10/17/10

Ask your friends, family and neighbors to dig through their junk drawers at home to see if they'll give you their old eyeglasses. Bring them to any Lenscrafters store and donate them for their OneSight program. The store takes old eyewear, repairs and refurbishes them, and uses them to give people corrective eyewear all over the world who otherwise could not afford eyeglasses.

10/16/10

Wine lovers, listen up. Save up all those corks from your bottles of chardonnay and use them for something good. ReCORK by Amorim wants your corks so they can be recycled into new footwear. Through its partnership with footwear manufacturer, SOLE, the ReCORK program will make good use of your 100 percent natural and recyclable old wine corks. Visit recork.org to find a drop-off location near you.

10/15/10

When drying towels and bedding, throw in two tennis balls; the balls will help fluff the towels and bedding to speed up drying. This will keep them softer and less wrinkly. It also saves money because you won't need to invest in fabric softener sheets.