It’s Not Easy Being Green
Daphne & I celebrated Earth Day by driving all over town, wasting gas and idling in traffic on 280. We are just doing our part to save the planet.
Actually we did leave the A/C off for most of the day. I say most of the day because when it got to be 77 degrees inside the house I couldn’t stand it anymore. We normally keep it warm (74-76) in the house over the summer, but 77 is my breaking point. I also used my new Charlie’s Soap (for the laundry). It’s a vegetable based, biodegradable cleaner. I don’t think our towels have ever been more clean. And it gets out poop, even says so on the bottle. Which is handy with Princess Poop-A-Lot. And again, I contemplated buying a few cloth diapers. Currently our dryer is on the fritz, so I think I’ll wait. We’ve already had our fridge break down, now the dryer (I think it’s the heating element), and usually these things come in threes. I predict the A/C compressor will be next. Why didn’t these things break down last year, when I was employed???
I swear I’ve seen a million blog posts today with environmentally friendly green topics. I saved a few, in particular ones about making your own cleaning products. Here’s another one I might actually try: fusing together your plastic bags. I think I might do this and sew up a few reusable shopping totes. Which might come in handy when we go CAMPING.
Yep, me… camping. I mentioned a few days ago that Chris really needed to use his camping equipment. We have a tent, kayak, portable stove, sleeping bags.. all that junk. Tonight he’s headed to Whole Foods to hear a presentation from Fresh Air Family and Mountain High Outfitters about camping locally with kids. Lord help me. I told Chris I would be glad to go camping as long as it wasn’t too hot and we had access to showers and toilets. He just laughed and told me that wasn’t camping. What do you mean it’s not camping? It’s not like we are setting up camp in our front yard. I’m not an outdoor girl. The last time I attempted to try to bond with Chris and enjoy nature was an afternoon spent hiking in Feb 2007. Little did I know this would involve fording a river and then climbing up a steep path. I was pregnant at the time. Sucked. But I don’t want Daphne to be as prissy as I am, so I’m going to suck up my hatred of the outdoors and irrational fear of tree filled spaces (I’ve watched way too many Friday the 13th/camp killing movies, plus Blair Witch) and start planning a camping menu.
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http://www.thanksmama.com/ Hey check this site out for the cloth diapers.. I was actually looking at that too the other day for no reason. Seems like a person could save a fortune if the baby doesn’t grow out of it too quickly.
Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.
Chris is totally not on board with the cloth diaper thing. It would be much cheaper, and since we want to have another kid soon that’s a lot of $$ on disposable diapers. We’ll see. I’ve been wanting to buy a few just to try them out, but there are so many kinds. It’s hard to know what to get.
Well they have sample sets that have a couple of different kinds to try. The sets have enough diapers for daily laundering or everyother day laundering. Why is Chris not on board? They make them super easy now adays. There is even have a biodegradable liner you can buy that holds all of the solid material and you can flush it so you don’t have to scrape. Eww! That sounded gross to just write!
I think it’s the ick factor. You know his weak stomach.