{"id":11152,"date":"2010-04-22T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2014-01-27T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T01:28:46","slug":"earth-day-money-saving-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/earth-day-money-saving-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Money Saving Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/earthday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11159\" title=\"earth day\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/earthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tips to go green all year round!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cloth-diapers-so-easy-your-husband-will-be-changing-the-diapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Use cloth diapers<\/a>. After a year of using them, I have to admit it is much easier than I thought. It takes an extra ten minutes every two days to use cloth diapers. They are well worth the time and the initial expense.<\/li>\n<li>Save money on utilities by <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/visit-your-electric-companys-website\/\" target=\"_blank\">visiting your utilities website <\/a>and enrolling in their energy saving (and money saving) programs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-christmas-wrap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recycle grocery bags <\/a>by using them as gift wrap.<\/li>\n<li>Recycle your table scraps with a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/diy-compost-bin\/\" target=\"_blank\">DIY compost bin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Try some\u00a0 of these <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/green-living-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy green living tips<\/a>. We have implemented many of these ideas over the past year and saved money and lessened our waste.<\/li>\n<li>Recycle old clothes by making<a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=81\" target=\"_blank\"> purses<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=403\" target=\"_blank\">toddler dresses<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Reusing <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=260\" target=\"_blank\">mailing envelopes. <\/a>(The yellow envelopes cannot be recycled)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t waste old bread,<a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=428\" target=\"_blank\"> use it to make your own bread crumbs.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t toss all those crayon drawings<a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=297\" target=\"_blank\"> recycle your kids&#8217; artwork.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/dissatisfied-husband\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take your own containers to restaurants <\/a>to use for doggie-bags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is your favorite &#8220;green&#8221; money saving tip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips to go green all year round! Use cloth diapers. After a year of using them, I have to admit it is much easier than I thought. It takes an extra ten minutes every two days to use cloth diapers. They are well worth the time and the initial expense. Save money on utilities by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[680,681,1114],"class_list":{"0":"post-11152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-green-living-homemaking","7":"tag-earth-day","8":"tag-earth-day-money-saving-tips","9":"tag-green-living","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11168,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}