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Six Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Grocery Bags

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

These days most grocery stores no longer offer paper sacks, and if you have forgotten your reusable bags, you are probably going to go home with anywhere from one to two dozen little plastic sacks. You can often find these bags at your local grocery store for 99 cents or a dollar or two. Buy a bunch—really you can never have too many.

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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The stores want you to think you need a new one for each job, but you don’t. These days most grocery stores no longer. If you would like to help conserve energy and protect the environment then you have to be sure to avoid. Leaves gathered by the lawn tractor are chopped by the mower and piled up to use as mulch.

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