Posted by Snow in Want to save money and power? Trying to cut back on Unnecessary consumption? Looking to re-use whenever possible? Here are seven sneaky ways to recycle using new technology.
1. Use your laptop as a heater.
That old super heating thigh cooker makes a dandy small room heater when working independently or in the morning or evening. If you are one of those people who keep the machine going on and on, make it pay off with drying laundry nearby. Don’t turn up the heater. Get to work.
2. Big-Box bags and Trashbags catch Rain
If you hear the weatherman announce that Nature is about to spout off, run outside with that extra large trash bag or Big-Box plastic bag from your last big buy. The rain will wash one load of clothes and agitate naturally in a half barrel or washpan.
Line an empty trash bin or half barrel, whatever box or shelf (even truck pickup bed) with the bag open side top. In the morning or when you come home from work, the final rinse for the dirty dishes or pre soak water for the laundry has been delivered free! Ue half the detergent on pre-rinsed loads.
3. Watch TV on your laptop.
Don’t work in the ktichen with the big screen turned up and lights on throughout the house. Carry the laptop into the kitchen. That big monitor burns electricity and watching passively TV eats time. Program your laptop to store shows using a tuner or download from network websites.
Watch shows online or save them to a flash drive or rent online. If you work and multitask watching movies online, you have better control over re-watching best scenes, sound volume, timing of bathroom breaks, and can occupy a smaller space in an already heated area or subarea of another room.
4. Solar Power your Chats
Using that cellphone round the clock? Email means live talk really isn’t that cheap anymore. Make a deal with yourself that so much recharge must come from solar power rechargeable devices per day. Let your friends and family know. When the power runs out, so does the phone bill.
5. MicroTowel Thyself
These skinny profile microfiber towels really work. Save ten minutes blow drying and ten to fifteen minutes washing and laundering the towel by wrapping your head in a microtowel. The dry fast and can be used on clothing that you have single rinsed. They are great for re-use.
6. Host an online Potluck.
Blog up a quick Potluck Exchange for the people on your block. Post about food that can be picked up quick or is ready to be thrown out. Put up alarm tags for things like bread or milk that will spoil unless somebody consumes them, and out up red flags for stuff you need for a recipe and the amount.
You’ll be saving other people a trip to the grocery for that one thing. Any number of reasons something might be tossed. Their schedule does not have time to allow proper cooking, the family is gone too much for a big cut of steak or big dish you’d planned, or you caved and went out to eat. Everybody has something in the fridge that is jussssssst about ready to be consumed or thrown out.
7. Get Skype/Vonage Internet calls
If you have online services at home, make sure your speed and provide allows for Skype or Vonage or other carrier free Internet voice and video calls. Telecommuting to work might be that much easier if you have video assisted chat. Driving to the coffee shop to meet a friend a city away might be marked up to technology.
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