green week

Happy Green Week! The weather this week has made it easy to make a few changes. We have had the windows open and used no heat. I love it and wish it could be 70 and breezy every day. We have been grilling instead of cooking inside and our t.v watching is very minimal.

We started making more of an effort last Fall. For one thing, we switched to more environmentally friendly detergents, hand soap and cleaning products. These changes are sometimes difficult for N as he is somewhat of a germ-o-phobe. I often find that he uses obscene amounts of the cleaning products (defeating the purpose a little).

He has also been known to throw clothing away if he felt it was compromised in the cleanliness dept. - not so green. I, however, retrieved it and took it straight to the dry cleaners also not so green, but better than filling the earth with trash.

In order to make up for some of his not- so- green habits, he did replace the light bulbs in our house, we did away with saran wrap and plastic bags. He also bought me the supplies to grow my own tea leaves. We'll see how this goes.

This one did seem a bit crazy to me, but I managed to adjust, we don't use the dryer nearly as much. My main reason was not to conserve energy, but to conserve our clothing. I am picky about socks and it seemed as though mine were getting thinner after one season and they weren't cheap ones. After throwing too many away, I started hanging them to dry and eventually did this with many other things. It's amazing how much the dryer wears the fabric because I have noticed a huge difference.

I know we have a long way to go, but I do feel a lot less wasteful and have saved money.