This post comes from partner blog Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
We live in a disposable society. We've gotten so used to everything being so cheap that we often think about replacement before we think about refurbishment. That's great for companies but bad for our budgets and our environment.
I experienced this firsthand a month ago when I pulled out my coffeemaker to make a cup of coffee.
About a year or two ago I took advantage of a Gevalia free coffeemaker offer that gave me two little bags of Gevalia coffee, a travel mug, and a 12-cup programmable coffeemaker for only $5. It was the first coffeemaker I had seen that used little cone-shaped coffee filters, and I thought they were a custom shape you had to buy from Gevalia.
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