I’m posted candles in my local Buy Nothing group. I’m helping a neighbor downsize and they had all these candles… Luckily I checked the list at Austin Creative Reuse and they Do Not accept candles. I imagine they get so many because there are a lot of people that end up in this situation. I…
Doing a little mending tonight on Cute-achu. Make a little mending kit with the most popular colors that you wear so you can fix a seam or a button when you need to. Here’s a mending kit from HEB. Who has all these colors? Plus you have to process the packaging. I’d rather get more…
Shredding is available at UPS! I am so excited to share that at least at my local UPS in Austin, they have partnered with Iron Mountain and now offer secure shredding for $1 a pound. It all gets recycled too! Recycle your broken shredder at your local Goodwill, Best Buy or recycling center. Donate you’re…
Legos can be cleaned with makeup brushes. @bricksandminifigsatx shared the secret with me the last time I was in there. Feather dusters don’t work and they get caught on everything, and an air blower, like compression air for your computer, is too strong. Reuse those makeup brushes that you aren’t using, I don’t use any…
House clean out for Austin Creative Reuse and Goodwill Central Texas. I did find the keyboard that was lost, and I found a whole bunch of other things. As I’ve mentioned it’s not new stuff. It’s just stuff that I’m seeing with new eyes and ready to move along. A lot of it’s craft and…
I had the best of intentions when I started out with a dry erase board for my husband’s job. Sometimes he needs to plan out what he’s working on so I created a whiteboard since that is what he uses at work. Read RETHINK: Dry Erase Boards & Picture Frames. I first found these Pilot…
Processing kids’ crafts. There are so many different types of materials that kids use in crafts and projects. Let’s work on a few. Also, it’s okay to process you kids’ art. You can’t keep all of it. Take pictures, keep a few, but keep things moving. #kids#kidscrafts#kidsart#schoolart#lesslandfill#zerowaste#sustainbility#momlife#makingchoices You may also like: Kids Artwork
New Gorilla Tape for my porch collection bins. The duct tape someone gave me isn’t sticking, nor did the previous roll really, so I needed to try a new tape to keep the laminated signs on the plastic bins. It’s so sticky and tears so well! I think it’s going to work out well! These…
Please do not buy confetti balloons. If you must, please do not pop them outside. If you pop them outside, do not do it on a windy day and pickup/vacuum all the confetti. I did a campus cleanup at my son’s school last month and I was still finding confetti in the grass four months…
I have a new porch bin to collect for my neighbors: crafts and school/office supplies for Austin Creative Reuse. All my bins and bricks are donated/reused as is the duct tape. The laminator is secondhand and keeps the signs protected from the weather. Duct tape is the only tape that seems to hold up in…