Do you buy magazines or have subscriptions to some of your favorites? I’m more of a book reader than a magazine reader, but there are a few I subscribe to. What do you do with your magazines when you’re done? If you throw them in the garbage or recycle them that’s the wrong answer. There’s [...]
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I was seriously excited when I heard the news that effective June 1, 2011, residents of Monroe county can start recycling plastic containers with numbers one through seven. Up until this point the county was only accepting containers with numbers one and two. (Easy-green-living.org has a nice summary of what each number means.) I was [...]
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I’m very excited that Dorothy Madden, founder and owner of ORGANIZE IT!, a professional organizing company has agreed to write another guest blog. Looking for a cost-effective and convenient solution for shredding your papers? Look no further than your local OfficeMax! Last year OfficeMax partnered with Shred-it, a global leader in secure document destruction, [...]
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As of Christmas we are now a four person, three laptop, three desktop family. One of the desktops is my son’s gaming PC, and we still have our 2 original desktops which come in handy when the laptops are in use. It’s now time to consider whether we really need six computers. I started to [...]
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Do you have old, unwanted electronics laying around? Think about doing something with them now before they lose all their value.
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Back in June I blogged about recycling ink cartridges at Staples. Staples normal policy is they will give you store credit (Staples Rewards) of $3 for every ink cartridge you recycle with them, up to 10 per calendar month. Well they just upped the ante big time on that deal. From November 29 through December [...]
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I’m sure lots of you have heard that you can recycle your old ink cartridges. Did you know that you can get up to a $30 rebate in Staples gift certificates per month? You can trade in up to 10 ink cartridges each month. Staples website says they only take HP, Dell or Lexmark brands [...]
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