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Spring into a greener home

Easy eco-friendly ideas to help you spring clean and spring green your home this season.
Vanessa Campisi
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Kiss the clothes dryer goodbye

The but-it’s-winter-and-the-clothes-won’t-dry! excuse is vanishing with each new budding bloom. Until the cold weather’s back, opt to dry your clothes the natural way— with free outdoor solar and wind energy, or using a rack inside your home. You’ll save $20 to $50 a year, easy breezy. Visit Project Laundry List for more reasons to hang it out.

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I hold a clothing swap once a year with all my gal pals. We have light appetizers and beverages and have some fun with games such as door crasher prizes and the best...the clothing mascot; the person chosen has to parade with every piece they picked out. The rest of the clothing goes to homeless shelter where the women there can make good use of clothes who are in need. I usually suggest to ones who have higher end pricey items to try consignment shops first, even an online one like, shopmyclothes.com can help bring in a few dollars. It's now become such an event that my gals circle of friends are calling me and asking to be on a list for next years. If you hold once a year on a regular date (winter is best as it tends to be long and dreary), then it becomes a once a year tradition...not to mention you get clothes from others and you save money too.
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:36.
Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.
Submitted by Jeff9 (guest) on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 23:27.
Thanks for the useful information.
Submitted by Monica (guest) on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 02:29.

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