Buying vintage clothes, bags and shoes is a great way to create personal style and reuse something at the same time. But sometimes vintage clothes can smell like, well, vintage clothes. To get rid of musky odors for items that are hard to wash, reach for your cat's must-have item: kitty litter. The same activated charcoal in kitty litter that absorbs odor can eliminate smells from your vintage finds, too. For bags and luggage, just dump a few cups inside, close it up and let it sit for a week or so. For clothes, just fill a garbage bag with clothes and sprinkle kitty litter inside. Seal it up for a week to give everything a fresh smell.

When shopping for a new car, there are lots of options to consider when finding the most fuel-efficient vehicle. One of those choices is the exterior color of your car. A study by the Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division looked at two identical cars in different colors. One was a lighter silver shade, and the other one was black. When sitting in the hot sun, the lighter car used 13 percent less energy to cool down in comparison to the black vehicle. Overall, a lighter color car -- silver or white -- saves on average about 2 percent in gas and helps extend the life of your battery, too.

We all know that using deicing salt on sidewalks and driveways helps melt winter's mess and make these surfaces safer to walk and drive on, but it comes at a price. Sodium chloride, when it melts the ice, turns into a liquid mixture that ends up in our rivers, creeks, lakes and other waterways. This salt can change aquatic habitats and create dead zones, killing fish and amphibians. While there is no real eco-friendly solution to deicing salt, what you can do is use less of it. Try mixing salt with sand, and spread that 50-50 mixture instead. It will help melt the ice, and the sand will provide traction where you need it.