My friends and I “loosely” formed a book club. We no longer purchase books solely for our own pleasure. One person purchases the book, reads it first, then passes to the other friends. We rotate the purchasing and when we are finished we then donate the book to a library or organization. This is fun, gives us plenty to talk about and what a way to open your world to an author you might have otherwise missed. We sign the inside of the book to keep an ongoing record for the world to know where it’s been.
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With five basic and inexpensive ingredients (baking soda, borax, soap, washing soda, vinegar/lemon) you can create your own household cleaners. You can also personalize them with your favorite essential oils.
Check out http://www.ecocycle.org/hazwaste/recipes.cfm or google “household cleaner recipes”.
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Shopping at second-hand stores is fun, economical, and the best form of recycling.
Drinking tap instead of bottled water (filtered, if necessary) saves money, curbs the privatization of water, and keeps plastic bottles out of our landfills. Also eliminates the resources (like oil) used in making plastic bottles, and the energy spent in transporting plastic bottles filled with water.
Running your washing machine on a cold water cycle slashes your energy bills. Nearly 90% of the electricity used by a washing machine is for heating the water.