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How To Re-use Common Items

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Plastic containers from sliced lunch meat are great for leftover vegetable or casserole servings. Once we used old magazines for a craft project in Camp Fire Girls to make a ‘sit upon’ (cover the magazine with something water repellent and sew the sides together). 8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse.

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What We Ate this Week on a Budget | 06.05.15

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” I know that I can recycle the bags, but it seemed wasteful to me and I have to think about whether I’ll do the service again. Thursday: We had a busy night, so I treated my girls to Subway for dinner to celebrate the end of the school year. They used 22 plastic bags to bag 31 items. Have you tried it?

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