Yes, it’s time for the Holidays again, which means it’s time to decorate your Sayreville & Piscataway New Jersey home. If you’re big on recycling, use eco-friendly products and try to keep your carbon footprint on a low scale, you may be trying to figure out how you can make your Holidays a blast without stepping away from your ideals.
Here are a few tips to help you get your Sayreville & Piscataway New Jersey home decorated in eco-friendly style!
Tips for an Eco-Friendly
Holiday:
- Instead of buying wrapping paper, buy decorative wooden boxes, tin boxes, cloth bags or other eco-friendly packaging to hold your presents. You can get any of these with
Holiday themes, most won’t get thrown away for years and, when they finally do fall apart, they’re biodegradable.
- If you do use wrapping paper, save the paper and reuse it next year: recycling at its best!
- Buy a real tree instead of a fake one and find an organization to plant one in its place. Once Christmas is over, you can have the Christmas tree recycled into wood chips, mulch and other wood products.
- Try buying your gifts from an eco-friendly store. Online or offline, these businesses offer gifts made from recycled, reused or all natural materials.
- Create fantastic holiday decorations with reusable materials from around the house. There are tons of decoration ideas around the Net, so you’ll be able to find some ideas that use things you already have lying around.
- Send an e-card instead of a regular
Holiday card, or buy
Holiday cards made from recycled materials.
- If you want lights, use LEDs (low-energy lights). Not only do they use less power, but also if one light goes out, the rest stay lit.
With a little bit of thought and ingenuity, your Sayreville & Piscataway New Jersey home can be as bright and cheerful as you’ve always wanted without worrying about the impact on the environment. Have a Happy (and eco-friendly)
Holiday!
If you’re looking for a green home to hang your eco-friendly wreaths in, I can help. Call me at 732-247-1935 ext 182 or email me at freddie@freddiemoorer.com for more information.
Links:
Eco-friendly packaging
http://www.nashvillewraps.com/eco-friendly-packaging/mc-051.html
Christmas tree Recycled
http://www.christmastree.org/recycle.cfm
Holiday decorations
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/holiday-ideas/christmas-wreath-projects
Hey just came across this Sony Digital Book Reader. It is about the size of a book but that is where it and a book parts ways. The reader can hold about 160 books and only weighs a pound. The thought of carrying in a one pound device a book to read at the doctor’s office or while waiting in a line make this device very attractive. It can also hold pdf files and MS Word documents. Since many books can be purchased in pdf format, this widens the list of available titles beyond those available though Sony’s Ebook Store. The reader can handle a memory stick so the number of titles it can hold in it library increases.
Does your television set use free programming for your news and entertainment? If so in early 2009 those rabbit ears will die and so will your television watching. Well sort of. On February 17, 2009 broadcast television as we know it now will die. Television sets that use antennas to capture analog broadcasts will no longer have a signal because the stations are required by law to convert to digital programming. Before you start to mourn the loss of you free entertainment, the government is offering a way to jumpstart those rabbit ears. With stations fully converted to digital signal, households that use airwave signals will need to purchase a converter box that will change the digital signal to analog so that the television can continue to work.
Television sets purchased before 1998 are analog sets. These sets will require a converter box. Some projection televisions purchased between 1998-2004 maybe digital but owners should check their manual to be sure. All others will probably need a converter box. These converter boxes must be purchased. There is a government program to help with the cost of the converter box for people who use free programming.
Cable television and satellite television users must call that service providers to find out how their televisions will be supported after February 17, 2009. Use the table provided to help you decide what action you need to take to continue your television viewing uninterrupted.
The government program that helps Americans with the cost of the converter box requires consumers to call or apply for the assistance. There is a $40 coupon available that consumers can apply to the cost of the converter. Only two converters coupons are allowed per household. Either click the image above or click here to go to the government website to learn more or here to apply online for a coupon. There is also a toll-free number 1-888-DTV-2009.
Remember don’t throw away those rabbit ears the converter will still need them.
Have not been to see either of these yet but if Santa is cooperative I hope to see both before the New Year.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
It is an action adventure movie starring Nicholas Cage, John Voight, Diane Kruger, and Justin Bartha. Basically this group goes on another treasure hunt. the National Treasure was excellent so it seems likely Disney would get it right.
The Great Debaters
To be honest, I thought this might be a bit slow for my action loving family but it is said to be well crafted and worth the price of admission. Though you know the end, it is an underdog movie, the journey to the end grabs the attention and keeps it. That peaked my interest.
With the announced pregnancy of 16 yr old Jamie Lyn Spears, who it the star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, the question of teens having consensual sex becomes the topic of the day again. Surely everyone remembers the Genarlow Wilson who was 17 years old at the time of his act with a 15 year old. Mr. Wilson was sentenced to 10 years for having consensual oral sex with his partner. Teens get bombarded with both audio and visual sexual advertising everyday. That parents don’t want their teenagers having sex is not likely to completely end teens having sex but these high profile cases do give parents the opportunity to talk to their children openly about sex. Parents can let their children know exactly how they feel about sex between teenagers and hopefully talking openly about this issue will help more teens make better choices.
It’s the national past-time and a game every new dad dreams of teaching his son but with allegations of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs by some of the great play makers casts an ugly shadow over the game. Brian McNamee claimed to have injected seven time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. Roger Clemens forcefully denies and such use:
“I want to state clearly and without qualification: I did not take steroids, human growth hormone or any other banned substances at any time in my baseball career or, in fact, my entire life,” Clemens said. “Those substances represent a dangerous and destructive shortcut that no athlete should ever take.”
Maybe it is naive, but Roger Clemens deserves the benefit of the doubt, until such time as he either admits using these drugs or there is some other proof that he did becomes available. He seemed a modest stand up guy most of his career, seems unlikely that would change now.