One of my 7 goals and Organization

One of my summer reading list books was 7.  It challenged me in several ways.  You can read my review of 7 here.  

 ::My 7 Waste Goal:: Buy a larger trash can for our recycle items.

I purchased this trash can from IKEA

I used my Cricut to cut white vinyl letters for the Recycle Bin.

We have a small recycle bin in our garage provided by our county.

We always fill it up overflowing.

My sink was always full of recycle items.  At the end of the day

I would gather it all up and take it out to the garage.

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This new bin
*sits at one end of our island.

*has a flip lid

*keeps me from stacking recycle stuff in the sink

*saves me trips to the garage

*I can put this bin right out on the curb and they will empty it because it says RECYCLE!

*has come in so handy 

*our 2 and 3 year old are learning to recycle

*it has made recycling even easier for our family

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Garage Sale Finds

A couple of my friends and I love garage sale-ing!  We nick named ourselves "Garage Sale Gang Moms".  We always go in a gang or together.  And we take no children, no husbands, reusable bags, a minivan, and a pocket of cash.

This really has turned into a great way for us to clothe our children as well as furnish our homes, pick up craft project materials, or score steals on toys and bikes for our kids.  When you can clothe 2 kids for less than $100.00 from garage sales.....YOU DO IT!

We usually do this in the Spring and the Fall.  There are several large neighborhoods in our area that have neighborhood wide garage sales during these times of the year.  We hit them up every season.  Clothes we hardly ever pay more than a $1 per piece and sometimes we score for even less than that.  Just last week I picked up 26 pieces of clothing plus 3 pairs of gently used shoes for my kids for $6.00!  Yep you read that right $6.00!!!!!

Really you can not beat these deals!  Here is one of my "Garage Sale Gang Moms" showing off her latest "crafting" finds!

Do you Garage Sale?  And what has been your best find?