saving green & being green

refilled ink cartridge

Got my ink cartridges refilled yesterday.  I saved $20ish getting them refilled because I remember looking for them at Costco and they were roughly 60 bucks.  Since they already had some ready, we just swapped for another set of cartridges and the guy reassured me that although the packages were big, they were used packages.  Awesome, two things got recycled, ink cartridges and packaging.  It’s my last quarter of college so hopefully I won’t have to through ink as fast ever again!

Plan to enjoy the weather again by continuing our letterboxing adventures.  Will share about it tomorrow.

Saving paper when you print.

I’m a fourth year in college so I’ve had my share of guilt every time I had to print out pages and pages of notes and such.  But for almost two years now I haven’t had to purchased any new white paper.  I save all my old papers from previous quarters and go through and save the ones with one whole blank side.  I also go through bins from work, school, and my house mate’s and rescue whatever pages I can.  I call these “printable whole pages” and use them to print things like notes, info, and whatever I could get away with.  I save my new white pages for only formal things like essays and resumes.  Remember to take out any staples and don’t keep pages that are too wrinkled because they can get jammed in your printer and cause a mess.  And I always print on “fast draft” to prolong my ink cartridges.  Also if you have lots of pages to print out, put multiple pages onto one page to crunch the numbers down.  See below.

Now I also save “printable half pages.” which I use to print out shipping labels for product orders on Etsy and such.

printable half page

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