Packages in the mail are always great to get even if you bought them yourself. However, it’s hard to decide what to do with the packing material that they come in.
Bubble wrap isn’t so bad, you can roll it up and reuse it to pack holiday decorations, moving, or simply sit and pop the bubbles–come on, we’ve all done it! But those pesky plastic peanuts are another thing. They reproduce and cling to everything, like the Star Trek Trebles! So, if you want to go green and unclutter your home, all is not lost.
Check with the UPS Store in your area, usually one of the stores is designated to accept and recycle these peanuts. Markdown Mom found another site for recycling your peanuts at The Plastic Loose Fill Council.
Or Call The Peanut Hotline 1-800-828-2214.
It’s A Good Thing!
answered the call of bundling our small ones off to daycare with disposable paper diapers. It is with mixed emotions that parents face this choice between being environmentally correct, and the requirement of providing disposable diapers that most daycare providers impose. 
You can get the 3 R’s at School: Recycle, Reuse, and Reduced! That’s what you will find at local college and university surplus property sales. Students, entrepreneurs, seniors, and parents line up early to get their hands on good working computers for dirt cheap. 
going for $10-$50 each. Since these computers have been in operation at these bastions of higher education, they have been kept in top notch condition because of service agreements with the vendors. That takes the guess work out 
of whether or not you will get a lemon for these ridiculously low prices. 
One of the problems of our modern society is that we have become a throwaway culture and like with any change in our habitats many items are simply tossed. 
It’s nice to have the new computer printers that can do all kinds of work like print photos, word processing, fax, copying, and scanning. But the most expensive purchase is not the printer oddly enough, but ink refills. MDM once had a conversation with another shopper who made the observation that it was more economical to buy a new printer on markdown than it was to buy refills for his current printer. Now there are several ways to combat the expense of constantly replacing ink cartridges, some better than others:
Last July, MDM showed you step-by-step how to save on air freshners especially ones with fans by recycling the bottle and filling it with your choice of liquid potpourri at a fraction of the cost. The more difficult matter was to find replacement wicks since the original ones would only last for one refill. MDM has found two sources for these wicks: 
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