We all shop for groceries, sometimes two or three times a week –- or more. Now turn those shopping trips into easy cash for your school, and encourage friends to do the same! Just look for the Box Tops logo on hundreds of products like Cheerios®, Hamburger Helper® and Kleenex®, in almost every aisle of the store. All you need to do is clip and send them to your school’s Box Tops coordinator —- each one is worth 10¢ for your school.
Every day, Heidi Conley is turning trash into treasures.
"I'm crazy about recycling," said the Shirley resident, as she sat on her front porch, surrounded by unique fabrics and tote bags made out of recycled trash.
"I buy most of my fabrics and other materials at yard sales, except the big buttons --those are new. I made a bunch of pocketbooks out of dungarees last year," she said. But this year, her passion is making colorful, well-constructed tote bags out of drink pouches.
Conley came into the business of recycling trash following a struggling career in home economics.
Conley grew up in Lunenburg and went to Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster to study home economics. But by the time she graduated, Proposition 2-1/2, which limits tax increases in Massachusetts' municipalities to 2.5 percent, had gone into effect, and home-economics classes were among the first educational programs to be eliminated from school budgets.
