Tag: recycling | Apartment Therapy

Prudent Baby Makes Pretty Placeholders

Over at Prudent Baby, they've been busy making these repurposed baby-food jar soy candles. Sure they're great as just a candle, but during party time, they'll be pulling double duty as place cards....

How To: Make Paper Out Of Household Items

One of our favorite stops on the internet is the blog of Filth Wizardry. It's a grand place where kids can be kids and there's always creative, smart and resourceful projects going on. One of our ...

Reusing Baby Food Jars

Reusing glass baby food jars isn't a new idea. The chubby pots make for great containers for all manner of items - craft and sewing supplies, spices, spare change. But we always have one complaint a...

Packaging As Toys

By now we're all familiar with the popularity of recycled and recyclable cardboard toys and kids furniture. Before the recent cardboard trend, we used to hoard shoe boxes to create a stacked apartmen...

Green Tip: Gimme 5 Recycling Program

No matter how many times we tell our husband that yogurt containers aren't recyclable in our city, we still regularly dig them out of the recycling bin. And we notice most of the tenants in our bui...

Good Questions: Donate Toys to Charity or Organization?

Len has a question for the crowd: I have a lot of my grandsons old toys i would like to donate to some charity or organization. Can you tell me of any that will pick up toys? (Note: Include a pic of y...

Recycle your Sneakers

Did you clean out your family's closets this January? If so, maybe you found some worn out tennis shoes or sneakers your kids have outgrown. A friend of ours is a running fanatic and told us about...