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FREE Kindle Book: Composting Inside & Out

Saving Cents With Sense

FREE Kindle Book: Composting Inside & Out. I love finding FREE books, don’t you? Right now you can get this Kindle book, Composting Inside & Out: The comprehensive guide to reusing trash, saving money and enjoying the benefits of organic gardening for FREE (normally $16.99). Don’t have a kindle?

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How To Pack A Waste-Free Lunch

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the organization Waste Free Lunches , the average school-age child eating lunches in disposable packaging generates some 67 pounds of waste per school year. Everything in that lunch bag can be washed and reused or at least an be dealt with in an environmentally-friendly manner. The list goes on and on.

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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Compost it by cutting it up and putting it on the pile. Like me, buy them used and then reuse them each year. Free Kids Crafts has some ideas. What do you do to recycle/reuse on Halloween?

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

Before kids, I spent my free-time volunteering at a stray rescue shelter for dogs. This doesn’t include the many free in-library activities we’ve enjoyed over the years. Louis means so many options for free activities! We share our home with a 70lb rescued mutt. Enjoying some outdoor time. Purple raspberries from my garden.

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10 Uses for Orange Peels

Saving Cents With Sense

Why not reuse and save some money! #1 Once you finish your healthy treat, you can compost those peels and make that dead-grass-covered patch of land into a fertile tract of soil that will let those rose bushes you’ve always wanted to plant grow to be green and strong. Feel free to drop me a comment below.

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10 Ways To Make Your Home A Zero-Waste Facility

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

And while there are many individuals and groups working to make that a reality, it’s a rather difficult achievement because of the way we have set our society up to be one of convenience and disposability rather than reuse. Stop Buying Things In Plastic Beth from My Plastic Free Life has pretty much eliminated plastic from her life.

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10 Uses for Orange Peels

Saving Cents With Sense

Why not reuse and save some money! #1 Once you finish your healthy treat, you can compost those peels and make that dead-grass-covered patch of land into a fertile tract of soil that will let those rose bushes you’ve always wanted to plant grow to be green and strong. Feel free to drop me a comment below.

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