Still buying and using paper checks from your bank? There is a better way! While some banks provide checks and checkbooks for free, most of them charge a small fortune for a book of checks. Luckily, there are plenty of companies offering checks at discounted rates far below whatever your bank is charging you, and [...]
Let’s face it — we all need to buy shoes from time to time. Some more than others of course, but even if you wear a single pair of shoes for years you will eventually need to buy another pair, right? And while I always check out the local Goodwill or used clothing store to [...]
I just came across this company called ReBinder that makes binders, CD Sleeves, notebooks, labels, folders, and tabbed dividers out of recycled paper. But I think the coolest thing they have is a recycled paper business card made of 100% recycled paper in a natural brown cardstock. All you have to do is download their [...]
This weeks Do One Thing is about the checks that you write. If you are anything like me, you don’t write many checks at all – I think I write about 2 or 3 a month at most with everything else being paid automatically online (the greenest way to go). But because we ran out [...]
This is an easy one that you won’t even have to suffer for! If every household in America switched out just ONE roll of regular TP for recycled TP, we would: Save 470,000 trees, Use 1.2 million cubic feet LESS landfill space Save about 169 million gallons of water Now imagine if you switched out [...]
I wrote this post for the holidays last year, but hey – it’s that time of year again so I thought I would bring it back to the forefront again. If you have any tips to add, please leave them in the comment section! Store bought wrapping paper, while it looks nice on the gifts, [...]
About a month ago or so, the people from Terracycle sent me a box full of their products to try out. I have written about Terracycle before when talking about the lack of plastic recycling here in town, and I have always been envious that I had not thought of their idea – upcycling plastic [...]
