8/3/10

If you live in a community where people raise their own chickens and sell the fresh eggs, consider saving your egg cartons, both cardboard and Styrofoam, and giving your collection to them. They'll gladly recycle them by using them to store fresh eggs. Who knows? Maybe they'll even give you a dozen free eggs for the generous gift.

8/2/10

Here's an easy upcycling idea: Recycle a paint stirrer into a plant marker for the garden. Use a permanent marker to write the name of the plant at the top of the paint stirrer and stick it in the ground by the plant.

8/1/10

Stale loaves of bread, rolls and pastries can be revived quickly with just water and the oven. Spray water on the outside of your bread and place them inside a 350-degree prebaked oven for several minutes. Rolls will crisp up in just a few minutes; a whole loaf of bread will be bakery-fresh in about 20.