TheReporter.com: Thrifty tips for tough times, Mary Lou Wilson
T here’s no escaping this fact: We’re in an economic slowdown.
But The Reporter’s thrifty and inventive readers are fighting back, saving pennies in ways that range from walking into - not driving through - fast-food restaurants to washing, drying and reusing plastic bags.
Use Freecycle
Freecycle is an Internet group open to all who want to ‘recycle’ something rather than throw it away or find a used item, whether it’s a chair, piano or old door. There is a Vacaville group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vacaville-freecycle.