resolve, reuse, recycle
Filed Under Events, Tips & Tricks | January 4, 2010
This year we resolve to stay true to our roots and keep bringing you great ideas to make your life with little ones easier. We’ll continue to handpick our favourite selection of all that’s baby and kid-related in the Lower Mainland (or easily accessible online).
We test and try everything before we review it in our editorial so when we recommend something we’ve been there and done that (or our kids have) and you’re getting our honest, unpaid, discriminating opinion on local family-friendly products, places and events.
But it does take a pretty penny to keep everything running which is why we run clearly marked advertorial – Sponsored Links, Dedicated Emails and our great Contests are just a few examples. We work hard to partner with advertisers with similar values and we think you’ll be excited by some of the new companies we’ll be working with this year. Their support – and yours – is what allows us to keep yoyomama-ing. So thank you!
And to get the year off to a good start here are some ideas for dealing with the detritus of the holidays:
If your tree’s still shedding needles all over your living room Lions Clubs around Vancouver have teamed up with the city to host handy chipping events this Saturday and Sunday. Take along a donation of cash or non-perishable food items and cross reducing and recycling off your list. From now till the 10th you can also recycle your tree at the UBC Botanical Garden in support of a heritage food garden for SPG Childcare/Quilchena Elementary. If the weather’s not inclement you could make a morning of it and explore the gardens while you’re there. You can also drop off your tree at the Vancouver South Transfer Station or, until January 31st, put your tree out on your regular yard trimmings collection day.
And if you want to reuse why not save this year’s Christmas cards to be cut down to make next year’s gift tags? Wrapping scraps are great for everyday craft projects and red paper can be saved for your Valentine’s Day creations. And if you have any cardboard boxes floating around you could recycle them or you could use these free patterns to make kids’ furniture.
Happy New Year and New Decade from all of us at yoyomama!
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