Going Green... Is everyone doing it?

[kidsinstl]

Are you doing anything to live more 'green'? Share... Big Things... Small things.... We want to know.

[Stayathomemommy]

I am getting into this Living Green, but starting with baby steps. I have changed out all my light bulbs, I now iron with a water instead of starch and I recycle.

[cleansweeping]

Besides recycling, participating in a kids clothes hand-me-down network, reusing odd items in crafts or other uses, recycling yard waste, converting the bulbs in the house (which, of course, the new bulbs can cause migraines they have discovered!), we have started using cloth bags. A lot of stores sell their own. So, I am buying a few from each store that sells them that we visit, so that we have a collection from different places. What is so funny is I remember doing this when I was in college and when I came back to St. Louis in 1990. Everyone looked at me (I felt) and thought I was a freak. Now it is the trendy thing to do; I guess because we have to BUY the bags! Funny how time marches on and how things change!

[Stayathomemommy]

Wow.. I have not heard the news about the bulbs causing Migraines. Do you know anyone this really happened to? I have them all over my house. I like the idea of the cloth bags. I go to aldi's alot so I reuse their bags, but I just use plastic at other stores. How do you recycle your yard waste? Our yard is huge...

[cleansweeping]

Regarding the bulbs - It was on CNN Headline News this spring. My husband and I caught it at 5:30am. I have migraines so anything related to this topic i perk up. I have been getting more headaches lately, but I don't know if mine are directly related to the bulbs, at the moment.

Our community collects all recyclables and yard waste, which is very nice, I have to admit! We were given a 65 gallon receptacle to use. Glad to say we fill it up half way or more each week.

[mse2yu]

If somebody in your house hold wants a drink, make them use the same cup. Instead of having a sink full of dishes. You have to eat two or three times day, you just wash out what you used and reuse it all day long. It is the best, to getting everybody to pitch in on the dish washing. Get a liquid dishwashing
scrubber where you put, the liquid in the handle and all you have to do is wet the dish, that needs to be washed. Get those teenagers to pitch in on a sly. Hint, Hint!!

[Stayathomemommy]

I actually read somewhere that it is more water efficient to use the dish washer than to hand wash all your dishes. Not sure if this is true. But it would make me feel better about my dishwasher.