TGF Rated Review: Bag tube

What is it?
The Bag Tube is designed to reduce the number of plastic bags used each year and encourage reuse of plastic bags by ensuring that you always have one available when you need it.
Who is testing it? Me.
Set Up You attach your Bag Tube to your key ring, and put one or two [...]

TGF Rated Review: simplehuman slim plastic recycler

What is it? It’s great to be able to recycle more and more things, but how do you separate and store them?  Many homes struggle to find the space, including my own, so I was very happy to be sent 2 recyclers from simplehuman to test out.

Who is testing it? My family.

Set Up The instructions [...]

Angelina Urth Bag

Each day this week I am highlighting a great recycling gift to celebrate Recycle Now’s recycle week. Todays gift I think would be perfect for a girly teenager.
Made from recycled magazines, each bag features different magazine images, hence you get unique bags.  It is waterproof and has a zipper closure.
Available from Cool Green Attitude for [...]

Recycle Week: Great Gift Ideas

Last week saw me posting daily about my pledge for Recycle Week.  This week I thought I would highlight some great gift ideas made from recycled products.
I have a set of theses Champagne Flutes and when I used them this weekend (am still feeling a bit groggy from all the entertaining this weekend!) they created [...]

Recycle Now – Day five

WOW!  A whole week is nearly over again and we have been busy bees recycling all the clothes that I sorted out on Monday, now we have the last pile of clothes waiting in a bag for us to decide what we should do with them.  We  have had a couple of suggestions – thanks for [...]

Recycle Now – Day four

Day four of my recycle pledge to reuse or find a way to recycle our old/unwanted clothes for Recycle Now.
So far we have managed to have a mega sort out, much to the disgust of some members of my family!  We then recycled the really old clothes that could not be given away into dusters and [...]

Recycle Now – Day three

Those that know me, will know I am the hostess with the mostess!! I love to cook and entertain for our friends and family in our home.  I can also clean as well as the best can, iron not so bad, but other womanly chores like sewing, knitting etc are not really my forte.  So [...]

Recycle Now – Day two

Well, I think I have just about survived the clear out!!  Hubby was annoyed I had thrown away a couple of his “favourite” sleeping shirts, just because they had holes in it!!  I mean this is the man who has nearly 18 tees for sleeping in!! I hastened to remind him you can only wear [...]

Recycle Now – Day One of my unique pledge

Well I have been telling you all lately that I have signed up to www.recyclenow.com to be one of their guest bloggers for a week.
What this means is that I have created a pledge…to recycle all old and unwanted clothes from my family.  That includes, the hubby,myself and my three children.
Today I have had a [...]