In honor of Earth Day, I thought that it would be fitting to tell everyone about our recent furniture upgrade, or the ultimate reduce, reuse, recycle story!  You see, just a few weeks ago, my family and I were coming home from a night out on the town (actually, we had just went to the pizza buffet for dinner), when we were driving through our neighborhood around dusk.  Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the trash of a distant neighbor sitting out on the curb, ready for pickup the next morning.  Lo and behold, there were two chairs there.  Now, these chairs looked pretty darn nice while I was driving by at about 30 mph, and so I told my husband that we needed to go back for a better look.  It was our lucky day, for I saw that the two chairs the neighbors had set out as trash were actually nicer than the old purple recliner that currently sat in our living room!

This recliner was one of the few possessions that my husband brought with him when we moved into our house almost four years ago and to say it was an eyesore was an understatement.  This recliner had actually been given to him by one of his best friends from his hometown and I believe that his friend had been given it from someone else as well.  It had had an illustrious career, having survived college, life after college, married life, parenting, etc., but now as I saw that bright, shiny "new" chair sitting on my neighbor's curb, I knew it was finally the end of an era...the purple recliner was finally dead.  Long live the new patterned recliner!  (At least until Riley gets older and we can finally get some brand new living room furniture!  :))

In honor of Earth Day, what's your best reduce, reuse, recycle story?