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Ways to Make Your Next Move More Eco Friendly

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Here are some ways we recycled our moving waste: Creative Ways to Use the Excess Supply. Building a fort out of the boxes is another way to recycle and keep the kids entertained. We hauled all the excess out to recycling on our curbside recycling day. Wrapping paper. Practical Ways to Use the Excess. Sell the excess.

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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Recycling is a simple and obvious practice that children can easily understand. Teach them how to recycle household items like plastic bottles, aluminum cans, paper, etc. You can even let them manage the responsibility in your household and reward with them with the earnings from recycling cans and bottles at local recycle centers.

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Tips for a Frugal and Eco-Friendly Spring

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Re-use, recycle or re-sell. So instead of just dumping the lot, categorize your clutter into things that can be recycled, things that can be given away and things that can be sold on. When rushing headlong into a spring cleaning fenzy it’s easy get carried away and just throw away all of your unwanted items.

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Being Environmentally Friendly Saves Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

With eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, Gum Tree and more similar sites, if you look around you are more than likely able to find exactly what you need for much less. Learn to reduce, reuse recycle everything. Everything has another use is a saying often heard in regards to recycling.