I've been surfing around tonight looking at many wonderful sites and blogs and came upon one that has inspired me to do something more than my usual.  I've never been a big recycler.  I used to recycle when the town made it easy but I have moved and this town does not have curbside pickup so not only do I throw everything away, but I have to pay for it too.    There is no recycling service from the trash company.

Now and then though I find a way to do something good for the earth.  I reuse lots of paper and plastic bags and stopped buying the newspaper years ago.  I get a certain magazine for a few years, keep all the copies then stop the subscription and just reuse the old mags.  So just now I found some more great ideas from Ginny at Proverbs 22:6 Academy.  Cloth napkins!  I love them but rarely use them because I have so few.  I don't know why I never thought to make my own.  What in the world we do without other friendly bloggers?

Now as a sort of spin off from that I remembered that my sister always uses silk hankies because they are softer on her skin.  Now I can't afford to go out and buy silk hankies but for the amount of paper tissues I have gone through this winter, I think it would certainly be a savings to our earth to make some of those silk ones up.  The best part is that I just happen to have a few worn out silk blouses from the 80's that I was ready to get rid of.  I am going to pull those babies out and make them into lots of silk hankies.  If I get enough I may even give a few to my dear sister for her birthday.

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Posted by proverbsmomof3

and the plug.:) What a wonderful way to recycle those shirts. And how elegent the hankies will be. Great idea. Have a wonderful day.

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