Make Your Baked Potato Fun!

You can add baby arugula, sour cream, and crumbled bacon on top! Yum! Or roasted grape tomatoes and ricotta cheese! For the tomatoes, lightly coat in extra virgin olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper, and bake until they burst. You can also try oil-packed artichokes, Kalamata olives, and grated lemon zest.

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Consider swapping books instead of buying new ones. It's wayyyyy cheaper!

Buy Concentrated Soaps and Cleaners

Go to the 99 cent store and buy a spray bottle for your cleaner. Add concentrated soap or cleaner and fill the bottle up with water as instructed. Less packaging means less waste. But often times you also save money this way, too, as well as time because you aren't running back to the drugstore to replace your cleaning products. My personal favorite is Dr. Bonner's magic soap. I use it as an all purpose cleaner, as well as for hand soap and to hand wash my delicates. You can use this marvelously versatile product as a body wash, shampoo, bubble bath, toothpaste, laundry detergent, facial pack, dish soap, and all purpose cleaner!

Unload Your Truck

Remove all unnecessary items from the trunk of your car. The lighter the load, the less gas you consume. You're being environmentally-conscious and saving money.

Bring Your Own Water Bottle

Many of us don't drink nearly as much water as we should. A great way to resolve that is by buying your own BPA free water bottle. You can refill it throughout the day, ensuring that you're properly hydrated. It's also much more affordable, environmentally-conscious, and time-efficient than buying water bottles. Save!

Bring Your Own Garment Bag

Save on plastic and minimize trash by bringing your own garment bag to the dry cleaners. Small changes like these become a regular part of your habit. By doing stuff like this regularly, you get in the practice of reusing and recycling. Many people, I suspect, don't reuse as much as they should because they aren't in the practice of it, so they forget to do so by not making proper preparations. I know I was like that. But if you go to the dry cleaners often, this is a solution worth incorporating.

At Home Dry Cleaning Kits

There are many at-home dry cleaning kits available. It comes with a ball that protects your clothes from the abrasiveness of the washer that can damage clothes. It's a fraction of the cost of going to the dry cleaners. You save time and money on your gas bill and dry cleaning bill, allowing you to spend your time more productively.

Hang Dry Your Clothes

In the modern society we live in, many people prefer throwing their wet clothes into the dryer but we can save a lot of money and become energy-efficient by hang drying our clothes. Make small changes to make hang drying your clothes easier such as hand washing smaller items and/or washing smaller loads of laundry. It becomes less overwhelming this way. Place a hang liner at the most convenient spot, so you're likely to use it. You can simply buy a nail and a strong rope or thread and tie it in place. It's an inexpensive and effective hang liner.