Thrifty Tip: Save Foam Packing Peanuts and Reuse Them
5 August 2006There are two basic ways to improve your financial bottom line: save more from your budget, or make more money coming in. From time to time the blog will include tips that help you pinch pennies - because over time they add up. Whether it’s a better idea for you to focus on scrimping and saving or just make more money so you don’t have to worry about it depends on your career and your personality.
Today’s tip: When you get a box filled up with those foam packing peanuts, you don’t have to throw them away. There are several potential uses you can have for them:
1) Potting soil. Put them at the bottom of a plant pot instead of the hard clay people usually use. It’s cheaper and often works better at insulating the plant’s roots.
2) Make a cheap beanbag chair. If you save up enough of those peanuts, you can fill up the inside for free - either buy the plastic liner or make it yourself and get a chair for the cost of materials.
3) Arts and Crafts. If you have kids, they can use these just like you would maccaroni pieces in various art projects.
4) If you run a business, keep them and use them for your own shipping. Why waste something you’re getting for free? Small businesses can avoid a pointless cost by saving them and using them again when they need to send something out.
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