Your own energy, isotonic, etc. drink for your training.

Rushing from my office to the local gym I often do not have time for anything but buying a ready-made drink in a nearby shop, however...

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Your own energy, isotonic, etc. drink for your training.

Recycling / reusing already printed office paper.

I've mentioned before that I use already printed paper again. This is not only the matter of saving a few coppers with every used A4 sheet, this it the matter of recycling / reusing paper which is not very natural. Producing perfectly white office paper is not good for the environment, a lot of chloride is used, polluting air, etc.

Above you can see the first phase of work, reviewing and selecting those sheets which can be reused.

This is not particularly time consuming or tiring, in fact, I consider it some kind of relax. You can see the sheets in the photo, however, you can't hear the music :)

Finally I put selected sheets in my laser printer, of course as a famous Polish author, I do not pay for printing :) my advertising partners do that :)

Sun, good mood and eco-printing :)

Cleaning my car mats

It's April 1st, and we in Poland have snow outside, quite weird... and people complain about it. Well, you cannot do anything about it, but you can use it for your own convenience.

I chose to clean my car mats using snow.

Can you see the dirt left behind?

No chemicals, no detergents, just fresh pure snow. Saving money, saving time (by doing it at home, not in a car wash). I like to have the job done. :-)

My famous piggy-bank.

Here you can see my famous moneybox. I collect all my coppers and coins from my bulging wallet. It makes my life easier and it makes my money-saving comfortable.

I can 'utilize' all the collected coins in a supermarket at the automated cash point or in some shops where they are willing to take coppers.

There are political plans in Poland to withdraw coppers, as they do not represent a significant value and 'cause' problems to banks.

I don't mind keeping them. I prefer 'real' money to plastic.

Cutting tubes.

As I have written many times before I am convinced that manufacturers create product packaging and tubes in a way that makes it impossible for us to use everything. Clever? Perhaps, but I don't like it... so I often cut tubes.

Believe or not, but in the "empty" tube shown above there still was enough mustard for a nice single meal. Here the "money saving" tip will not bring you significant benefits, but imagine that you can do that with expensive cosmetics.

Nice idea, isn't it?

Windowsill mini-garden.

I've reused the old pot with lemon balm roots (Melissa officinalis), cardamine seeds and I've put an onion inside. An onion with leaves becomes bitter, however leaves alone are quite tasty.

Why not? Lemon balm is not cheap, trying to revive it saves money :) The rest of herbs have been planted just for fun (and good sandwiches, finally).

Quite often we have two or three windowsill gardens, usually with some fresh herbs.