What do you do with the newspapers?

[kristinnm]

I'm thinking about saving money on firewood this year by making newspaper fire logs to make the wood pile last longer!

If you buy extra newspapers for the coupons, what do you do with all of that newspaper??

Anyone else make fire logs? How well do they work?

[diztentbe]

I give them to the local nursing home when I visit my mil on sunday mornings, the residents love getting the papers to look at.

[Rene S]

We recycle most of them; the city gets the revenue from that, and we do our part to recycle. We also save some for washing windows. They work great!

[everprincess]

Use them at work for wrapping. The slimmy stuff goes to the recycle center.

[CW&M Mom]

No recycling here at all. Nothing . Nada. They go in the trash. We live in a very rural area. Wish to heck they had recycling.

[jennsvs]

I mostly recycle them. Several places here have the paper recycling dumpsters. I keep some for window washing also. Newspaper just does a better job. I also keep some to line the bottom of my trash bags. I have found that trash bags are getting thinner and thinner. Most of them leak (even with the leak guard). I put a layer or two of newspapers down in the bag first to help soak up anything that may leak.

[jhfoto]

Recycle. Our schools have the dumpsters in their parking lots, so I put in those so the school gets the money.

[ILv2Shop]

Use it for cage liner for the bird.

[tammyinwv]

My local vet gets mine. I think they use them to line their cages with.
Tammy

[Chrysalis101]

I do jigsaw puzzles for friends (they often give me the ones they can't do). When the puzzle is complete, I break it up into 6-9 large pieces (anyone can do a 9 piece puzzle) and separate them with newspaper so they'll fit back in the box.

We started recycling when we started buying more papers.

You can use them for wrapping paper. Especially if you have a friend who is really "green" or is as cheap as we are. :)

Or, you can make a boat out of them! Check out Mythbusters if you don't know what I'm talking about. :)

Also, my papers come in a plastic bag to protect against the wet/snow/etc. I save those and put my outgoing mail in them on wet days (we have a mail slot and before that we had a really leaky box).