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Category: Green Choices

  • Two months of bags for husband, kitty and me

    I didn’t realize how many plastic bags I was using until I started saving them. I have a small family: husband, kitty and me. I don’t shop a lot. The bags in the photo represent only two months of bags I received when making purchases. These bags were given to…

  • Using the reusables

    I’ve now made two successful shopping trips with my reusable bags. Both times, my purchases easily fit into the three ECO bags I got from reusablebags.com. And carrying them on my shoulders was much easier than trying to balance seven different plastic bags in my hands. You may be wondering…

  • Bins at apartments

    Unfortunately I wasn’t home when the post office tried to deliver my reusable shopping bags Saturday. Now I’m doomed to wait in the always over-long line at my local post office. But on to other things. The property manager for my apartments called me back as she promised she would.…

  • Shopping baggies

    As promised, I have found some reusable shopping bags to take to the store. They are machine-washable and the description claims they hold more than the usual plastic shopping bag. I ordered them from www.reusablebags.com. Just go to Shopping Bags / Basic Tote. I selected the ECOBAGS Recycled Cotton Tote…

  • Recycle day

    It was time for my first trip to the recycling bins. Remember, my apartments don’t have them, so it’s a semi-short drive down the road. When I got to the drop-off, I saw an immediate problem. I thought I could just directly dump my recyclables into the bins, but the…

  • Or better yet

    The really sad thing about plastic bags is that they can harm marine mammals and turtles. I saw a plastic bag floating in the lake at my apartments just a few days ago. There are hundreds of turtles living in that lake. Personally, I like turtles and don’t want to…

  • Things to do with plastic bags

    Plastic bags. I’ve been feeling the guilt over them enough to start collecting all of them to be reused by a local family business. Of course, if you don’t know anyone who can reuse the bags, you can always take them back to the recycling drop-offs at most grocery stores.…

  • Follow up to “Junk mail blahs”

    I received an email from Live Earth on their recommendation for getting rid of junk mail. It’s 1.888.5OPT.OUT

  • Re-use old towels

    It’s a reasonable thing to buy new towels when your old ones are starting to get threadbare. But unless they are really falling apart, don’t throw them out. What? Give them away? Who would want these nasty things that you’ve dried off with hundreds of times? Puppies, dogs, cats and…

  • Chest of drawers

    This is a great use of drawers from old pieces of furniture at poaa.com. I wonder how stable it is? I’m not sure a cat could crawl over it.