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30 Day Reuse Challenge- Will You Join?

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by Melissa on September 20, 2010

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IMG_4999 We all know that using refillable bottles and containers can help the environment, but did you know that it can help you save money, too? In the United States, 50 billion disposable water bottles are consumed per year (137,000 per day!). If a water bottle is $.50-$1, that is over $100,000 dollars being thrown away (literally) each day.

Aladdin has created the 30 Day Challenge to help people not only help the environment, but save money, all while being stylish. This challenge is a 30-day commitment to give up disposable paper cups, water bottles, or food containers. Nine families will be blogging about their experience in the challenge on the Aladdin website. But the 30 Day Challenge is limited to these families – Aladdin is asking everyone to participate. You can Do The Reuse Challenge and commit to use reusable water bottles, coffee cups, or snack containers, and see what kind of impact you can make.IMG_5002

A Few More Facts:

  • It costs about $165 a year to make drip coffee at home versus $636 to buy drip coffee at your local café.
  • Unless we change our habits, 23 billion paper coffee cups will be thrown out in 2010.
  • Nine dollars will generally cover a decent lunch out. If you buy rather than pack a lunch five days a week, you shell out about $2,350 a year.

I accepted the challenge and I have already starting using reusable water containers for myself and my boys. It is easier on our budget, and I know that water is always near by (a must in the dry AZ heat!).  I also picked up a few reusable snack containers (and a sandwich holder) for my son’s lunch, so I don’t have to worry about buying extra bags all year.

By accepting the Do The Reuse Challenge, you can also get discounts and FREE shipping on selected Aladdin products, so if you don’t already have reusable containers, you can get them now. You can also find Aladdin on Facebook.

So, will you accept the Challenge? How do you plan to reuse and save?

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-Melissa

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  • http://www.thefullquiver.com Melody G.

    I am a young adult living with my parents and six siblings. Our family has learned to greatly reduce our use of paper products and other disposable items over the years– because we can’t afford to do otherwise! Some things we reuse are:
    - Cups: Instead of disposable, we use peanut butter, etc. jars for drinking at home. For travel or any time in the car, we use recyclable plastic bottles (we got ours at Target, and also saw them for an even better price at a Coleman outlet store.) Most of the time we also use reusable coffee cups when purchasing coffee (which saves money because usually you only pay the refill price!)
    - Reusable containers: Since we homeschool, we don’t have a necessity to pack lunches, except for my dad; for that we use regular plastic food containers.
    - Silverware and plates/bowls: we use these items we purchase at a thrift store or Goodwill– mostly plastic since there are younger children doing the dishes :-); plasticware and paper plates are used sometimes on the weekends when we don’t want to do the dishes!
    - Plastic bags: we try to reuse ziplock and grocery bags as many times as possible. When there are no more uses left in them we recycle.

    We recycle all cardboard, paper, plastic, metal, aluminum (which can be turned in for some extra cash at the scrap place!), and any other material that is accepted by city or state rules. This helps to prevent filling the landfill with materials that can be reused.
    We’ve never added up the savings, but I’m sure we’ve saved a good amount of money yearly just by being frugal-minded. Thanks, Melissa for all your great tips on saving money and being “green”!

    Hope this helps!
    In Christ,
    Melody

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