Hubby Garbage Finds

September 2, 2011 By Anne

My husband found this out in front of the neighbor’s house on the night before garbge day. It’s a bunch a saws and drills and manly things!

He was looking at it and even asked the neighbor why he was throwing it away. It needs battery chargers, but that’s it!

The neighbor said my hubby could have it. So it was brought home to live with us. Great….another tool he won’t use.

But….

Garage sale day comes and hubby brings it out to the sale – yeah hubby! (it’s hard to part with tools even if he doesn’t use them)

We got $30.00 for it!!

So, basically he found $30 in the trash!

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Green Living Tip – Use What You Have!

June 17, 2011 By Anne

I had to ship out a prize a few weeks ago and had no box. I was looking around and came up with an idea. I took an old cereal box and opened it up all the way. I basically turned the box inside out.

Then I just taped it back up and viola! A box I can use to ship in.

I was so excited!

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Have you reused anything lately?

Anne

Green Living Tip – Wash Those Bags!!

May 21, 2011 By Anne

I questioned my dad recently as to why he didn’t use reusable bags. He mentioned something about not ever washing the bags and how many germs the bags themselves carry. So I decided to wash mine – all of them.

It was super easy! Just take out the plastic bottoms and throw into the washer. Wash in the delicate or hand washing cycle and hang to dry. You can see some of mine above. When they were dry, I put the bottoms back in and folded. Good as new!!

I will do this more often now that I know I can.

Do you wash your bags?

Anne

What a Wonderful Mother’s Day!

May 8, 2011 By Anne

I had a wonderful Mother’s Day! I hope all of you mothers did as well. I received these lovely flowers, above, at work on Friday. All of the cards I received this morning.

Then I went shopping! I went to Old Navy and got 2 pair of shorts and a cute top. The flip flops were free with the purchase of two shorts – bonus! Then off to Bealls for some awesome comfortable shoes! I was in desperate need of some cute sandals and was so happy to finally find some. Just so you know, I got rid of 3 sandals that were falling apart and put aside 4 others for the next yard sale.

Oh and I’m taking the worn out sandals to a drop off that will recycle the shoes into rubber mulch.

Then off to dinner at my favorite restaurant, Aleyda’s Mexican restaurant. I got a $30.00 GC for $15 through Charitydine.com! The food was great and no one fought, so it was a good time!

Did you have an awesome day? Tell me about it.

Anne

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

April 1, 2011 By Anne

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.