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Repurposing and Reusing Infant Toys
We’ve finally gotten to that stage where most of the infant toys are not being used any longer – sure we’ll still shake our sillies out or start a marching band with the shakers or the rattles, but it’s pretty much time to go for the rest of it. Except that I hate the idea of throwing out all this stuff! I’ll donate some of it, but I always like to have some toys around for all ages whether for future fosters or just entertaining when we have friends with kids over. Rather than just putting them all in storage and wasting lots of money on new toys – I’ve…
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Living Waste Free: Reusing Our Plastic for Plastic Free July
So I’m not by any means plastic free yet but I do try to do some waste reduction – we do the easy stuff or what we can with having three so little. Simple things like get a CSA every year to reduce our packaged food, use reusable cups/shopping bags when we go shopping and we try to reuse the packaging we do get as much as possible. Not much, but its all about baby steps right!? So in honor of plastic free July and in trying to keep a few things out of the landfills/oceans I thought I would share a couple of our favorite recycled toys! The…