Pacific Steel & Recycling now offers drops for any imaginable container. They accept plastic bottles, magazines, cardboard, paper waste. In addition to the drops they offer cash from scrap metal such as aluminum cans, copper, brass, steel, and other scrap metal. Two full grocery bags of aluminum cans will pay about $3, enough to recoup the fuel costs for recycling. If you have the motivation you could potentially start a neighborhood aluminum can pickup.
Most grocery stores have a bin, near the entrance, where you can recycle used plastic sacks. I find that plastic store sacks make convenient storage receptacle for cans, plastic bottoms, small waste bins, and for sealing up diapers.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Frugal Tips: Entertainment
Forget renting movies at a brick-and-mortar store! Why pay for a leisure book that you will read one, on average? Why pay for television when most are available for free online? Perhaps the following ideas cut down on your entertainment expenses a bit:
- Movies
- Missoula Public Library
- Free rental of feature, box-sets, and main-library movies.
- RedBox
- Cheap new release and main library DVDs are available only $1.00 per day.
- Blu-rays are becoming increasingly available for $1.50 per day.
- Netflix
- Provides $5 unlimited streaming movies and TV shows.
- Works on your broadband-enabled PC, Wii, PS3, xBox 360, or other device.
- Books
- Missoula Public Library
- Provides 28 day rentals on thousands of titles.
- The Book Exchange
- Trade in your books for book purchase credit.
- Goodwill
- A variety of book genres are available for only pennies.
- Music
- Free internet radio
- Pandora
- last.fm
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)