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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…