Monday, June 9, 2014

Tear It Up

Hubby Tony is helping to organize an event at church that will take place next month.  Last week he created a registration form and submitted it to the office for publication.  When I opened up the bulletin on Sunday his form was on the bottom half of the left middle page.  I know he hopes everyone will register right away, but just in case the form will also appear on the parish website, and for the next few weeks he'll have extra copies in the office and church vestibule.  He's making it easy for people to sign up!

This afternoon I did a double take when he walked in the door carrying a huge stack of church bulletins.  I asked him what was going on; he said he realized that instead of making copies he could take his form out of the extras that were going to be recycled.  That would save money and be 'green'.

After dinner he left for a meeting.  I was looking for a mindless activity to do, and decided to help him out by tearing out the page he needed.  Soon I had an assembly line going.  First, open the bulletins and lay them face down.  Next, rip the whole thing in half. Put the correct page in one pile and put the rest in another.  Repeat.  I was almost done with the job when Tony got home.  With his help the job was finished quickly.

Now all he has to do is cut each page in half and put the copies in the right places.

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10 comments:

  1. Whew! I was thinking when he came home he was going to say that he DIDN'T want the forms torn out!
    It was abut of work but the money and paper saved was worth it. Good job!

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    1. Yes, it took some effort, but kept me from sitting and messing with my computer for part of the evening :-)

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  2. I'm glad the job got done and in a green way! Good going!

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  3. I hate waste! God job. I have recycle bins all over the park for cans. One of my seasonal campers gathers them and donates the proceeds to help veterans. I have been known to do a little dumpster diving to retrieve bags of beer cans thoughtlessly tossed in the dumpster.

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    1. There's REAL money to be gotten from aluminum cans!

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  4. Good for Tony! Great thinking to save paper (and money!) but tearing the form out of unclaimed bulletins. Go Green!

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    1. Today was trash day. He tossed the paper he didn't need into the recycling bin and set it out. Green from project start to finish!

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    1. I told him he might be setting an example for other parish groups in the future.

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