Are You Doing the Reuse Challenge Yet?

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Aladdin. All opinions are 100% mine.

If you are not doing the Reuse Challenge yet, you can begin right now. When you  Do The Reuse Challenge, you, your family and friends  will doing a 30-day challenge to give up those water bottles, plastic cups and all those food containers. In just this year alone, there have been more than enough water bottles, to fill over 840,000 school buses. Now, as much as we  love our bottled waters, there are alternatives to all this wasteful plastic use.

Sadly, there is seven million barrels of oil, in American, used to produce the disposable bottles Americans go through in one year. In the United States alone, there are over 50 billion disposable water bottles being used per year. That is 137,000 per day and 1,585 per second. It costs about $165 a year to make drip coffee at home versus $636 to buy drip coffee at your local café. So, not only are you saving money by making coffee at home, you are not using all those cups either.

Unless we change our habits, there will be 23 billion paper coffee cups thrown out in 2010. Nine dollars will generally cover a decent lunch out. If you buy rather than pack a lunch five days a week, you shell out about $2,350 a year.

There an online store you can go to, Aladdin, where you can kick that plastic habit and begin to do the reuse challenge. It is so easy and will catch on quickly too. When looking for reusable water bottles, there are many colors, shapes and designs to choose from. If you want to drink it hot, there are various cups and mugs to look at and choose from. There are Mugs and Travel Mugs, Desktop Mugs and Vacuum Mugs too. If you drink more cold drinks that hot, you can also look at the drink it cold cups. There is a Go-to-Tumbler, Clutch Water Bottle, Clean and Pure Water, Water Pitcher and Lid and so much more.

Did you know that you will save lots of money packing a lunch for work and or school too? If saving me is what you are seeking, then think about putting that  extra $2,000 in your saving account or wallet. There are over 12 designs and shapes you can look at, choose and use everyday on the Aladdin website.

Finally, you can now "LIKE" Aladdin on Facebook too. Facebook is the place to be these days and now you can follow Aladdin, with your family and friends, on Facebook too.

My Homemade Chocolate Coffee Spoons

When I was looking online for more chocolate molds, I saw these Chocolate Coffee Spoon Molds. Well, I just had to purchase them. I actually purchased two molds. Right now, I am just using one mold.

I am finding out that it takes a lot of chocolate or colored vanilla to make any candy mold. Even though it takes a lot, I still like doing this as it is easy and fun. I love giving them as gifts or for me and my family to eat a home.

Here are photos of my making the Chocolate Coffee Spoons.

Compare Prices When You Design Your Own Conservatory

If you love being outdoors, without really being outdoors, then you need a Conservatory. Did you know that conservatories give your home not only an extra room, but allow you, your family and friends to sit in the sun without getting burned or overheated? Conservatories are an excellent addition to any home. For one thing, they are that extra room you always wanted for reading, resting, playing games, throwing a party or anything you would utilize a conservatory for. Perhaps you would like a green room, well a conservatory can be used part for a green room and part for your everyday living and entertaining.

There are several styles to choose from when making your decision to add a conservatory to your home. There is the Victorian 3 Facet, Victorian 5 Facet, Edwardian, Gable Ended, P Shaped, Lean To and Double Hipped Conservatories. Any of these conservatory styles allow you to have glass used for a Dwarf Wall, Full Height Glass or Full Height Raised Panels.

The above styles are already made, or prefabricated, for you. If none of these styles are what you are looking for, you can create your own. When you create your own style or look, you can design that online. It is fun and easy when you create your own DIY conservatories because this can be done online. Right now, you can put together your own conservatory style and get a quote on the particular style you desire.

For the specifications you want, all you have to do is type in the approximate dimensions like width and projection wall in feet or metres. The building material you can use is either PVC or Hardwood. The colours you can choose from are white, cream, light oak or rosewood. With any of these colours, they are sure to compliment the colour or style of your home. Along with the choosing your own dimensions, you can look at and choose the base style like the 600mm Dwarf Wall, Full Height Glass and Glass with Raised Panels. These are the three main base styles you can choose from and any one of these will be an excellent design option for your added room.

Once you have chosen the style and base for the conservatory, you can decide what the roof and door should look like. The roof can have ventilation, or not, have one or two manual vents or one or two electric vents. If you are not sure, yet, that can be decided at a later date. As for the doors, you can choose to have the door or doors in the front, left hand side, right hand side or if you are not sure, this too can be decided later. The positions of these doors would be if you were looking at the front of the conservatory.

When you have finally put together your conservatory with the design, style, base, roof and door for you design, the next step of filling in the online quote form. All you have to do is type in your name, address, town or city, country, postal code, email address and phone number. The best thing about getting your quote online is you save up to 35% when you compare conservatory prices online. The quote you receive will be from an expert in the field of building conservatories as well.