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The below info is helpful energy saving tips when moving into a new house or for your exiciting home.

If you are reading this, you are probably thinking about moving, have started moving or want to move. If this is the case you certainly are well aware of how much so-called junk you have piled up over your lifetime. We want to help you make your moving experience more fruitful, so here are some tips for reusing that so-called junk.

Be Thrifty! Never Say Trash
And…Sharing is Caring

We’ve told you the myriad ways you can reuse your cardboard moving boxes. Anything is better than sending them to the dump. Everyone knows one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. You can be thrifty and turn your so-called junk into a useful product by “recycling” it one way or another.

• If the stuff is piling up, maybe it’s time for a yard sale. Especially if you are about to move, you will find zillions of trinkets and gadgets that are waiting for the right home where they will be used and loved. It is tempting just to chuck them in the garbage, but it would feel a lot better to put them all to good use. What’s more you can use your cardboard moving boxes to help organize the yard sale.

• One of your neighbors could probably use that old Singer’s sewing machine that’s collecting dust in the back of the garage. She loves to sew and her machine hit a snag. Why don’t you lend it to her? Or how about neighbor down the street. You past him the other day and saw him painting his house with a 2 inch paint brush. Maybe he could use your Black and Decker automatic paint spreader.

You probably have more appliances that you don’t use than neighbors that you know on a first name basis. The point is, why not create a community appliance sharing project. You’ll save money, stretch scarce storage space and promote good will. Maybe you will make a few friends in the process.

• Get artistic. You can take failing appliances and other stuff of questionable value and make interesting art projects with them. If you ever walk down South St. in Philadelphia you will see that the city allowed a particularly enterprising artist to create literally acres of fantastic, beautiful art, all out of stuff that would usually end up in the landfill. Perhaps instead of landfills, we should have gigantic art galleries.

• If all else fails, donate your stuff to the local non-profit thrift shop. Chances are someone will buy what you don’t want. I always shop at stores like these and I always find a great deal. What’s more these thrift shops like the Salvation Army, Good Will and Purple Heart do great work to help the poor.
A friend of mine from Philadelphia used to work at a thrift store. He said that the money raised helped people feed and clothe entire families. “Doing something as simple as donating a old toaster oven can save somone’s life,” he said. top of page
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