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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.

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8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Thankfully, there are easy ways for us consumers to change this number and make a difference. Today, I am going to share with you 8 ways you can recycle, reduce, and reuse. This makes them easy to wash and use time and time again. Use concentrated household products. Reuse what you can. Go rechargeable.

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12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ah, recycling. It’s been around forever in one form another, whether back when your grandmother reused glass bottles for canning or in 2014 when a truck comes around to pick up all those empty soda cans you put out at the end of your driveway. Let’s take a look at a few items you may not have known were recyclable. Your Old Car.

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10 Upcycled Storage Solutions

Couponing 101

After my “tidying up” adventures , I was inspired to find other ways of using everyday items to organize my life, otherwise known as my upcycled storage solutions! I like the idea of transforming items that I usually throw away into something useful. Recycled Can Cutlery Holder. Cord Organizer.

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10 Unusual Uses for Empty Toilet Paper Rolls

Saving With Shellie

We all hear it – “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. Recycling can often be easy but I love finding opportunities to Reuse. Obviously, an easy recyclable item, it can also be used to make many fun crafts and other clever ideas. Open the cut roll and lay it over the two, using the curves to encase them.

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Packing Light: Tips for Your Toiletry Bag

Shereen Travels Cheap

Even when I do more than usual, I still don't use too many products. I rounded up all the things I normally use at home. These are all full sizes and I chose the three eyeshadow palettes I use most often, sometimes I mix and match. I've also included what I use for my hair and my eyecare.

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How To Pack A Waste-Free Lunch

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the organization Waste Free Lunches , the average school-age child eating lunches in disposable packaging generates some 67 pounds of waste per school year. Just stop using disposables. Everything in that lunch bag can be washed and reused or at least an be dealt with in an environmentally-friendly manner.

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