Earth Day Tip: Host a "Nostalgia Night"

Don't you just love that scene in "Sex & the City: The Movie" in which our favorite gang of fashionistas get together at Carrie's apartment for an informal fashion show of Carrie's best-known ensembles throughout the years?

Well, if you want to create the fun for yourself, host your own "Nostalgia Night": Invite your friends over and ask them to bring at least 5 outfits they are looking to phase out of their closets, but this time, instead of boxing your things up to move them to a swanky apartment as Carrie does, give them to charity instead.

Here in Vermont, we have a very cool organization called the Clothing Exchange which was born in 2001, when a group of 15 fashion-conscious, community-minded women got together in Burlington, Vermont to swap the clothes they once loved, but rarely ever wore.

That first swap they recognized an opportunity to turn the gathering into a force for social change.

Now, they host an annual event in a large space in Burlington. In 2008, more than 450 women shopped The Burlington Clothes Exchange and helped raise a record $32,000. Now that's a reason to pop open a bottle of champagne!