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8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Today, I am going to share with you 8 ways you can recycle, reduce, and reuse. Reuse what you can. We also save containers from items and reuse them for storage at a later time. For example, if we buy ice cream in a tub, I save the tub to freeze homemade stock at a later date. Reuse scrap paper and envelopes.

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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Below is a list of things I (or hubby) have personally saved and reused. Plastic one gallon ice cream tubs (we love ice cream) make great containers to carry food to picnics or gatherings. They fit nicely into ice chests and won’t break. 8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse. Containers.

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Reminder: Free Chick-fil-a & A Cute Cow!

For the Mommas

She is reusing her older child’s costume! Walmart Ice Cream Social: Free Nestle Drumsticks. Don’t forget to get your free Chick-fil-a meal today ! Reader Sycocat sent in this adorable picture of her 13 month old son. If you dress up like a cow today, I would love to share your photo too! Freebie Friday 6/24.

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My Word for 2019

Family Balance Sheet

The author, Bea Johnson, chronicles her journey of zero waste living through 5 Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot. However, I made it through the ice cream aisle yesterday at GIANT with nothing falling into my cart. This is my referral Amazon link, but I found the book at the library.). It was a good day!!

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Used Furniture – Re-purpose, Recycle, Re-use.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

However, there are ways to safely and beautifully reuse/restore items such as beds, sofas, chairs and decorative pillows. The toy ice cream table and chairs from my Mom’s childhood have an iron frame, which I stripped and spray painted. For less valuable used furniture, you might want to strip, sand and refinish them.

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Petroleum jelly to slather on the inside of the mold, so you can get the concrete out and reuse the mold. I cut the top off of a rectangular plastic ice cream container for the mold (I used the bottom and 3 inches on the sides). Something to use to write messages on the wet cement. Pretty things to embed in the wet cement.

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Nicole’s Nickels Greatest Holiday Gifts of 2012: Older Children!

Nicoles Nickels

Product includes 4 figurines of Spongebob, Patrick, Sandy and an ice-cream man, along with a ferris wheel, ice cream shop and other park amusements. . With 60 stickers to create and paint, the possibilities are endless for kids as they peel and reuse their stickers to decorate their lockers, notebooks, and more!

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