Tips 026 - 050

26. Clean out your basement or attic and have a yard sale, or donate it to a community group sale.

27. Use rags for clean-up, not paper towels.

28. Use cereal boxes and milk cartons for garbage. See of you can go for a week without using a garbage can.

29. Take your used motor oil to a service centre that collects it. Many do, just call.

30. Buy re-fined motor oil.

31. Reuse envelopes by putting labels over the old labels.

32. Reuse file folders by putting labels over the old labels.

33. Keep a couple of bags in your car or purse for those unplanned purchases.

34. If you have to use aluminium pie plates, reuse them or give them to a local daycare or school.

35. Buy recycled toilet paper and tissues.

36. When wrapping gifts, use string instead of tape; the string is cheaper and can be reused.

37. Buy rechargeable batteries and rechargeable fire extinguishers.

38. University and college students: don't buy all the textbooks on your list, use the school library.

39. Buy recycled paper, photocopy on recycled paper, support businesses that use recycled paper.

40. Reupholster an old sofa rather than buy a new one.

41. Buy products in recyclable, or better yet, refillable containers.

42. Shop at used book stores and use the library instead of buying new books.

43. Buy a potted Christmas tree that will live year after year, or an imitation tree, or string lights on your largest cactus and have a true "felliz navidad".

44. Take wire coat hangers back to the dry cleaners/

45. Share magazines with a friend or donate them to the hospital or doctors office.

46. Instead of buying new toys for your children,, encourage them to make things. It will be good for the environment and great for their creative minds.

47. Spend a little more to buy durable products that will last and save you money in the long run.

48. Donate unwanted clothes and household goods to the local thrift store (or local church), and shop there.

49. Place a PET bottle filled with water in the tank of your toilet. This will reduce the amount of water used per flush by the volume of water the PET bottle contains.

50. Avoid buying aerosol cans; they can't be reused or recycled.

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