You can go digital, buy refurbished and swap your way into goodies everyone will love.

Professional salvager can take your equipment and strip it for metal recycling.

Some high-def sets are huge electricity hogs and can use as much as 500 kilowatt hours a year.

Bottled water may not be any different than tap water — except that it's 1,900 times more expensive.

Garbage trucks will compact the living daylights out of whatever goes inside them, making all your home-compacting efforts somewhat irrelevant.