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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I save money where I can, reusing old food containers for my multitude of seasonal seedlings, getting free five-gallon buckets from the bakery to use for extra growing space, making compost from our fruit and vegetable scraps, and starting almost everything from seed. Readers, the floor is yours!

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Don’t Recycle, Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Recycling is great for the environment and we should all be doing it (in spite of my title), but reusing is even better. When you can reuse or re-purpose an item, you are not only saving it from the landfills, but you are also saving the expense and energy which would have been expended when you recycle. Plastic trash bags.

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Sweet Dreams Together: A Guide to Safe and Peaceful Cosleeping with Your Newborn

Koupon Karen

Models meet diverse preferences and meet portability needs, material priorities, and budget limits. These “mini cribs” prove portable between rooms and durable for reuse down generations as family bedtime solutions promoting healthy attachment through the most natural path – touch.

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Eco-Friendly Money Saving Tips

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are looking to save money on food but you are struggling to make ends meet, you can look into loans for bad credit direct lenders. If you are always forgetting your eco-friendly bag, you can reuse an old supermarket bag as well, it’s a good idea to keep these inside a handbag or rucksack you know you are always carrying. .

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How to Embrace a Sustainable Living Lifestyle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

He describes sustainability as “shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system” People often refer to their attempts at sustainability as “going green”, being eco-friendly or adopting an eco-living lifestyle.

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Going Green at Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Reduce paper use – look at ways to reduce the amount of paper used in the business; recycle waste in an environmentally-friendly manner; reuse waste paper where possible. Turn off appliances when not in use and set computers to hibernate automatically after 10 to 15 minutes.

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How to Go Green Witout Going Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The old phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” is crucial when it comes to small, and inexpensive, ways of going green. For example, rather than purchase water in plastic bottles, invest in a faucet-mount water filter that retails for less than $40 and reuse glass juice and milk bottles. Start Small.

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