One of the first things we did was buy a water cooler. While it's not as green as I'd like it to be, it's still a large step up from the water bottles we were using. At the same time we bought the water cooler we bought our little recycle thingy... yes, it's a laundry sorter for most people... but it's our official recycle bin. Hey, it looks pretty nice. I think I might do this in list form... it'll be more impressive I think.
*Water cooler instead of bottled water
*Recycle bin, we now only have our garbage emptied about once a month instead of 4 times
*Making our own laundry soap
*Using ok-for-the-environment dishwasher detergent
*Using ok-for-the-environment dish soap
*I wipe the kids' noses and my own nose with burp cloths instead of toilet paper or kleenex
*We have a compost pile
*We are vegetarian
*We use cloth grocery bags
*I re-use our containers from sour cream, cottage cheese, and feta at least once.
*I stopped using Ziplock bags
*I stopped using saran wrap
*We've cut way down on using foil and parchment paper
*I save the bag from cereal boxes to use in place of wax paper
*Logan doesn't take as many baths as he used to (probably 3-5 a week instead of 7-14)
*Josh and I both have re-usable Starbucks cold cups that we use in place of Venti waters... this is pretty huge I think. We would both get one every time we went there, and Josh would bring one home every single day. We would reuse them, but we still probably went through at least 7 per week.
*I save most of my produce bags and use them to wrap our bread in
That's all I can think of for now. If I think of others I might just come and add to this list. :)
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