University students are always coming and going around here but they leave some good stuff behind.
Today I discovered a perfectly good bookshelf for my bedroom as a bedside table. I had to kill a couple spiders and dust it off but it’s working for me.
Previously I had a mountain of books stacked beside the bed [...]
We have so many soup and coffee cans to recycle so I thought I would explore different ways of reusing them.
Bake bread. Soup cans make cute little round slices of bread. Try banana bread, zuchinni bread, raisin bran or carrot cake muffin/cake recipes.
Use them as a candle mold. Either insert a tabbed wick and fill [...]
Instead of pitching all your paper in the recycling bin, try some of these creative ways of recycling.
Wallpaper
Use old wallpaper to decorate boxes, photo frames and shelves. Create a makeshift crate out of a sturdy wallpapered cardboard box or decoupage a candle. Make and decorate a dollhouse with cardboard and wallpaper.
Magazines
Make gorgeous beads out of [...]
The word freegan came from combining the words free and vegan.
“Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.” (What is Freegan, Freegan info, 2007)
Freegans share resources that would otherwise be wasted which minimizes the impact of consumption on the [...]
