, 2008

My son came home from a birthday party with a little green mesh bag of candy. What was I going to do with this mesh bag? It is too tiny to hold much and anything that is tiny would slip right out the holes. However, as of late, I have been trying to think of [...]

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Let Me Count the Way to Reuse Your Mylar Balloons

May 5, 2008

Photo by permission of peretzpup
With Mother’s Day fastly approaching, what would be nicer than a flower arrangement with a shiny Mylar Balloon inscribed with the saying, “Number 1 MOM?” How about your Memorial Day or 4th of July party? Mylar balloons just add to the festival attitude. Just name the celebration, and there are Mylar [...]

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Eating at Wendy’s Could Have Green Benefits

April 12, 2008

How many of us catch lunch or dinner when we can? Are you driving up to the drive-in window more than you like to due to a hectic job, children with multiple activities or caring for family members? Does the person at the other end of the microphone recognize your voice?
I find myself [...]

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18 Ideas To Reuse Expired Credit Cards

March 13, 2008

Photo by Mike Martin Wong
How many of you have expired credit cards that either sit in your drawers, or you have cut up and thrown in the trash? These plastic wonders that allows us to say “charge it” can sit in our landfills for a very long time. Is there another way to reuse them [...]

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Don’t “Dis” the Plastic That Protects Your Pizza

September 12, 2007

Did you ever wonder what that plastic piece in the center of your pizza was called? It is called a package saver, and it helps prevent the box from damaging the pizza. According to an article on About.com, it was invented by Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, NY, receiving a patent on this device in 1985. So, what does this have [...]

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