Reusing household items in creative ways

You can give many everyday trash items a new lease on life by creatively reusing the items in the home or office. Here are few easy examples: Use the backs of old envelopes for writing your shopping lists. You can even slip coupons right into the envelope before you leave the house. Cut cereal boxes to size to use for photo mailers.

Cut off the fronts of old holiday cards and make them into holiday post- cards. You save on postage and on the price of new cards. Instead of grabbing a paper towel next time you spill something or need to dust, keep a supply of scraps of old T-shirts and other clothes. If someone else can still use an article of clothing, donate it to charity; if it has stains or holes, it's a prime candidate for a household rag.

If you get plastic grocery bags at the supermarket, don't just throw them away. You can reuse plastic grocery bags in a multitude of simple ways:
· Pack your lunch.
· Use them as garbage bags for the trash can.
· Wrap dirty cloth diapers in a plastic bag when you're out and about
· Put dirty laundry in bags when traveling.
· Store shoes in bags to keep them separate from clothes in suit- cases and travel bags.
· Wrap smelly garbage and bloody meat wrappers in plastic bags before putting in the trash.

Reducing Television and Cable Expenses

Getting rid of cable television can save substantially on your yearly house- hold expenses. If you figure that your cable costs you $25 per month on the low end, you're paying a bare minimum of $300 per year, and if you add pre- mium channels, you can spend more than $80 per month.

If cable television is absolutely essential to your life, the best way to save money is to stick with the bare-bones basic package. This package usually includes the major networks, public broadcasting, assorted educational channels, and a handful of others. It usually doesn't include many of the chil- dren's cartoon channels, however. Basic analog cable seems to run $10 to $15 per month throughout the United States, compared to more than $50 per month for expanded cable. You save at least a couple hundred dollars per year. With a fraction of that amount, you can rent all the movies you really want to see - or, better yet, borrow them from your library.

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