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How being green saves you money

By Christina Clark

After reading the first installment of Being Green in a Tight Economy over at Eco Child's Play I felt like there were a few additional points that could be made about how sometimes, making green choices are the best things you can do financially as well.

I think the most important thing you can do is to change the way you think. Apply that concept to as many things as you can whether it is packing lunches, restocking school supplies or getting ready for Halloween.

Buy in bulk - sometimes. One three liter bottle of olive oil uses less plastic than three one liter bottles. A gallon of glass cleaner to refill your spray bottle is great. But you have to be careful with this as well. One jumbo pack of individually prepackaged snacks can have quite a lot of packaging involved.

Trade and share. Instead of buying a new widget, see if anyone you know has one you can borrow. I have some friends who recently purchased a home and were in great need of a lawn mower and weed eater. We had upgraded from an electric to a gas weed eater and were happy to loan them our electric one indefinitely. If they had the skills to tune up our old push mower we would've given them the same offer on that. It's amazing what people have in garages and attics and basements.

Use kitchen towels and cloth napkins instead of paper towels and paper napkins. We use towels for everything from drying hands and dishes to cleaning off the electric grill and wiping up spills. There are a few that were made for me that I keep mostly for drying hands and dishes but most of the towels are fair game for just about any kind of messy job.

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