So these "green ideas" have gotten away from me on a weekly basis...but I do have some good ones for the month of December!
1. Try to wrap all your presents this year WITHOUT buying any new bags or wrapping paper! Maybe even try to make your own paper with old paper scraps!
2. The debate continues on which is better - a fake tree or real tree. And the consensus seems to be...buy a real tree from a LOCAL tree farm (like Cobbs, here in Fresno) and make sure you chop it up and put it in your green barrel or compost pile when you're done.
3. Don't buy a new gift when you can find it used! Reduce waste by finding well-taken-care-of toys, books, or housewares in place of "brand new" items. Americans are obsessed with newer, better, and MORE...and it's filling our landfills with gently used items that still have a lot of life in them!
4. Resist buying all the little, plastic, party-favor type stocking gifts/toys (you know...the ones they put on the aisle end-caps, or at the check-out) or table/house decorations. You'd be surprised how much money you can save by not buying all the little things! And there won't be a bunch of little, broken toys and decorations in the trash (or hopefully, recycling cans) in the coming weeks!
Shop green, live green, and save green this Holiday Season!
1 comment:
Good Ideas. We would love to get our tree locally at Cobbs. We did that our first year married but I broke out in horrible hives anywhere the tree touched my skin, so I'm not a big fan of their trees. Has that happened to anyone else or am I just lucky?
Also, Don't forget about LED lights instead of traditional Christmas lights for your decorating. A standard sting to go outside your house costs ~$6.00 for 6 hours of burning for 60 days. An LED string of lights costs ~$0.10 (thats right, 10 cents!) over the same time. (This according to the packaging on the kind we got, which was GE C7 lights)
They also don't break or shatter if you drop them, are cool to the touch and they will last the equivalent of 20 holiday seasons.
Click here for more info on LED lights:
http://www.pge.com/res/holiday_lighting.html
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