Recycling Sneakers

Don't you want to know how to recycle your old sneakers. Wouldnt it be great to keep all those old shoes out of the land fill. Well here is the site you can mail your old shoes to, any brand.
Nike will take them and put them to good use.
Mail them to:
Nike Recycling Center,
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Avenue,
Wilsonville, OR. 97070

There are drop off sites check www.letmeplay.com/reuseashoe
to see if there is a site near you.
Love MDC

WOW me a guest speaker for Westchester Magazine

http://dreamhome.westchestermagazine.com

I am being featured as the guest speaker for Westchester Magazine at their green DreamHome 2009 that is being built in Armonk. The money raised from tours every Thurs, Frid, Sat and Sun in May goes to the Open Door clinics in Westchester County. I will be speaker on keeping a green organized closet on 5/23 &30 from 1-2 pm. I hope you all can attend and see this beautiful home and all the green elements it has in it. You may get some great ideas to add to your own home.
Love MDC.

Paper Endless Paper

When confronted with old banking statement, financial records, personal papers, the key to success to shredding. We live in a era of self protection. There are certain guidelines for how long to keep records, and as always I would like to see as much as possible be on the computer and paper free. I tend to keep 2 months of regular bills, ConEd, Water, and store credit cards as long as there are no errors. Anything for taxes go into a special folder for the CPA. Everything else with my name that I receive in the mail I shred so no one could use to assume my ID.

My motto is better to shred that to be re-created.

Love MDC

Crocs recycled.

We want spring so bad we have started to clean out closets and try on shoes. Some of us may be going away for a warm vacation next month and will be going shopping to replace shoes the kids have outgrown or worn out. Case in point Crocs, what to do when they are used up.

info@solesunited.com is the place to go to either mail back for recycling or they have posted drop off sites where you can take the shoes to be shredded and make into new shoes for the kids in poor countries. It takes some work but so worth the extra effort.

Love MDC

I am cleaning out the estate of a 71 year old woman who passed away. Her home needs to be sold and all the contents are being donated to charity. I came across this doll today and it made me wonder if it was 1 that she played with as a little girl? it is very old and appears to has been very loved. I am going to find a new home for it. Little Red Riding Hood needs to continue to be loved even though her owner has gone on to another place. this dolly truly shows how life comes full circle.

Love MDC

Hangers,
What are we to do with them. Today I cleaned out a closet that left me with hundreds of hangers. I recommend that you ask your dry cleaner for a cardboard caddy to keep then orderly in the closet and then return them at the next visit. When you consider the average woman or man using 1 garment off a dry cleaner hanger will go through about 300 a year, please lets return then for another go around. Then use the good hanger in your closets to keep your clothes looking great.
Love MDC

Its Sunday Night and I am multi-tasking watching the Oscars and planning the weeks menu of meals. I went on line to BH&G and started a recipe box. They have all different styles,using all different cuts of meats, slow cookers, casseroles and everything in between, to make the night before and vegetarian. I like it because you don't have to print the recipe or ingredients just copy onto your shopping list what you need and read from your computer the rest of the directions. It has 1000's of ideas on line and easy to get to all for free. all green no money spent and new ideas with the same pieces of meat to keep meals different.
Love MD

Family Goals

I have missed several days of blogging due to foot surgery. After a totally lost day to drugs and pain I got caught up on months of reading and and ideas for all of you. I read 1 thing that really struck me as a single mom of 3 teens. We all have goals, life, as a parent, work, as students, in many areas of our life, but do we have them as a family. I try very hard to have a sit down traditional dinner as often as possible and I want to come up with a goal for our family. When it comes to being organized having a family goal will bring all good thing together as a unit, the entire family. In this day and age we need as much of this as possible to keep our family whole and functioning with a goal in sight.
Love MD

If you find that you can't find, then it is time to get to the bottom of the desk and look for the wood. I suggest you start with 1 pile at a time and shred, recycle or file for a later date to use. If it is an article you want to read, I carry a bag with me so when I have waiting time in MD offices or anywhere I can pull out that 1 things get it read and then be done with it.

Never tackle too much at one or you will end up walking away from the entire project.

Read and recycle 1 thing today and getit out of the house you will feel so much better. Have a great day.

Love MD

My Divine Quick Books

First entry on my new blog. I am a green organizing/concierge business. I expect to talk about tips to keep green in your home, and life. Maybe even find some home that are in need of my services that I can go in an organize.
Today I worked on getting all my accounts in order for 08 to deliver to my CPS for my taxes.
Now it is not too late to start a folder to saved receipts for this years donation, and other items you want to keep. I go papperless as much as possible by paying bills on-line. it is easy to keep track and go back and make copies when you need them and you save so many stamps, if you need advice send me a question. Some paper we all need, for taxes, Uncle Sam says so. so buy a 12 month according file and just put your receipts for each month in the slot, then it will be much easier to get them ready at the end of the year. I keep mine under my desk so at the end of the night I stick everything in the right slot.
All the best lets get caught up now before it is too late.
Love MD