HOW I SAVED $156

In the city where we live, curbside trash pick up is every week. There are seven people in our family, and we create trash! The cost for this service is just the cost of the bags. They will only pick up certain bags and these must be purchased at a rate of $15.51 for a package of ten bags.
For the purpose of this illustration, I will round the cost of the bags to $1.50 each. Our family filled about three bags per week, for a cost of $4.50 per week. Multiplied by 52 weeks adds up to $234 per year.
Then, we found out that our community had a local recycling center. We can take cardboard, newspaper, glossy paper (like magazines, catalogs and much of the junk mail), metal, plastic and glass).
Now, honestly, we did not put a lot of effort into this project and still do not recycle every possible item that we could, but we did manage to set aside enough recyclable items each week to bring our average down to one bag per week. That's $1.50 multiplied by 52 weeks, for a total cost of $78 per year for trash removal.
$234 that we were spending minus the $78 we are currently spending equals a savings of
drumroll please!
$156 per year.

Corinne Johnson is a Christian homeschooling mother to five and a help meet to her husband Don, as well as the author of Vacation Education Books. Learn more at www.vacationeducationbooks.net