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Around the House
By Times Staff, Wires
Published September 15, 2007
Put an old soda bottle to good use
Support recycling and feed your feathered friends. You can do
both with the TerraCycle Bird Feeder,which is made from a reused
2-liter soda bottle with a recycled plastic base. It comes filled
with a wild bird seed mix. Just hang the bottle from a tree and it's
chow time. It's $4.99, at many Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Target
stores. (The manufacturers are the same people who sell a fertilizer
made from worm poop packed in recycled soda bottles.) See the video,
learn more and find a retailer at http://www.terracycle.com/.
Treasure hunt in Tampa
The attic sale sponsored by local members of the American Society
of Interior Designers continues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at
Artie's Moving, an air-conditioned warehouse at 5005 N Howard Ave.,
Tampa. The designers have cleaned out their storerooms of rugs,
furniture, lighting, accessories, silk plants, all manner of
treasures. See what bargains you can unearth. Proceeds benefit
programs for artistically gifted children in Hillsborough and
Pinellas counties.
Stop dirt at the doorway
Fifty years ago homes had one or two entrance doors. Now they
have at least four. Which means mud and dirt get tracked in the
house from more directions, and you need more doormats. Form &
Function doormats by Clean Machine are made of rubber and
polyethylene and designed with thousands of plastic "blades" to
scrape shoes clean, then capture dirt beneath the surface so it
isn't tracked into the house. The mats, in architectural styles and
contemporary designs, are priced from $12.99 to $24.99 and are
available at some Ace Hardware and True Value stores. The branch mat
pictured is 20 x 36 inches.
[Last modified September 13, 2007, 15:38:27]
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