Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Green Christmas - Tips for a thrifty and environmentally friendly holiday season

Here are many tips and ideas to save money and promote environmental sustainability.

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1. Get a notebook. Keep a small notebook with you wherever you go. It is used to keep a list of gift ideas for people. When you are ready to buy, look at the notebook and plan your trip on which you can get more items. Cross off items when they received it and pencil in items you purchased for the people when you are out, sonot "over-buy for people.

Green Christmas - Tips for a thrifty and environmentally friendly holiday season

2. Old and New, and homemade. Do you think that giving each person a small new element, something in the house, and used with extreme caution. Our company focuses on "Buy new, used once and throw it out 'mentality, and this will encourage a gift from new and used products.

3. Sources for used items. Freecycle Express consignment shops, craigslist, thrift stores, eBay. For used books, used books try localShops and alibris.com. Paperbackswap.com Check your books for the trade books of other people - you only pay shipping. The most avid readers, if a book has been used before. This method provides a ton of your readers can book the price of one or two new paperbacks, perhaps even entire collections of their favorite authors.

4. Home-made objects. If you're smart, Tinker. If you photograph, you do an album or a frame, some vents and make mugs, puzzles orother goods from sites like Flash Winkl. If you sew, consider fabric bags or gift bags of extra fabric or old clothes. If you are handy around the house, give some certificates for your skills (carpentry, computers, you name it). If cooking, some canned food, apple sauce mix to make cookies, cookies, popcorn balls, snack mix and other snacks. If you hunt, do some shots or sausages. If beer, make some nice 6-pack or a bottle of wine with pretty labels.Everyone has skills ... turn them into gifts! If you are younger, make-up and give vouchers for free child care, snow removal, grass cutting or domestic "work."

5. Gift of Green. Buy gardening supplies and seeds, and a garden center gift card. Purchase compact fluorescent (CF) light bulbs and help install them. Get a programmable thermostat. An electric blanket to keep your loved ones can be roasted and re-set the thermostat at night. Buy an energy audit forsomeone. Smart power strips are great for running "ghost" of things like chargers and computer peripherals. someone buys a bicycle, new or used, if they could and would commute with him.

6. Gifts to support the economy. Give him a subscription to Dave Ramsey's My Total Money Makeover or tickets to one of his shows. During the holidays (Thanksgiving), Dave sold his best-selling books for sale. Buy a few cookbooks for those who eat out a lot and want to save moneyMoney. Give them to teach cooking classes or good for you, cook. Get them some new and used books on financial management or self-improvement. book suggestions would be "the total Money Makeover," "The Millionaire Next Door" and "The Complete Tightwad Gazette". Buy board games, outdoor equipment / toys, playing cards and a rulebook Hoyle Card Poker and teach them the old "real".

7. Save the packaging. $ 2.3 jillion dollars spent each year for the wind and the tags, allto get thrown out. Recycle paper bags and Sunday comics for packaging, gift bags or cloth making in various formats from waste or "Buy the Pound" clothing from yard sales or thrift. These bags can double as shopping bags and cloth in a pinch. You can purchase reusable shopping bags and put your gifts in them. Pay a penny for each child tag bit too nice to make construction paper and some stamps. Save some large boxes of supplies or purchase and fill wrinkledNewspaper or peanuts annoying, then buried inside a small gift. Someone may have the big box or recycle their dead prey home.

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holiday season sees a lot of parties and guests to rest in Here are some ideas for the fun continues without spending a lot of money.

1. Bring a dish. If you have a party, ask everyone to bring food. Also ask them to save on gas carpool with others and parking. Enter aspecial gift for the carpool driver / rider.

2. Budget Booze. If the sale of alcohol to it, larger vessels are usually less expensive per unit, as long as you do not have any waste. Some box and jug wines are great for parties. Tasty beverages may discourage soaking too. Take a pot of mulled (spiced) apple cider on the stove to soften the air and give people something interesting to drink and alcohol free.

3. SayCheese. You can save a boatload of snack crackers entirely reasonable in the field. The same goes for cheese and a string of large blocks of cheese. There are always good and cheap to bring snacks or to serve. Make your own veggie trays and shrimp, to save some money.

4. Cookie Party! Invite some friends for a day all-party cookies. If you are going up all the ingredients, you can use larger sizes and save costs. You can also divide the expensiveIngredients such as nuts and candied fruit. You can mix glass (cookies, coffee and beverages, etc.) at the same time. Pick up some funky windows, every time I see them, and you have some real home-made gifts.

5. Look at the expensive items. Producing meat, dairy products, fish and nuts tend to be expensive entertainment. I am not suggesting that only serve bread, but plan your menu of meat and less expensive to produce, and you can save a lot, but funStyle. For example, to save a bit 'of your dinner chicken and buffalo chicken dip.

6. Keep the freezer and pantry provided. You never know when people drop, otherwise you will be the expiration of the time to cook. Keep frozen snacks and appetizers are available, and bags of chips, salsa and cheese dip are available means you always have a snack for unexpected guests or when the family can not eat.

Home Life

The holidays are stressfulTimes. Here are some ideas to save money, be green and laid a good foundation for next year.

1. Plan pre-cook and -. Take a day of Thanksgiving and the block a few hours to get the card in the next month, in advance of the foods that you do after your purchase if you want to know what "you want to meet milestones main, such as making a place to fifth. December. Print this calendar and post it to your refrigerator. Every Sunday morning, clean the list and make aAction Plan for the week.

2. Re-use and trade. If you take decorations out, apart from those who want to use you, no more. Any children who may have really taken off as a gift.

3. Dim the lights. They set up outdoor lights, put on a timer and / or back on the number of lights. This will save on electricity. Place your tree lights on a timer too.

4. Only eat. When shopping, eatingfirst home. They are more stable and are not encouraged to eat at a restaurant.

5. Extra Cash. How to clean before the holidays, a bunch of stuff you do not really need or use. Take-over for sale, or eBay or Craigslist ads. Make a seasonal part-time to cover the extra costs. Or, to give a business mission or second-hand and save the documentation for the fees. Sometimes the mental clean out, cleaning that accompanies mostmore valuable than money.

6. Green Tree. Get a tree crop. Yes, it will cost more, but if you have a place in your garden, or find someone to buy it is to plant after the holidays, it will be double-green!

7. Family gift cards. For older children, can tag gift card valued at clothing stores and department stores for popular games and the like. If you wait until that sad week after Christmas and all, you can find all the greatOffers and have a wonderful post-Christmas shopping spree. This helps to boost sagging spirits. Combined with some restaurant gift cards you receive and you can have a nice day out and save a lot of money.

8. Program nights. Old friends are going to play all night with family and friends. This strengthens the bonds of friendship and family are pleased to offer inexpensive and fun events as possible and give the structure, the hope and intention thatfirst quarter of the year, often financially and emotionally stressful times a year. Make it a point not to spend much time or money on these events - the goal is to have fun without having to have a lot of money for this!

9. Plan for next year. The week between Christmas and New Year is a good time to reflect on the past few years and some goals for next year. Spend time on the blog as a simple saving of dollars to get more ideas frugalityand environmental awareness. Take a sheet of white paper and list 10 things I would do next year. Think of these categories: personnel, finances, family, environment, faith, career, fitness, training and development.

The key to these suggestions is a plan for you! Get the laptop and go!

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