Eco-Friendly and Saving Money

I've recently started trying to watch what I waste more carefully. I have a garbage can with a paper bag in it from the grocery store just for paper trash. My city recycles junk mail and any paper as long as there is no food residue. It is just amazing how much of our trash was paper. In the past, we took out 2 bags every week for two people. Now we take out a bag of trash once a month, plus a small grocery bag size bag of food trash at least weekly. We put out the paper garbage bag of paper to recycle once a month too.

We help the environment by recycling and save just a little bit of money by not using so many trash bags.

We also put a 5 gallon bucket in shower while the water warms up and each almost fill up one during the course of the shower. We reuse this water to water our plants. We've only been doing this for about a month. Our plants look so much better with this extra 10 gallons of water. We are in the middle of a very severe drought in southwest Florida right now and haven't seen rain in a few months.

This doesn't really save us money other than saving the plants from dying. However, if we water with the irrigation system outside of specified days and times, we will receive a fine starting at $50 and going up to $400 depending on the number of offenses. If you think of it that way, we avoid fines and save a bundle of money by using water that was going down the drain anyway.

I hope this will be helpful to someone! Thanks for reading!! :)