December
green your eve.
It’s New Year’s Eve and you probably have big plans to go out. Save yourself the trouble of finding a designated driver (or worse yet : a cab) and take public transportation to wherever the night has you headed. Taking a bus or a train will save you money on parking and will guarantee you ……
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greener. period.
Ladies, let’s get real about something for a second: women, on average, experience a lifetime menstruation span of 41 years, so it’s estimated that 2 billion sanitary pads and 7 billion tampons are dumped into the North American environment each year. More than 170,000 tampon applicators were collected along U.S. coastal areas between 1998 ……
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gift shift.
Regifting gets a bad rap, but it can be good. If you received a few ill-suited presents over the holidays, why not see if someone else might appreciate them more. To battle the post-holiday blues, host a regifting party and give it a good wrap.
Photo: Kelvin Kay
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gold, frankincense and… cardboard?
If you celebrate Christmas, chances are there’s more cardboard under the tree than anything else once the wrapping comes off. Make the most of all those boxes by storing them someplace dry and out of the way (away from the furnace, fireplace, radiator or water heater, please) until spring. Cardboard is an awesome material ……
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nice to re-greet you!
The holidays are over, but before you toss all of those non-photo Holiday cards into the recycling bin, consider keeping the ones you love the look of for reusing next year. It’s simple: Cut a piece of paper to fit the inside part of the card and glue or double-sided tape stick it ……
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peace out, lights.
Santa came – now play this game: turn off your outdoor holiday lights early. Save energy by enjoying holiday lights indoors tonight. Chances are good that most people will be in their homes enjoying the holiday rather than looking at your lights, anyway. Have a green, safe holiday!
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leftover, leftover…
…send YOU right over (We were trying to do a variation of “Red Rover” from childhood… did it work? Back to work!). For lots of you, today is Christmas Eve! And we hope you are having a merry one, enjoying some time off and some good grub. Just one thing you may (or may ……
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you can tune a piano…
You’ve probably already heard of dolphin safe tuna, and chances are that the cans keeping time in your cupboard wear the dolphin safe logo, but do you know why? In a nutshell, dolphins like tuna even more than we do, so dolphins can often be found swimming with schools of tuna. When the ……
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beloved bumbershoot.
As soon as the first raindrop hits the pavement in any big city, vendors magically appear to sell umbrellas for almost pennies. The sad fact is that hundreds of these umbrellas will bite the dust very quickly (A moment of silence for our fallen soldiers). Yes, what sounds like a money saver at ……
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read our lips.
We know our readers are sexy, but we also know you’re smart, so we suspect you may have read a few books over the holidays. Or maybe you got some for presents, read them, and want to spread the word. Rather than keep the pages on your shelf, why not give others a chance to ……
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