Fave 5 links

Here are 5 links for your weekend reading. Some about green living, some about frugal living, all about living the simple life.      Do you really need to turn the compost heap?   {A Self Sufficient Life}   Does your family rely on irregular income? Learn how to manage your money, no matter how you get paid.   [...]

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One Small Step: Spray bottle dish soap

One Small Step is one simple idea (delivered to you on Fridays here at repurposeful) that can make a big impact on your family, your budget or the environment (or all three!).     Want to stretch the use of your dish soap? Looking to reuse an empty spray bottle? I have your answers.   Fill an empty [...]

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Make your own reusable bags from repurposed clothing

If you’re not yet on the reusable bag bandwagon, you should be. Plastic bag litter creates immeasurable harm to the environment. And don’t think you’re off the hook because you recycle plastic bags. Since it costs more to recycle a bag than it does to produce a new plastic bag, plastic bags typically are “downcycled” into [...]

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Product Spotlight: Chopstick art

Have you ever thought about what happens to the disposable chopsticks after a meal at your favorite noodle house? Artist Bryan Parks thought about it after an extended stay in China revealed that 25 million trees and bamboo plants are used to create the billions of chopsticks manufactured in China every year. As a result, Bryan [...]

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Repurposing repeat offendors: Plastic fruit containers

Do you have a list of repeat offendors? What I’m talking about is packaging waste that keeps reappearing in your house. Every time you turn around, you find yourself with another [blank] to throw in the recycle bin, or worse, you can’t recycle it! My [blank] is plastic fruit containers. My kids love strawberries and blueberries, [...]

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Petition for National Thrift Store Month

The fantastic women over at The Thrifty Chicks are hard at work trying to give thrift store shopping the attention it deserves by creating a National Thrift Store Month. Since thrifting is the ultimate in repurposing, repurposeful strongly supports this endeavor… won’t you? To learn more, visit The Thrifty Chicks. Or, simply click on over to their Facebook petition and sign [...]

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When is “green” too much of a good thing?

Living a more environmentally sound life is a wonderful thing. It benefits you, your family, your neighbors and helps put a few more tokens in the machine, so to speak, to keep this planet running. But, is there a downside to going green? On a larger scale, the benefits of repurposing and reusing certainly come out [...]

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Fave 5 Links

Here are five of my favorite posts from this past week: Crafting a Green World tells us how to Get Sewing and Save Some Trees   Nature Moms Blog gives a review on diapering options with The Green Diaper Smackdown along with an awesome cloth diaper giveaway!   Eco Child’s Play puts a spin on the I [...]

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One Small Step: Reuse a tissue box

In many parts of the world right now, cold and flu season is in full swing. Unfortunately, that also means that the tissues (Kleenex) are flying. I would guess that as a family of four, we go through a box of tissues every few days during the winter. A whole lot of tissues = a whole [...]

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Rainy day fun: Repurposing with your kids

The next time you have a rainy (or really cold) day and you’re trying desperately to tolerate entertain your children, dig through your recycle bin.  Most likely, you have the perfect makings for a fun kids’ activity, art project or game. Since children are designed to enjoy the simple things in life, a toilet paper tube could occupy them for [...]

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