Yes, that’s right – all replacement windows are 50% off for just one day.
*Does not include sashes*
*No other discounts are good on this offer*
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ALL SINKS, TUBS, TOILETS, TANKS, LIDS, whatever plumbing you can find in our yard is 50% off!!!
This is a HUGE SAVINGS
*No other discounts are good with this offer*
Help us clear our yard before winter. Buy the things you need in the yard before they are covered in snow!
Other fun uses for our plumbing stock
Yes that’s a bass guitar!
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Maybe you already have a rain barrel at home, or maybe you need one too. You might know someone with a thirsty garden, or someone who uses rain water as a way to reduce their water and sewer bills. Rain barrels are a way to conserve water and improve our local environment; they divert water away from building foundations, slow water run-off, reduce the amount of water entering storm drain systems, and reduce the amount of pollution that is carried into our waterways. What a great gift!!!
A Buffalo ReUse Rain Barrel includes: a 55 gallon food grade barrel, a hose bibb (spigot), a screened drain cover, all fully assembled, and instructions for installing the rain barrel under your downspout. Once installed, the barrel will hold 55 gallons of high quality rain water, and you can attach a hose and use it for whatever you want.
Save more than 30% on Rain Barrels, only on Black Friday. No other discounts or offers are good with this deal. Get ‘em while they last!
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Normally $8
*No other discounts are good with this offer*
Tin Ceiling looks great in your kitchen and dining area, but it is also great for art projects. Check out these inspiring gift ideas featured on etsy.com. Click on the links to view the seller’s post.
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Did you know there are only 35 shopping days until Christmas? This year flew by, but it’s not too late to get a great gift for that ReSourceful person on your holiday shopping list.
Buffalo ReUse has a lot of great gift ideas for the holidays. Check your list twice and be sure it includes one of these great gifts!
Board Members, Staff, and Friends of Buffalo ReUse are selling Buffalo Dining Cards to raise funds for our great community programs, including the Tool Library, workshops, the gardens, and more.
The deck is complete with (46) $10 Gift Cards to great local restaurants and cafes and (4) Freebie/Discount cards for special deals at local retailers.
For more information, or to place an order, please call Danielle Rovillo at (716) 885-4131 or email
Buffalo ReUse Gifts!!Buffalo ReUse gift cards are a great way to thank that do-it-yourselfer in your family for their hard work, or to help them get that lagging project moving! Grab a gift certificate at The ReSource in any denomination!
You can also give the gift of membership! If you know someone who loves Buffalo ReUse, needs access to resources, or maybe could use access to an extra tool or two, give them the gift of membership.
Buffalo ReUse members get a 15% discount on the last Thursday of each month. (This month the discount day is the day after Thanksgiving).
You can also give a gift membership to the Tool Library. Tool Library members get access to hundreds of garden and home repair tools at two locations – one here at our office behind The ReSource and one at PUSH Buffalo.
Visit the ReSource for more info or contact Danielle at (716) 885-4131
Market America!!We always recommend you shop local, but we all know some of us prefer to shop in our jammies and avoid the lines. If you do cybershop, please consider Market America for your next purchase. If you become a preferred customer for Buffalo ReUse, you earn cashback for shopping with us, and we earn cash for providing this great shopping arena to you! Market America has connections with many of the places you already shop – including Target, Sears, Barnes and Noble, Tiger Direct, eBay, and many many more.
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Buffalo ReUse is proud to announce Black Friday One-Day Only Deals!!
If you are working on a home renovation project, stay tuned to our blog. We will post a new deal each day starting Monday. All deals are for BLACK FRIDAY – the day after Thanksgiving. Don’t worrry, you won’t have to get up at 4am to get in line – we have plenty of stock and we don’t even open until 10am. You can sleep off all that tryptophan before heading to the ReSource for these super sweet deals!!
First and foremost – we are offering our Monthly Member Discount to everyone on Black Friday! Be sure to mention this ad to get your 15% off. We will also have door-busting specials in true Black Friday style that are sure to give you that home repair project “itch”.
There will be four great door-busting deals. Here are some hints:
1.) Planeteers love this big blue buddy
2.) Cat on a hot ________
3.) This item only seats one
4.) You make a better door than a _____________
We will announce one deal each morning, so check back Monday for more info!!
