Archive for May 14th, 2008
May 14th, 2008
… after a good 10 or 15 years. when the cracks make it unusable, i’ll have to find a nonplastic alternative. maybe a wicker one like my daughter has. found this one on amazon.
i have tried to be more eco-smart about doing laundry. i make sure i have full loads, always wash in cold (except sheets… allergy problems!) and buy the condensed versions of tide.
my drycleaning is a whole other story. now that i’m a mom, i don’t iron. it’s my time-saving choice. but at least i’ve been buying the washable wool suits from the limited. they are awesome.
May 14th, 2008
i know that next to toys, packaging for kids food is a plastic challenge. even if you tried to avoid it all on your own, your children still will bring stuff home. the snack mix in bag is from family. the fruit rollup is from the bus driver’s assistant. and the goldfish in an evil plastic bowl? well, those are my fault. but i’ve reused those little bowls with lids for a long time. they do well in the dishwasher.
May 14th, 2008
i told you in the beginning why i’m doing this “week without buying plastic experiment,” which has been easy so far since most of my buying won’t be until the weekend. (all i’ve done is gas up my non-v6, non-4-wheel-drive toyota rav-4 before the price went up to $3.95. it gets great mileage.)
but why am i really doing this? because i couldn’t find a reporter to do it and my assistant rockford woman editor shelley hendricks egged me on. she also told me i needed my picture on the blog, so here we both are, from her wedding day 2 years ago. that’s what she gets for telling me that!
another reason i’ve tried to be smarter about the environment is my children, of course. so it’s appropriate that i started this thing the day after mother’s day (mine was great, as you can see below).
May 14th, 2008
i have enough toys in my house that i could avoid buying any for a long time. in fact, i spent a chunk of a recent saturday just cleaning and organizing the. naturally, a bunch of them are made of plastic.
picture 1: messy room. yep. i think every mom has come home to this.
picture 2: baby doll things. made of plastic. even their container is plastic.
picture 3: a girly favorite: littlest pet shop. one of many plastic toys that hurt your foot when you step on them in the dark.
one plaything that is not plastic? the dora table. wood.
