“Can you put both meats into the same bag?” a customer asked at a deli. 
We told her we couldn’t because the two price stickers with UPCs would be confusing at the checkout since this wasn’t standard procedure.  I suggested she combine them into one bag once she left the supermarket, thinking she wanted to do that for storage purposes.
“No,” she said.  “That wouldn’t work.  I’m trying to save on plastic bags and thought I’d use only one.”
 I’ve seen that customers often bring their own bags and some prefer paper bags over plastic.  They also bring plastic back for recycling.  This …read more

As I browse around the Internet and through newspapers, I enjoy leaning about small and home business ventures that feature success.  Some of these are very unique and bring great enjoyment to the owners.
 Mountain Ash Design (www.mountainashdesign.com) in Vermont (USA) features the reuse of old clothes.  (In modern verbage, we might call it “going green,” because owner Sarah O. Green …no pun intended…is redesigning and recycling old clothing and creating unique items from the fabric.)
 Using “good” old fabric again and again stems back to the pioneers who didn’t have nearby stores with new fabric.  Also, usually their budgets didn’t allow for …read more

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As a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, I learned to “get the most mileage” from my interviews and research.  Most of the time, a journalist has far more information than needed for the immediate story. So why not write a variety of articles/stories from it?
The same can be said for your blog posts.
*Some might act as springboards for new ones.
*Some could be revised and used again at a later date.
*You could link to them from new posts.
*Also, check out Liz Fuller’s suggestions, at Business and Blogging.  She has some very creative ideas in her post (#2 in a series): What to …read more