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Fall is here — leaves are flying and clear plastic bags full of them are piling up at the curbs. Some of those leaves have made their way to our compost piles, thanks to some happy volunteers raking in our neighborhood, and one of our crew members, Brandon, who filled his van full of bags and brought them for us to (re)use. Leaves are great fuel for the compost pile — they’re an excellent source of carbon (see below) to feed your compost pile, bin, or bucket. Having a compost pile reduces the amount of garbage you generate, and using the fallen leaves you rake helps take a bit of the burden off the street sweepers and garbage collectors, providing you with some “black gold” for your garden and good Karma for reusing your waste. Putting compost in your garden soil improves its structure and its ability to hold water, and also provides essential nutrients and beneficial micro-organisms to the soil and the plants you grow in it. Still not convinced that you should start your own compost pile? Wait until you see how easy it is…
Here is the new compost bin we setup at our garden to help us reuse our garden waste and the leaves we have been raking up. The container that you use for a compost setup can be just about anything, or nothing — 5 gallon buckets, straw bales, an old garbage bin with holes drilled in the sides (for air circulation), a circular frame of “chicken wire” (welded wire), or a simple, large, static pile right on the ground. In the picture, we used a forklift pallet and some reclaimed 2×4′s and slats to build a frame, and closed up the front with a bit of welded wire mesh. Every container may have a slightly different process to how you compost in it, but you’ll figure it out as you go. Compost is a great learning experience because of just that — there isn’t an absolutely “right” way to do it, but you learn ways to do it better as you go.
When choosing or building a container, important things to keep in mind are the amount of space you have to work in, the amount of materials you have to work with, air circulation, and where the container will go. If you have, for example, a small upper apartment, you might be better off going with an indoor worm bin or a Bokashi composter. Also, the 3-bucket compost system utilizes three small containers (like 5 gallon buckets) to quickly decompose small amounts of waste at a time in a small space — and it’s especially helpful in winter.
Compost is the product of nature’s decomposition process. You can make it scientific or simple. Bacteria, mold, and fungi break down waste with a little help from their friends — the worms. As they break down the materials, it consumes oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, creating heat and releasing water. Having a good balance of oxygen, moisture, carbon-rich and nitrogen-rich materials creates an ideal atmosphere for the beneficial bacteria and other decomposers hard at work making your compost. Learning how to get that balance is part of the experience. It’s not completely necessary (anything will break down over time), but it helps reduce odors, speeds up the process and makes a better product.
When you begin your pile, and while you build it, try to balance the kinds of ingredients you put into it by adding a layer of one when you add the other. If you put a layer of kitchen scraps in your bin (primarily “greens”), put a layer of leaves or shredded paper or wood chips (“browns”) to even it out. You can get very technical, but you don’t have to — it’s your compost pile. Compost 101 has a good article to reference for carbon-rich and nitrogen-rich materials. They have a very rigid, technical approach to balancing the carbon to nitrogen ratio (25:1 C:N) — which is a bit over-complicated for the beginner — but is helpful to think about. They also have some great tips to consider as well.
There are two types of ingredients for your compost: browns and greens (or carbon-rich and nitrogen-rich). Browns include: paper, ashes, cardboard, cornstalks, leaves, and wood chips. Greens include: grass clippings, garden waste, coffee grounds, vegetable scraps, and weeds. See the link above or google for a more complete list. AVOID Adding: meat scraps or bones, sawdust from treated woods, grease or fatty foods, domesticated animal feces, clippings from chemically treated lawns, etc. Think about what you add to your pile before you add it.
Aeration and moisture are the only other elements that you may have to provide, depending on how you establish your compost system and how you maintain it. If you purchase a bin composter, or build one from a old garbage can, you may need to turn it every now and then to give it some air. If you build a large static pile, you may only turn it over once or twice. If you add too much nitrogen-rich materials, you might end up with a wet, stinky mess — and too much carbon leaves your pile dry and cold. My suggestion is to keep it simple: start small and add a little bit of brown every time you add a little green, and experiment with different kinds of compost techniques to learn how the materials work. As your experience grows, so will your pile (and vise versa).
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Thanks to a great program from Planet Green, Buffalo ReUSE is raising funds AND helping the planet with a new recycling initiative.
We now recycle empty inkjet cartridges and old cell phones at The ReSource!! Please bring old inkjet cartridges and cell phones to our brown recycling box on your next shopping trip. When you recycle these items at The ReSource, Planet Green gives us cash for our community programs!
When you buy Planet Green recycled cartridges through our web portal, everyone wins!!
Buffalo ReUse looking into expanding this recycling and fundraising effort. If you know an affordable way to recycle batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and other materials that are difficult to dispose of, please let us know!
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