Do you want to help shelter dogs, but don’t have the time or room in your life to adopt one yet? Here’s the next best thing you can do: Become a dog’s Uber driver! Local animal shelters are often in need of someone to transport dogs to other shelters or rescue facilities, or for a veterinarian appointment. You’ll help the shelter by being a driver, and you’ll get to spend some quality time with an adoptable pooch. Just reach out to your local shelter and offer your driving skills to help them out.

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Dry cleaning a suit can be expensive if done on a regular basis. To save money (and make fewer trips to the dry cleaner), try this trick to “freshen” your suit. Fill a small spray bottle with the cheapest unflavored vodka you can find. Then spritz away on the inside and outside of the suit on a mist setting. The vodka does two things: It deodorizes the suit and it dissipates quickly without harming the fabric. Instead of masking odors with fragrance, you’re neutralizing them naturally.

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When shopping for trash bags, consider trying new green bags that are totally degradable under landfill conditions. These new bags use something called “life-cycle plastics” that are just as durable as regular plastic trash bags, except they have one modification to accelerate their aging (or degrading). Under a landfill condition, the bags quickly return to organic matter and become a food source for microorganisms. You can find these bags now at all major home improvement stores, and they come in a wide variety of sizes.

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