I keep a pad of paper nearby me to jot down any email addresses in magazines I'm reading that sound interesting to look up. This also works for books that magazines list for reading.
I use the water that I drain off my aquarium on indoor plants instead of chemical fertilizer. When a tank needs to be competely stripped down, I recycle the aquarium gravel into the bottom of indoor pots to enhance drainage. During the summer months, I can use the water from the aquarium outside on my herb garden for organic fertilization and watering. Why pay for expensive fish emulsion, when you can grow your own?
In the summer when the black flies and mosquitoes are at their worst, I tie a dryer sheet through my dog's collar to help repel the bugs. We do a lot of camping and other outdoor stuff, and it seems to help.
When going through family pictures with an elderly parent, ask them if you can note on the back who is in the picture, the date, place and occasion. Don't wait until they have passed away -- the time you take today is priceless later!
For a quick and FUN skit, to liven up a party, scout meeting or other get-together, ask for five to ten volunteers. Give each volunteer two white SCOTT napkins and everyone else, one SCOTT napkin. The volunteers place their two napkins on the floor and pretend they are ice skating. After a minute or two, have everyone watching crumple their napkins into a "snowball" for a snowball fight. Of course the "snowballs" can be re-thrown.
Use a heavy-duty freezer bag, and instead of filling it with plain water, make Kool-aid and freeze it. When it thaws in your cooler, you have an instant drink.
Here's an easy paper project that's fun to do with your kids! (Recycle, recycle!) For a drum even the smallest child can safely and easily play, decorate an empty coffee can with construction paper. (Different size cans produce different sounds, so try a variety.) Empty round oatmeal containers and potato chip tubes work well too. Now wrap 2 empty Scotts paper towel rolls for drumsticks and let your toddler go to town. They're not as annoying as the expensive sets at the toy store.
Here's an easy kid's project! Collect 3 empty SCOTT Towel rolls and 2 empty SCOTT Tissue rolls. Cut them in various lengths and let your child decorate them with construction paper, tape, crayons, markers or pictures from magazines. (I printed out family photos on my copier for my grandson to glue onto the tubes.) Tie them close together on a pipe cleaner circle with colorful yarn, and you have a beautiful wind chime!