Recycling Receipts

As a consumer, we are required if not obligated to bring home the reciepts of our purchases, so we can return defective or expired products back to our local supermarkets usually within 7 days. But what happens to these reciept after?

My sister came up with a creative idea. Why not use the back portion as a memo pad? Simple but ingenious. It started with her compilation of bank acknowledgement reciepts from her deposits and withdrawals. After a year of compiling these reciepts, she was ready to dispose them, but instead of throwing them straight to the bin, she used a durable clip ang hanged the bunch of papers near our door. My mom and I actually find it useful since we usually leave notes to each other. She also use those paper to write phoned in messages and post it in our fridge so we can read them. A few days after, I saw a bunch of reciepts in our cabinets. I cut  these receipts in half and added them in our supply of memo pads. Since then, whenever I purchase something that comes with a reciepts, instead of throwing it straight to the bin, I found another way to use these paper and again minimize our family's carbon footprint.

My next project will be to create a presentable personalized planner which I intend to use next year. Hopefully I would be able to find time to do them.. :) Till then.. Ciao!