Green Living Tip – Don’t Just Recycle – Reuse!

We all want to recycle, bu t what about reusing what we have! The box pictured is a cereal box covered in wrapping paper. I wanted to make these for Christmas but never got around to it. Just punch a few holes in it and tie ribbon through and you have a tote!

At work, we needed something to put our patients personal information in until we place it in the “shredder box”. The “shredder box” is in another part of the office and we try to only go there once a day or every other day. Anyways, we’ve all been putting the papers on the ground or on a chair and it looked a little messy. So my boss suggested we each get a box from home and wrap them up and use them instead. This is mine. I ended up making the other 2 as well.

So don’t just recycle – try to reuse too!

Anne

I'm a mother of 2 who likes to get involved in too much! Besides writing here I started a non-profit, I'm on the PTO board, very active in my community and volunteer in the school. I enjoy music, reading, cooking, traveling and spending time with my family. We just adopted our 3rd cat and love them all!

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  1. What a great idea! I try to do both but sometimes I just cant think of what to do with things. Like I have been saving all of our baby wipe plastic boxes and baby food jars but I am at a loss as to what they could be used for.

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  2. mommy2luke2008 says

    That would be an awesome gift box!!! I never thought of that! Great idea!!!

  3. CarliAlice @ GG2Life says

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