Archive Category: 'Green Living'

• 25 Cheap or Free Garden Gear Items: Repurposing: Today’s feature is from Better Homes And Gardens with 25 No-Cost (or Low-Cost) Garden Tools: Any job is easier when you have the right tool. Read on for our list of the 25 best ideas for garden tools that you can buy or make in minutes — and none costs more than a pack of seeds. Ideas Include: The [...]
• Simple Recycling Center: DIY Project: Today’s feature is from Sunset with this Simple DIY Recycling Center: It’s easy to close the back door and pretend that the jumble of recycling bins and garbage cans outside doesn’t exist ― but that only works when you’re in the house. Building a short lean-to just big enough to hold everything solves the problem. This is a [...]
• Lou Manfredini’s Top Ten Energy Saving Tips: Today’s post is quite a treat! Here are some first-rate suggestions by Lou Manfredini, Ace Hardware’s Helpful Hardware Man. He’s put together a list of energy saving tips for Tipnut readers to help us cut back on energy usage and save some cash in the process. Hi everyone, this is Lou Manfredini, Ace’s “Helpful Hardware Man”. [...]
• Homemade Granite & Marble Cleaner: Here’s a recipe for an earth-friendly “green” cleaner suitable for many household surfaces including granite and marble. Ingredients: 2 cups water 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar 1 tsp pure castile soap (peppermint, etc.) 3/4 cup hydrogen peroxide 20 drops tea tree oil 20 drops lavender or lemongrass essential oil. Directions: Mix all ingredients in a 32-ounce plastic spray bottle. Cleaner can be used to clean [...]
• How To Make Homemade Feminine Pads: Free Pattern List: If you’re into the environment and saving money, this is a great tip–imagine never having to buy disposable menstrual pads again! Reusable homemade pads really are soft and lovely. Even though I don’t faithfully use them, I did make a large stack for myself (with a complimentary flannel drawstring bag to hold them in) and packed [...]
• Environmentally Friendly Baking Tips: Today’s feature is a video giving a few ideas for helping both your power bill and the environment: Video Summary: Buy larger cookie sheets (that will fit inside your oven) rather than small ones. This will allow you to bake more cookies (bigger batches) at once. Consider purchasing recycled parchment paper, baking cups, etc. Make drop cookies rather than [...]
• How To Recycle Anything: Today’s feature is from RealSimple with an A-Z guide for How to Recycle Anything. There are 8 pages full of items and how to recycle them, did you know: Backpacks. The American Birding Association accepts donated backpacks, which its scientists use while tracking neotropical birds (www.americanbirding.org). Crayons. Send them to the National Crayon Recycle Program (www.crazycrayons.com), which [...]
• Homemade Swiffer Cloth Patterns: A bunch of new patterns for reusable swiffer cloths added! Who doesn’t hate paying money for swiffer cloths that you just end up throwing out? Here are a few ideas for making reusable ones from cloth plus a bunch of knit, crochet & sewing patterns to make your own: Use old flannel diapers, jogging fleece, flannel [...]
• 12 Ways To Reuse Newspaper Around The House: Use sheets of newspaper to wash your windows, glass table tops and mirrors. Just spray on window cleaner then wipe clean with a sheet of newspaper. Use in messy cleanup jobs like cleaning the oven, use sheets of crumpled newspaper to wipe up most of the gunk before wiping down with a soapy wet sponge. Pack newspapers [...]
• 12 Easy Ways To Go Green (And Save Cash): Here are a few ideas to help cut household waste, consume less plus most of these tips will save you a few dollars every month. The added bonus: they’re all ways to introduce a little earth friendliness into your home. 12 Easy Ways To Go Green Use A Clothesline: see How to Use a Clothesline, Lazy Line [...]
• Reusing Plastic Milk Jug Ideas: Today’s feature is from Frugal Dad with 12 Household Uses for Used Plastic Containers, plus a few more tips listed below: In a very small way, we are doing our part to reduce waste and find new uses to extend the useful life of everyday products. It is my hope that this post inspires you to [...]
• 20 Things You Can Use Twice Before Tossing: Dry Cleaning Bags: Use to pack suits, dresses and fine clothing when traveling, this will help protect it from wrinkles when packing. When storing the bags make sure to keep them safely out of reach of children, they really are that dangerous. Butter Wrappers: Once you’ve removed a block of butter from its wrapping, place the [...]
• Organizing Tip Of The Day: Recycling Center: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart for a Cheap & Easy Recycling Center: Wide, interlocking bins with open faces and tops make it easy to sort recyclable goods. Screw metal label holders to the front of each bin with stove bolts; attach the bottom bin to a wide dolly with utility-drawer latches, available at hardware stores. [...]
• Frugal Recycling Ideas For Gardening: Today’s feature is from Nature Moms with some neat tips for Recycling “Stuff” for Your Garden : There are actually many things around the house that can be used to get seedlings started and it makes use of garbage you have around the house, effectively recycling things to give them another use. You’ll find tips for using [...]
• Make Your Own Organic Potting Soil: If you make your own organic potting mix, you still have to avoid using any prohibited ingredients, and that means checking out all the individual ingredients for their organic acceptability. It may surprise you to learn that products like peat moss or limestone are sometimes treated with prohibited materials such as wetting or anti-caking agents, so [...]
• 5 Ideas For Used Envelopes: Cut a corner off used envelopes and use as bookmark corner sleeves–just slide one over the page you are at and you’ll find your place easily the next time you pick up the book. No more folded corners and nice way to utilize used envelopes! Slit them open and use for scrap paper, to do lists, [...]