Go Green tips for August 18th

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Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Wednesday, August 18th:

• Having trouble keeping the cool? Lower the blinds and pull the curtains. Cutting down on the natural light coming in helps keep the temperature down! As a matter of fact, make sure you black out the house before you go to work for the day and come home to a much cooler abode!
• With school shopping and dorm room decorating to worry about, go first to our great local resale shops! Save money and go vintage!

This is the season of the garage sale. Have you had yours, yet? Well, if you’re planning to clean house and make some extra dough before the fall hits, there’s some great greener choices you can make for the big sale day. Don’t bother tagging everything. Instead appoint price point tables where everything on the table or in the box is a certain price. You’ll save time, money and materials not making out all those individual tags. Clothing is harder to price because we’re often driven by either sentimentality or the original price and quality of the garment when we’re assigning a price. But think of it this way, they’ll probably talk you down, anyway, so just price it to sell! Remember your intentions are to clean house, not take a Disney Cruise with your earnings. Finally, what to do with what doesn’t sell. Don’t take it back in the house, whatever you do! Instead, take it from the tables to the trunk of your car. Then, the next time you’re in the area of your local resale shop, just drop it all off! For a greener garage sale, it’s the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!