Wonder if your faucets at home are slowly leaking water when you’re away? One of the simplest ways to check is to leave a coffee cup under the faucet when you’re gone. When you get home, you can see how much water has dripped into the cup. No water, no leak! Why a cup? Because you can use that measurement and the amount of time it took to fill up to calculate how much H2O your quietly leaking faucet is wasting daily, weekly, etc. Use the internet to look up simple DIY fixes that can help you stop leaks, saving water and money.

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Have some overripe bananas? When bananas are beyond the point of being edible, don’t toss them into the compost. Instead, mash them up, add a few tablespoons of sugar with a little bit of olive oil and mix. Rub the mixture all over your body to exfoliate dead skin and moisturize; the bananas and olive oil are incredibly beneficial in quenching dry skin, and the sugar aids exfoliation. Rinse away in the shower to reveal soft, radiant skin.

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When it’s time to replace the headlights in your car, why not give it a green upgrade with your lighting choice? Cars typically come with energy-hogging halogen bulbs for illumination, which draw power from your car’s battery. New LED headlights -- which are ultra-bright and last an extremely long time, just like LED lightbulbs for home lamps -- use less energy. On average, LEDs use just one-third of the energy demanded by halogen bulbs. While most cars are designed to accept halogen bulbs, LED kits are available to easily retrofit your car’s headlights for the new technology.

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