5 Money-Saving (and Conservation-Friendly) Tips
Channel your inner Laura Ingalls Wilder!
As price gouging and inflation drive up the costs of everything from paper products to staple foods, many of us are looking for ways to scrounge back a few of those pennies and dollars. At the same time, as we see garbage floating in the oceans and clogging landfills, temperatures getting hotter, and storms getting nastier, many of us are also thinking about ways to leave a livable planet for our children and grandchildren.
But being environmentally friendly is expensive, right? It’s just something the upper middle class can do.
Not always. In fact, not often. Many of the ways the generations before us scrimped and saved protected both their pocketbooks and their natural resources. The generation of the Great Depression learned to reuse everything, to spend frugally, and to take care of the soil to keep it from blowing away on the wind. They did all things at once because they had to, and really, our generation is not all that different now.
When it comes down to it, if your primary motivation is to save money and there happen to be some benefits to the land, air, and water, that’s great news all around! You don’t have to hug trees or broadcast it on your social media channels.
