Antifreeze jacket, $109.83, REI.com
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The Daily Deal for January 3, 2008Did you resolve to be warmer in the new year? If you did, and you also resolved to be more "eco-senstive," REI has the jacket for you. The cushy, down-insulated Antifreeze jacket has a shell made of 88% recycled materials, fends off rain showers and snow, and is windproof to 60 MPH. It'll keep you safe in a storm and you can listen to your iPod through the handy headphone portal.
The jacket is on sale for $109.83, off its regular price of $159.
Every year in November, my friend Larissa and I start rifling through our bags of accidentally-felted sweaters, holey knitwear, and garments who have not stood up to our four little boys, and we get out our scissors and sewing machines and go crazy. We're getting ready for an all-recycled craft bazaar, and we love figuring out new ways to (literally) turn our trash into cash. Sometimes we raid our relatives' and friends' closets, too. Here's some of the ways we've found to make useful, beautiful items out of cast-offs.
