Ingenious Insight By Karen

Think twice before throwing anything away.  First think if you could possibly use it in any way for something else.  I save a lot of stuff for crafts.  (baby bottle rings (the part that holds the nipple-will become christmas ornament this year), laundry det. scoops, milk jugs, pieces of broken toys, etc.)  Then look to see if you can recycle it!  Most stuff is labeled or marked with the recycle symbol.  I starting doing this and realized that I throw out a LOT of stuff that I could be recycling…  Old wipes containers, fast food containers, bottles from the bathroom, old sippy cups/bottles, empty tubes of medicine (diaper rash cream), and on and on.  We normally recycle, but we were just oblivious to all the other stuff we were throwing away!  It’s amazing how much less trash you could have!  I’m thinking about starting a compost pile, tho I don’t know where I’d put it, because a lot of the stuff in our trash now is old food/scraps.