New Year’s Day Tips To Handle Leftovers

Everyone gains a pound or two during the holiday season, as food is forever abundant. There is one more holiday left, one last party to prepare for: New Year’s Eve. This year, though, I am vowing to keep it light and simple and welcome the year by cost-cutting and reducing waste.
For one thing, I’m [...]

Things To Do With Gift Wrappers Post-Holiday

You’ve opened and unwrapped your gifts. You’ve collected all of the wrappers for recycling, as we’ve suggested. So what do you actually do with them after the holidays? We’ve got some nifty suggestions below:
Use them as book covers. If you have old books lying around, use the gift wrappers to cover and protect it. [...]

Celebrating a Green Christmas

With all the merrymaking and stress combined, it would be so easy to forget to practice green living. But we all know, we have to do our very best. This lifestyle doesn’t have to pause because it’s the holidays.
Below are some tips to observe green living this Christmas:
1. Decorate using homemade Christmas ornaments. This could [...]

Holiday Safety Tips…Protect Your Home, Protect The Earth

For all the fun and festivities we are going to enjoy and celebrate this holiday season, let’s not forgot to keep everything safe. Here are a few reminders for doing that:

Make sure that holiday decorations, the electrical ones especially, are in good working order. Have the wires fixed if they are not.
Pick decors that are [...]

Have A Green Thanksgiving!

Of all the holidays to celebrate, Thanksgiving seems to be the one without so many frills that may be environmentally harmful. Except for all the food, and the clean-up that goes with it, Thanksgiving is all about families gathering together and less about the commercial aspect of it. Which means, there are no decorations to [...]