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[fancyfingers]

I no longer get the newspaper delivered, or even purchase it. Cancelled the subscription 5 years ago when the paper person wouldn't deliver my paper! I do not feel when you are paying for your newspaper to be delivered to ask for it to atleast be at your house. Anyhoo, when I did get the paper, I would turn the newspapers into firelogs and use them in the fireplace. Does anyone make firelogs to use?

[serahki]

I might if I had a fireplace. This is a very neat idea. We always stored our newspaper in a separate tote bin from the trash out in the garage. I don't get the newspaper anymore either. I move around a lot, so my address is never the same and I hate having to deal with the hassle of constantly changing it with the newspaper company. I usually just get a copy of the newspaper when I visit the library or local coffee shops.

[fancyfingers]

I get most of the news about my city/state off the internet now. I do miss sitting with my newspaper, reading it, page by page, every word! It was like a daily treat. My dad would take hours reading the paper. I did too. I do not read fiction, I thought what I read in the daily papers was enough! LOL

[Sandra Piddock]

In Spain, newspapers in English are very expensive, although there are a number of free papers, so we don't go without the news here and in the UK. I've been investigating the option of making fire logs - we have an open fire which we light in the winter - and I've had some good feedback. I'm going to try it this year. We already save newspapers in winter to help light the fire, but if I made logs, we could build up a stock through the year.

[zararina]

The last time I bought a newspaper was several years ago, maybe more or less five years.
We could sell newspaper and other papers here in a junk shop and then those will be recycled. I remember doing a small basket before out of newspaper.

[QuatreHiead]

I've also seen that newspaper can be used in the garden as well. For example as mulch or to place over top of the plants in the winter to help insulate them from the cold. I've never really had much of a garden, but I wondered how well this works? The one I am most curious about was if using the newspaper instead of black plastic/tarp to keep weed growth down between plants works well or not.

I'm sure there are tons of other uses. We always kept newspaper in the home to line the cat litter box and area to contain mess. Way back when of course we made a lot of different paper mache items from newspaper. My personal favorite was to use newspaper as wrapping paper for gifts in the holiday season instead of purchasing giftwrap. Now this is how I recycle most of my newspaper and old work throughout the year. If it is a really special occassion I usually can decorate the outside as well a little using the back of flyers etc.

[Sugarhill]

Outside of using newspaper to wrap up various things, the only thing I would do it just make sure that it was in the correct recycling bin. I don't get the newspaper where I live now, but back home, it was something about the paper that I bought it more often than I didn't. They had enough sections that I enjoyed reading that it made it worthwhile.

[dconklin]

We haven't subscribed to the newspaper in a long time.  We do sometimes buy the Sunday paper for the coupons and other things, but otherwise I read our paper online.  Tho this is a great idea for saving paper, I am sure it will shut down many local papers as more people read it online.

[ACSAPA]

I still buy the Sunday paper for the coupons, but my supermarket has a deli area where people drink coffee and read the paper, so I just take the coupons out and leave the paper I just bought in the deli area on a table for someone else to read.
The newspaper never makes it home.

[Sugarhill]

One thing that I've noticed in some NYC neighborhoods is the delivery of the Sunday inserts in little bags outside of everyone's buildings. I guess you can say they are saving people from buying the newspaper, but also with the plastic bags they are causing another issue. But, I guess it balances or comes close to balancing out.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

If it wasn't for so many good people recycling newspapers, I wouldn't have all the wonderful blown-in insulation I have
in my walls. Bales and bales of shredded newspapers were used, and the difference is heat/cold is tremendous.
It's saved me a lot of money and emissions to the air.

[ashmonn]

I don't make fire logs, however I go use the news paper to do paper mache projects. I also use then to clean my windows, because they do a really good job. I just try to make sure I do something creative with them, before discarding them into the recycling bin.

[MyDigitalpoint]

I used newspapers as fire logs about a decade ago, before an anti-pollution regulation took place, because they said burning paper and wood was damaging the earth's ozone layer.

Either way, I later found that it was more profitable pile newspaper up and sell it to the recycling center.

[steph84]

We still get the paper because my boyfriend loves the way it feels to read it and have it in hand. He likes reading it while drinking his coffee and it's such a daily ritual for so many people that I don't think print would ever go out of style. I always stack and recycle my paper. My mom told me that when she was poor they would use it to wash their windows!

[Hardison]

Newspapers were the first thing I recycled. Our school had newspaper drives. I can remember stacks and stacks of newspaper. I think the money went back to the school.

It been awhile since I had a newspaper delivered. I read it at the library or at Starbucks. But when I did, I just took my paper to the recycler. I never made firelogs.

[FamilyTreeClimber]

Hardison, that brings back memories.  I can remember bringing in newspapers to elementary school for the newspaper drives.  That was back in the 1970s.

I read the newspaper every day.  It's what I do with breakfast.  I've tried a digital newspaper but it's too cumbersome trying to click  around and eat at the same time.  By the time I get an article sized to where I can read it, I don't care anymore.

I do recycle the newspaper.  I use it to line the green/compost bin as sometimes food scraps can get gross in the bin.  If I need packaging material for shipping I stuff the box with newspaper.  It's great for stuff like that.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

I've been recycling papers (of all kinds) for a long time, and what I've noticed lately is the lack of newspapers.
Not as many people are taking the papers, so that's less to recycle.

[fancyfingers]

ashmonn, on 25 July 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

I don't make fire logs, however I go use the news paper to do paper mache projects. I also use then to clean my windows, because they do a really good job. I just try to make sure I do something creative with them, before discarding them into the recycling bin.

Ashmonn, I would love to see some of the paper mache projects you do, if you don't mind sharing! I think it would be awesome to see some of your work. Any time someone can create something from items that would be normally tossed, I feel it should be aknowledged.

[Hardison]

FamilyTreeClimber, on 26 July 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

Hardison, that brings back memories.  I can remember bringing in newspapers to elementary school for the newspaper drives.  That was back in the 1970s.

Yes, it was in the 70's. Funny how a simple statement can bring back childhood memories.

Shortpoet-GTD, on 27 July 2012 - 02:38 AM, said:

I've been recycling papers (of all kinds) for a long time, and what I've noticed lately is the lack of newspapers.
Not as many people are taking the papers, so that's less to recycle.

Newspapers are struggling all across the country. It's not just newspapers. I read this week that Newsweek will have to go digital if its want to survive. It's losing money hand over fist. It's a bit sad as it was the first subscription news magazine. In college, I was one of the only students to have a subscription at my dorm.

[Sugarhill]

Girl, I had a subscription to USA Today in college and had to get the supervisor to stop the guy from reading my newspaper before he put it in my box! I hate reading a previously read newspaper. He didn't get mad though, apparently, he felt the same way that's why he never asked me to bring it back when I was done. He loved all of my magazines.