Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … shower curtains?
We had shower curtain rings a few weeks ago but what about the curtains themselves?
Our shower curtain is getting a bit passed it - it’s torn at some of the ring points, there is something that looks like hair dye along the bottom (even though neither of us dye our hair but whatever, it won’t […]
10 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, household, items by louisa
Friday, July 27th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … saucepan lids?
We’ve had an email from Sue, asking:
What can I do with spare saucepan lids? I’ve just cleaned out my cupboard and I’ve got loads of old ones that don’t match any of my current pans - some of them are probably older than my teenage children!
Well, firstly Sue, you can give them to me! […]
4 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen by louisa
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … brown paper?
As I might have mentioned before, John and I write a geeky webcomic together and we sell geeky t-shirts based on jokes from the strip. We decided we’d only sell the tshirts if we could do it right and were lucky enough to find a printing company with a good ethical & environmental policy. […]
17 Comments » - Posted in household, items, office, packaging by louisa
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … old books?
I’ve been thinking about doing a post on books for a while but the very, very obvious answer for me is “charity shops”. I buy a lot of books from charity shops and give away ones I’m done with but we’ve got a big stack of books that aren’t really suitable for that route […]
15 Comments » - Posted in household, items, office by louisa
Friday, July 20th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … garlic?
We’ve had an email from Jon Arkin:
I bought a big net of garlic from the market at the weekend because it was going cheap. I now know why, half of them have started sprouting.
I’m going to try to use as many as I can but will have to compost the rest - or are […]
