200 Ways to Reuse, Repurpose & Recycle for Earth Day
Are you a “saver?”
You might claim it as your heritage (the Dutch are infamous for penny pinching and using everything fully) or inspired by an experience (those who lived through the Great Depression never threw anything away that had value) or because of your “green” sensibilities (it would be wasteful and harmful to the environment not to reuse things).
I’ve always been this way, like in kindergarten when I “saved” worms and salamanders until my garage took on the permanent smell of “dead animal,” and through grade school when I “saved” my most precious fancy-tipped markers (they dried out before I used them up) and my special watercolor set (my children still have it today, twenty years later…okay, 25 years), and of course into high school when I buried my room in things to “save:” memorabilia, keepsakes from dances, letters from friends I met at summer camp, and even triangular-folded notes passed desk to desk during class.
Now that I’m older and wiser – the latter being up for debate – I have much more of a yen to declutter and get rid of “stuff,” but I still feel the deeply entrenched urge to save things that I might use someday. It’s the green in me coming through – reduce, reuse, recycle. My decluttering focuses mostly on keeping new things from coming IN so I can work to use what we already have.
This month is host to Earth Day and a great time to focus on how much your family throws away. I challenge you to save some usable items from being trashed this month, and here are 200 practical ways to inspire you to “Re-use the Refuse…”
1. Free Preschool Activities with Repurposed Kitchen Items
2. Repurposed Kitchen Containers all Over the House
3. A Dozen Ways to use an Old Sheet (even if you’re not crafty)
4. 9 Ways to Eat your Garbage
5. 30+ Ways to use Eggshells
6. 15 Ways to Reuse Plastic Grocery Bags
7. 30 Things to do with Old T-Shirts
8. Garden Repurposing and Growing the Perfect Tomato
9. 15 Ways to Reuse Glass Jars
Katie Kimball is a mom of two who spends a ton of time in the kitchen making real food with whole ingredients and then blogs about her successes and failures at Kitchen Stewardship. She believes everything in life is a gift from God and should be taken care of wisely.
200 Ways to Reuse, Repurpose & Recycle for Earth Day is a post from Life Your Way
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