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Save your St. Patrick’s Day stuff

Save your St. Patrick’s Day stuff

Posted on March 18, 2022March 21, 2022Author TaylorPosted in Crafts/Office/School/Meetings, Plastics, ReusableLeave a Reply

Save all your St. Patrick’s Day things to reuse for next year or for other holidays or purposes. So many holidays have green as part of their celebration colors. You’ll save money not buying it next year, save time not buying or looking (store it well), and save resources being prepared for next year. Don’t buy…

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Flower Vases (Reuse)

Flower Vases (Reuse)

Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022Author TaylorPosted in Composting, ReusableLeave a Reply

Once your flowers fade, what do you do with your vase? There are other options besides thrift stores and secondhand stores which receive tons of flower vases. Local options include churches that break up their weekly service flowers to deliver to homebound members, your local Buy Nothing group or Nextdoor. Try to reuse your vases…

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Wire Hangers

Wire Hangers

Posted on February 13, 2022February 16, 2022Author TaylorPosted in Crafts/Office/School/Meetings, Metals, Recycling, ReusableLeave a Reply

Take wire hangers back to the dry cleaners or find a local one near you. They always appreciate those (reuse is free to the business and allows them to save money) and many places will have a collection bin out by the counter. Charity clothing closets are another option but call ahead both to see if…

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Eyeglasses Recycling

Eyeglasses Recycling

Posted on January 20, 2022January 20, 2022Author TaylorPosted in Children, Recycling, Reusable, Zero WasteLeave a Reply

In honor of National Glaucoma Awareness Month (January) and eye health I want to talk a little bit about eyewear. I’m going to share about eyeglasses and eyedrops here. You can learn about contact lens recycling in my post I’ve Got My Eyes On You. First, about glaucoma: Glaucoma is called “the sneak thief of…

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Squeasy Silicone Food Pouch

Squeasy Silicone Food Pouch

Posted on January 9, 2022January 10, 2022Author TaylorPosted in Children, Food, ReusableLeave a Reply

My four year old son has been requesting strawberry smoothies lately. We make these at home in a Vitamix, but any blender would work, just defrost your frozen fruit a little longer if your blender blades can’t handle fully frozen fruit. If you don’t have a blender, check you local Buy Nothing or Craigslist pages…

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RETHINK: Picture Frame Crafts & Replacements

RETHINK: Picture Frame Crafts & Replacements

Posted on December 8, 2021December 8, 2021Author TaylorPosted in Crafts/Office/School/Meetings, Product Ideas & Reviews, ReusableLeave a Reply

I’ve shared before on how to think of different ways to use picture frames. In a previous post I talked about how I turned a standard picture frame purchased at the craft store into a white board/dry erase board. The need for the white board went away. How my husband was brainstorming changed so the…

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Finished: 100 Day Dress Challenge

Finished: 100 Day Dress Challenge

Posted on December 3, 2021December 3, 2021Author TaylorPosted in Health and Beauty, Product Ideas & Reviews, ReusableLeave a Reply

My 100 Day Dress Challenge is finished. My 100 days were August 19 – November 27, 2021. It was easier than I expected. No mooning, playground or underwear incidents. I was not as creative as I expected. I did not bust out all my jewelry or change much daily. The dress held up way better…

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Kudos to Neighbor Collections

Kudos to Neighbor Collections

Posted on October 12, 2021October 12, 2021Author TaylorPosted in Recycling, ReusableLeave a Reply

I want to share a shout-out to my neighbors for their efforts and offer some ideas for ways you can help be a little more green/zero waste. I’m sharing the results of several collections my neighborhood all did over the last couple of weeks: They provided three big boxes of paper grocery bags for reuse…

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Ice Pack Give Back

Ice Pack Give Back

Posted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021Author TaylorPosted in Food, Product Ideas & Reviews, ReusableLeave a Reply

You can schedule a FREE PICKUP from Trashless for them to reuse those ice packs you receive with your meal subscription or food delivery. Trashless will “sanitize them, and reuse them with our own zero-waste, local, sustainable grocery delivery service.” It’s a great way to reuse these and keep it local. If you’ll recall in…

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RETHINK: Clips

RETHINK: Clips

Posted on September 12, 2021September 12, 2021Author TaylorPosted in Health and Beauty, ReusableLeave a Reply

Easy and helpful Rethink: Jumbo binder clips, chip clips and a random clothes pin to air dry reusable menstrual pads. Then those can all be reused for their original purposes at a later date. Honestly, I’m still working on being 100% comfortable normalizing talk and publishing images about menstrual equity and menstruation topics, but I…

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