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Green Tip Suggestion:
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Anonymous
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Instead of using those Febreeze type scents, use an empty cleaned out spray bottle, fill with vodka (alcohol) and essential oils of your choice (I use Neroli and Sweet Orange for example) shake together to mix and spray to scent the room.
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Marquis Crumpton
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To get rid of ants, spray them with pure lavender oil where the ants are prone to enter your house
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Jill Jacoby
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Use salt to kill fleas on carpets, upholstery, etc. (I have cracks between the floorboards in my 1920's pine floor) I sprinkle on the floors I want to use it on and leave it while I vacuum the rest of the house or overnight and then vacuum it up. It's amazing and easy if you get a flea outbreak in your house!
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Anonymous
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Use cloth diapers on your babies except when you leave the house or overnight. Buy and use a water filter instead of buying filtered water. Grind your own grain instead of buying flour, it's so much healthy for you. Buy in bulk for the things you use most often. Wash and reuse your freezer bags that don't have holes in them. Plant herbs/ flowers/ trees that have a medicinal/ food purpose as well as looking pretty. Use vinegar, cooking oil, and baking soda to accomplish most of your cleaning and only buy other types of cleaners when the benefits are better. Learn to sew and fix your old clothes and make your own new ones. Grow a vegetable garden. Keep your house cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer to save money on your energy bill. Make your own pet foods. If you're really desperate you can make your own 'toilet paper' by cutting an old t-shirt into pieces and reusing them after washing with very hot water and vinegar.
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Cindy Gould
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To help prevent fleas mix 3/4 water to 1/4 vodka (alcohol) in a spray bottle and add essential oils of lemongrass and patchouli, mist your dog. You can also add the essential oils to arrowroot powder to sprinkle around the bedding. |
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Anonymous
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If you don't flush after using the toilet, you will be able to save water.
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Elana Garcia
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Instead of use new paper for the photocopy machine, I reuse the two faces of the paper or reuse the bad ones.
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Being retired, I try to save money where rever I can and that helps being green. My kids bring home all the non "Hippa" type fax paper from their jobs, which I use for printing my coupons, recipes and for notes. The extra leftover bits go to our recycle program.
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