I love our homemade laundry detergent!

I just used up the last of our homemade laundry detergent, but was able to make a whole new batch before the small load I put in the washer was even done. It took me less than 10 minutes to make the new batch. Our original method for making our homemade laundry detergent was hand-grating a bar of soap and then mixing it with borax and baking soda. While this was fun and quite medatative, it was also very time consuming. My new method…throw it all in the food processor! I use the food processor grater first for the bar [Continue Reading...]

Consuming Less Stuff

First, I want to give a big shout out to Beth Terry (FakePlasticFish.com) and her post, Earth Day 2010: Buying Green vs. Being Green.  In it, she talks about a subject I have come to feel strongly about – that consuming more than we need is not good for the planet, whether the products are considered eco-friendly or not.  I know that being a consumer is linked with being patriotic in the U.S., but that seems like an outdated and unworkable mindset to me.  I don’t want to be called a consumer.  I’m so much more than what I buy. [Continue Reading...]

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