Daniel is sharing tips for making your Black Friday shopping trip a little “greener”. Almost prepared with your plan for Black Friday shopping, but wonder what you can do to green your experience this year? These tips will help you lessen your carbon impact on the environment while allowing you to come home with theRead More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green in Your Garage
The garage may be one place you don’t think of going green in, but it is one place you should definitely consider. With all the strange mesh-mash of stuff, along with anything that “doesn’t belong in the house”, your garage can often become a catch-all for chemicals, dirty things and storage. Let’s look at waysRead More
10 Easy Ways to Recycle Eggshells
Emily is sharing tips for reusing eggshells. To most people eggshells are useless things that are thrown away, but to the recycler or homesteader eggshells are natures best kept secret and useful for tons of things. For any tips related to human or animal consumption you do need to make sure the egg shells areRead More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green in Your Living Room
The place where you and your family spend the most time other than your kitchen is most likely your living room or family room. This means it is very important to make this your “green center” to make sure you and your family have the best opportunity to enjoy the benefits of going green. HereRead More
20 Frugal Uses for Honey
Who doesn’t like a little honey every now and then? It is so sweet and simple, and perfect when added to toast, tea, or your peanut butter sandwich. But did you know that honey has many other valuable uses as well? It sure does! In fact honey can be used in all sorts of waysRead More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green in Your Child’s Room & Nursery
Perhaps one place we don’t always think about to go green is our children’s bedrooms and nursery. The kitchen, bathroom and maybe our own rooms are easy, but what about where our little ones play and lay their head? Going green in your child’s bedroom is not as complicated as you think and may evenRead More
Curbside Crafts: Repurposed Headboard Yard Sign
What do you do when you are driving down the road and see an old headboard on the curb? You stop and pick it up of course! If you are a regular thrifter or curb collector, you may have noticed how often old wooden headboards are in the offerings. Up until now you may haveRead More
How To Green Your Beauty Routine
You are probably on the eco-friendly path and make sure to recycle, reuse, and repurpose whenever you can. Your beauty routine can be made more green as well and in this post I will tell you some amazing tips to make that happen! Makeup: When you can afford to, buy natural or green makeup products.Read More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green in your Bedroom
Going green is easy in the kitchen and the bathroom, but did you ever think of going green in your bedroom? You may not spend a whole lot of time in your bedroom, but it needs some Eco-love, too! Let’s look at some ways to green your bedroom and sleep in peace, knowing youRead More
20 Frugal Ways to Use Salt
Did you know that salt is good for so much more than just sprinkling on your food? Those tiny white grains of salt are small indeed, but each one can be quite powerful and help you around the house in a great deal of ways. In fact, the kitchen is just one of the placesRead More
5 Easy and Frugal Homemade Cleaning Products
Cleaning products add up. Before I went frugal, I use to spend 20 plus dollars a month on cleaning supplies for my home. I thought there was no way making them myself was going to save me a significant amount of money to make it worth my time. I also worried that they wouldRead More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green in the Kitchen
The kitchen is one of the easiest places to go green and you may be doing a lot of the things on the following list, already. Living eco-friendly in the kitchen will not only save you money, but it is also excellent for your health. Going green in the kitchen is much more than buyingRead More
Eco-Friendly Tips for Going Green In The Bathroom
In this series, I will be talking about ways to go green in every area of your life and part of that is going green in our homes. In the previous post, I talked about why you should go green to begin with. In this post, I will talk about how to go green inRead More
7 Creative Ways to Use Old Magazines
Katie is sharing creative uses for old magazines: With so many great and inexpensive magazine subscription offers out there, chances are you have a slew of magazines just taking up space in your home. Magazines are so fun to read and full of great stories, recipes, household tips and pictures, it is no wonderRead More
Going Green Series – Why You Should Go Green
I will be writing a series on how to go green in different areas of your life right here on Premeditated Leftovers. I am honored to have the space to do this! This first in the series will be on reasons why you should go green. Then, there will be several posts on how toRead More
Naturally Frugal Tip: Make Reusable Baby Wipes
While there are a lot of tutorials for how to make homemade baby wipes, you don’t see many people talking about something that is even more frugal and eco-friendly: reusable baby wipes. For my first child, I put baby washes cloths in container and covered them with a solution of 2 cups of water, 2Read More
Naturally Frugal Tip: Make Your Own Wrinkle Releaser
A while back I was given a sample of wrinkle releaser. I had my doubts about it, so it sat unused in my cupboard for months…and then I tried it and fell in love. I felt guilty because of the packaging that would have to be tossed and I wondered about the aerosol spray. IRead More
How to Save on Your Electric Bill
I don’t know about you but over the past year my electric rates have went through the roof! Every time I turn around we are getting a rate increase. For several months this was causing havoc on my monthly budget. I became determined to find ways to lower my electric bill. Thankfully, I was ableRead More
Washable Labels to Help Keep Track of Your Kids Stuff
It’s almost back to school time, which means buying all sorts of items for your children to take with them. If your kids are anything like mine, you also need a way to keep their names displayed on some of the items so that if they get lost or misplaced, they find their way backRead More
Reduce Waste with Eco-Friendly Lunch Boxes
School is right around the corner, and I’m sure you’re looking for some great products to use in your child’s lunch box. If you’re into Bento and Artisian lunches, or even into keeping your children’s foods separated, without using lots of baggies, you may be interested in EcoLunchBoxes. We bought stainless steel lunch boxes andRead More
