Three steps to save money and save the world...
1) Use fewer paper napkins--everywhere. There's no need to grab a huge stack of napkins from the concession stand when you know you'll only use one or two. Each American consumes an average of 2,200 standard two-ply napkins per year, or the equivalent of just over six of these napkins a day. If everyone in the United States used an average of one fewer napkin a day, more than a billion pounds of napkins could be saved from landfills each year. A stack of napkins this size could fill the entire Empire State Building.
2) Buy rechargeable batteries. You'll save money over the long term. A single rechargeable battery can replace up to one thousand single-use alkaline batteries over its lifetime. Americans throw out approximately 179,000 tons of batteries per year.
3) Drink tap water when dining out. You can save as much as $7 for a bottle of water, and it may be safer to drink. Tap water is more strictly regulated than bottled water. If everyone drank tap instead of bottled water in the United States, it would save about $8 billion-- about as much as the United States spends each year in drought response. It also would help prevent palstic waste. Sixty million water bottles are tossed each day in the United States.
Hope these hints are helpful. The come from "the green book" .Buy the greenbook and go to www.readthegreenbook.com.
Personal note:
Shopping last week: Food Lion total before savings- $19.22 in store savings-$6.10 total grocery bill-$13.12
Bilo's total before savings-76.82 in store savings-14.08 coupons-7.60 total grocery bill-$54.07
Savings before last week $192.42
Savings last week $ 27.78
Savings year to date $220.20
Happy savings!!! and remember..save a penny save the world!!!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
In My Own Words...
CAN WE BE HEALED????
A great sickness has swept across our beloved land my freinds. We've become a nation of hearers not thinkers. We have become complacent and we have "settled" for something less than what our forefathers put forth as our certain inalienable rights. And in this time of letting go of reason itself we have lost our way. And the ones leading us back to the path through the forest of indecision, inactivity and the passing off of pretty words for true beliefs, lead us even further into the dark forest.
We have in this election year, a chance to change direction, to pull ourself out of the quagmire of a war started "just to be doing something" it now seems ..looking back in hindsight. When the towers in New York went down we felt a certain sense of outrage and loss. That was a very understandable emotion. But our course of action was as if, the town bully punched our sister, so we in turn punch the town bullies distant cousin, once removed. And this at the cost of the lives of our young men. For what, to try to bring democracy to a land that has no innate desire of it? Peace must be wanted, craved, needed even. The people of Iraq have shown little inclination towards anything like that.
And our candidates, for president, what a lot this is. Would any one dare utter a single sentence that didnt follow party lines and thinking.? Do any have a thought of thier own?
Is there a single good idea among the lot of them? Oh I've heard a snitch of a genuine idea here, a glimpse of one there. But by and large, it's the same almost robotic drivel we've heard so many times before. And the problem with it is this. On the morning after the grand inauguration of our next leader of our beloved country, no matter how much fire and zest we have supported our candidate with, we will wake up to ... high gas prices, crime in the streets, rising prices at the grocery, a health care system so flawed it is almost beyond fixing, social security in jeopardy, the diserespect and inward loathing of almost every non english speaking nation in the world..and even some that do speak english, and like the bear who slept through Christmas wonder...what happened? Will we see real change? We can only hope. Do i doubt we'll see true change? Yes... i do. Come on Obama, Hillary, McCain....Mitt. Prove me wrong... I dare you .
I've used a lot of space here promoting the ideas of others. For a change...this is me... my forum.. my stump. Tomorrow I'll be at my patriotic best again. But just for today...let me whine......
Happy Savings!!!!!
A great sickness has swept across our beloved land my freinds. We've become a nation of hearers not thinkers. We have become complacent and we have "settled" for something less than what our forefathers put forth as our certain inalienable rights. And in this time of letting go of reason itself we have lost our way. And the ones leading us back to the path through the forest of indecision, inactivity and the passing off of pretty words for true beliefs, lead us even further into the dark forest.
We have in this election year, a chance to change direction, to pull ourself out of the quagmire of a war started "just to be doing something" it now seems ..looking back in hindsight. When the towers in New York went down we felt a certain sense of outrage and loss. That was a very understandable emotion. But our course of action was as if, the town bully punched our sister, so we in turn punch the town bullies distant cousin, once removed. And this at the cost of the lives of our young men. For what, to try to bring democracy to a land that has no innate desire of it? Peace must be wanted, craved, needed even. The people of Iraq have shown little inclination towards anything like that.
And our candidates, for president, what a lot this is. Would any one dare utter a single sentence that didnt follow party lines and thinking.? Do any have a thought of thier own?
Is there a single good idea among the lot of them? Oh I've heard a snitch of a genuine idea here, a glimpse of one there. But by and large, it's the same almost robotic drivel we've heard so many times before. And the problem with it is this. On the morning after the grand inauguration of our next leader of our beloved country, no matter how much fire and zest we have supported our candidate with, we will wake up to ... high gas prices, crime in the streets, rising prices at the grocery, a health care system so flawed it is almost beyond fixing, social security in jeopardy, the diserespect and inward loathing of almost every non english speaking nation in the world..and even some that do speak english, and like the bear who slept through Christmas wonder...what happened? Will we see real change? We can only hope. Do i doubt we'll see true change? Yes... i do. Come on Obama, Hillary, McCain....Mitt. Prove me wrong... I dare you .
I've used a lot of space here promoting the ideas of others. For a change...this is me... my forum.. my stump. Tomorrow I'll be at my patriotic best again. But just for today...let me whine......
Happy Savings!!!!!
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