Recycle Christmas Cards Into Christmas Gifts

If you are anything like my family, you have a stack of Christmas cards from previous years sitting around and collecting dust and not to mention taking up space. Well instead of throwing them out or leaving them to continue to waste space, you can make gifts out of them (which works great for kids to hand out as gifts too)!

Here are several ideas from BHG:

1. Christmas Card Trees

2. Christmas Card Blocks 

3. Christmas Card Pinecone Ornament

4. Framed Christmas Card Silhouettes

5. Christmas Card Bird Decoration For Gift Bags

6. Christmas Gift Card Tags

7. Christmas Card Candle Holder  

Apple Recycling Program

A topic that is important to me and that I have done research on is recycling. One of the companies that I have researched and was impressed with was Apple.

Apples recycling starts in the design stage, where they use more compact and recyclable packaging for their products and they also make some of their products from recycled materials. For example the  built in battery in there products make them last longer than ordinary computer battery which can be charged only 200-300 times compared to the  Mac book pro line up can be charged up to 1000 times. The Mac book pro battery can last up to five years where a normal battery  which would need to be replaced 2-3 times. That saves you money, and it helps produce less waste, and increases the lifespan of your mac book pro. Once the usefulness of your apple product is expired if you send it back to them they will recycle it properly for you at no charge.

To help cut down on waste in the landfills, Apple has setup recycling programs in colleges, cities and countries where their products are sold. Their goal was to achieve high a recycling  rate and that was successfully achieved.  Now their goal is to maintain what they achieved.  All of Apples E-waste collected, is recycled in the region where it was collected. Nothing is shipped overseas for recycling or disposal    

Apple like many other companies have started recycling programs to help reduce their carbon footprints. With this positive peer pressure, other companies who didn't even recycle can now be found recycling.  Our society should've been this conscience of this problem years ago but I suppose its better late than never. 

different ways to go green and save money

Here are some different ways to go green and they are easy and not to mention there is a huge plus side-they help you save money!  

1. Turn the lights of when you leave the room 

2. Wash laundry in cold water
3. Turn off your computer completely at night
4. Pay as many bills as you can online
5. Switch all your lights to florescent light bulbs
6. Unplug Cell phone charger
7. Turn off water while brushing your teeth 
8. Take a shower under 10 minutes
9. Collect water when it rains to water your plants
10. Stop using bottled water and switch to a water purify
11. Start using a clothes line and air dry your clothes it also keeps your clothes colors and it save you money.....and people wonder why all these years why we did it.
12. Use cruise control it saves up to 15% gas mileage