SAVE $60: Use Online Photo-Sharing to show off your holiday photos
Use an online photo-sharing site to show-off your holiday pics to friends and family instead of printing them out. You could save up to $60 per year or more if you take an average of 30 pictures per month. In addition, you’ll also save the paper, chemical inks and dyes, and energy required to print [...]
Use an online photo-sharing site to show-off your holiday pics to friends and family instead of printing them out. You could save up to $60 per year or more if you take an average of 30 pictures per month. In addition, you’ll also save the paper, chemical inks and dyes, and energy required to print [...]
SAVE $50: Make your own card
Make your own card. Use your own words to tell your friend or loved one what they really mean to you instead of letting a store-bought card say it all. You can make your own card with an online card creation program. If you have the time, you might break out the scrap-booking kit and [...]
Make your own card. Use your own words to tell your friend or loved one what they really mean to you instead of letting a store-bought card say it all. You can make your own card with an online card creation program. If you have the time, you might break out the scrap-booking kit and [...]
LIGHT BRIGHT
Buy LED miniature holiday lights instead of the incandescent variety. After the initial price difference (LED lights cost about $5-$10 more per 100-light string), save $3.50 per holiday season on energy costs and $50 on replacement light strands over their 20 year lifetime. LED lights use about 10% of the energy consumed by incandescent lights. [...]
Buy LED miniature holiday lights instead of the incandescent variety. After the initial price difference (LED lights cost about $5-$10 more per 100-light string), save $3.50 per holiday season on energy costs and $50 on replacement light strands over their 20 year lifetime. LED lights use about 10% of the energy consumed by incandescent lights. [...]
DOMESTIC VS IMPORTED
If you have the option, buy from a nearby winery or microbrewery.
If you have the option, buy from a nearby winery or microbrewery.
TURKEY WINNER
SAVE $10 Unless you’re serving an army, or are planning to repurpose the leftovers, buy a small turkey (10 lbs) instead of an XXL turkey (20 lbs). Save up to $10 or more per year. Raising smaller turkeys consumes less resources in terms of food, land and water, produces less waste, and requires less energy [...]
SAVE $10 Unless you’re serving an army, or are planning to repurpose the leftovers, buy a small turkey (10 lbs) instead of an XXL turkey (20 lbs). Save up to $10 or more per year. Raising smaller turkeys consumes less resources in terms of food, land and water, produces less waste, and requires less energy [...]
CRAFT SERVICE
SAVE $50 For any gift your child has to give, skip the expense of buying stuff and select a homemade craft that your child can help create. Save up to $50 or more compared to a conventional gift. Conserve the resources used to manufacture a new product by choosing to make a craft out of [...]
SAVE $50 For any gift your child has to give, skip the expense of buying stuff and select a homemade craft that your child can help create. Save up to $50 or more compared to a conventional gift. Conserve the resources used to manufacture a new product by choosing to make a craft out of [...]
PASS UP THE PLASTIC
SAVE $20 Buy natural decorations like dried corn, gourds, pumpkins, and maple leaves instead of disposable plastic decorations. Save up to $20 or more per year. Save the Planet: Natural decorations are renewable resources, whereas most manufactured decorations are made from plastic—which is produced from petroleum. Disposable decorations inevitably end up as garbage after the [...]
SAVE $20 Buy natural decorations like dried corn, gourds, pumpkins, and maple leaves instead of disposable plastic decorations. Save up to $20 or more per year. Save the Planet: Natural decorations are renewable resources, whereas most manufactured decorations are made from plastic—which is produced from petroleum. Disposable decorations inevitably end up as garbage after the [...]
WATERING HOLE
SAVE $20 Whether you’re at an amusement park, ballgame, or county fair, don’t waste money on overpriced bottles of water. Instead, bring your own bottle and refill it at the drinking fountains. Save up to $20 or more for a family of four per event. Reduce bottle waste and conserve the fossil fuel resources used [...]
SAVE $20 Whether you’re at an amusement park, ballgame, or county fair, don’t waste money on overpriced bottles of water. Instead, bring your own bottle and refill it at the drinking fountains. Save up to $20 or more for a family of four per event. Reduce bottle waste and conserve the fossil fuel resources used [...]
JOIN THE CLUB
SAVE $300 For the cost of two or three general admission tickets to a museum, you can become a member and get unlimited family admission for the entire year. Most museums display traveling exhibits, so you can see something new each time you visit. Save up to $300 per year or more compared to buying [...]
SAVE $300 For the cost of two or three general admission tickets to a museum, you can become a member and get unlimited family admission for the entire year. Most museums display traveling exhibits, so you can see something new each time you visit. Save up to $300 per year or more compared to buying [...]
A FINE VINTAGE
SAVE $100 Instead of wrapping up a brand new item, why not find a fashionable antique or used item of equally high quality? Save up to $100 or more. Reusing things that other people have discarded keeps them out of the waste stream. It also saves resources on the manufacturing side, as fewer new products [...]
SAVE $100 Instead of wrapping up a brand new item, why not find a fashionable antique or used item of equally high quality? Save up to $100 or more. Reusing things that other people have discarded keeps them out of the waste stream. It also saves resources on the manufacturing side, as fewer new products [...]