This is an email from one of my readers,
Hello, so I have finally decided to order a paper subscription, I realized that I can benefit so much more if I have multiple coupons to be able to stock up on thrifty deals! I was just uncomfortable with wasting so many papers on Sunday, so I have decided to drop them off to a nursing home down the street. This might be a good topic of discussion, I am curious to see others creative ways other than just tossing them or recycling them?
I think this bring up a very good point that I would love to hear your feedback on. Greg at the Idaho Press Tribune told me that it would be a great idea for the Boy scouts to put together a paper drive. Where they would come pick the boxes of extra paper from all of us couponers. Then the Boy Scouts would be able to take all the papers and turn them into the recycle centers and keep the profit for their scout troop. It would be a great way to give service to the community and to help them earn some money. I love this idea! Below is a post I did a few months ago on another way to help out with your papers.
If you get the ” A Thrifty Mom Paper deal ” and get multiple Sunday papers then you most likely have the same problem as I do. Boxes of Paper, they fill up fast. I have not always recycled my papers, it takes extra time and is one more thing to add to my “to do” list. But I always felt guilty about tossing them in the trash. I use to take them to the Rite Aid parking lot, and toss them in the big recycle bins.
But then I found out from one of my readers Mary, that I can take them to the Nampa recycling center and it will benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Boise. At the Caldwell United Metals, you can donate any used metal and at the Nampa Western Recycling, you can donate not only metal but also newspaper, cardboard and white paper. They have accounts set up at both plants. All you have to do is tell the scale attendant the donation is for the Boise RMH.
You all know how I feel about the Ronald McDonald House, it is such a wonderful place. Due to my sons health we have had to stay there in the past. It is not easy to accept help from others, but greatly needed at that time in our lives. It has been our goal to continue to give back as a way to say thank you.
So PLEASE do not toss your papers, and other recyclable items in the trash….and help a child in need instead. To read the post with other ways you can give back to RMH click here
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Also read here to see that pet shelters need newspapers for cage liners
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Many Lions Clubs also recycle newspapers. They use the money for local events and to support the Lions Eye Foundation. You can find contact information for your local Lions Club at http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/find-a-club.php
I love the scout idea! I am planning on using a lot of mine as a weed barrier. I tear them up and lay it down around my plants to keep the weeds from coming up. I would love to put actual weed barrier down, but since the plants are already there, the newspaper makes it easier to maneuver around them.
Hello, we heat our home with wood(haven’t used electric in almost 7yrs)we start in the spring collecting newspapers from family and Sunday paper. We need a huge stockpile so we can light those wonderful wood fires. Find a family that burns wood and wha-la no paper problem. And its been recycled to help keep a family warm. Bonus,you also get a warm fuzzy feeling.
Do you know of anyone buying coupons on ebay? I just bought my first 100 coupons for .99cents. You can type in grocery coupons and 15 pages will come up of mixed coupons. If you are looking for say peanut butter then type in peanut butter coupons and you will be able to buy a lot of 10 or so starting at .99 cents. I stopped taking the paper because it was spending more on the paper than I was on saving with coupons. So this is how I get coupons now.
I hopw this will help some of your readers.
Our PTA has a bin at the city office and at the school. Did you know that the toilet paper tube, paper towel tube, cereal boxes, pasta boxes, and so on are made of recycled paper? Don’t forget to add them to you paper recycle box.
I work in a car rental agency and the guys use newspaper to clean the windows. So, I always bring in my Sunday papers.
I recently subscribed for one year to the Idaho Statesman coupon special. Knowing that I would have four extra Sunday papers, I went around and talked to my neighbors. The Statesman is a great paper and the Sunday paper has many nice features, but not everyone can pay to subscribe. I found two retired couples, a single guy and a family with a stay-at-home dad who were all thrilled to be able to get a Sunday paper. Last Sunday I removed all my coupons and left the newspaper for them to enjoy. I will “deliver” it each week to them on Sundays and it gives me a chance to say hello. The way I figure it, after they get the paper every Sunday for a year, they will miss it when the year is up and they will be subscribers on their own after that!
I’ve been taking my extra papers to the Idaho Youth Ranch. They use them to wrap the breakable items in and are always running out.
I live in Boise and we have the no-sort recycle trash cans they pick up every other week as part of our trash service!
Is there a recycling center in Boise that does this too or would you just take them directly to the RMH?
Back in the days when I would feed my addiction to claw machines (you know, those machines they have in Walmart and other stores where you try to pick up stuffed animals and toys with a metal claw?) I was always wanting to take my monthly loot of toys and stuffed animals to RMH, but wasn’t quite sure how to approach it. I didn’t know if you could just walk right in, since it’s a business, or if I should knock first, out of courtesy to the temporary residents.
I know I should’ve just called, but it was always a spur of the moment thing, while I was out running errands and opened the trunk and realized that yet again, the plastic tote I kept in there to keep my winnings clean and safe was overflowing.
I ended up instead giving them to a coworker who worked with Habitat for Humanity or dropping them in the Toys for Tots boxes around the holidays.
Sorry the Ronald McDonald has said it was just through the Nampa Western Recycling
Animal shelers love the x papers, or maybe in the zoo.
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