WALL-E

Have you fallen for Wall-e yet? Zachary and I saw this movie over the weekend. What a sweet, lovable character.

This movie got me thinkin though. Do I do enough to save water, recycle, etc. Our world WILL be different if we don't take care of it. We have changed out plastic grocery bags to the reusable kind, use cleaning rags and not paper towels, recycle almost everything, use natural cleaning products instead of harsh chemicals. Is it enough though? Does everyone think of these things? It's scary to think that most of us go on with our everyday lives not knowing or caring about taking care of our planet.

I hope this movie is making more of us think about helping our planet. Hopefully our grandchildren or great grandchildren will not have to pay for our neglect.

5 Hundred Thousand Uses for Vinegar...

Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating a little. But the uses for vinegar can go ON and ON. In my quest for going GREEN, I've decided to change out my cleaning products. I was tired of the headaches every time I cleaned my bathrooms anyway. So instead of paying of fortune on commercial natural cleaning products I decided to look into the very OLD use of vinegar.

I now use vinegar primarily for cleaning. In fact vinegar can clean and deodorize just about anything in your house. I keep a spray bottle with vinegar in the shower and spray down the doors when I'm finished. Once I was completely out of conditioner and used the vinegar in its place. Yes, you can do that! Everything from floors, appliances, windows, carpet, hair, etc. Cleaning is a breeze. All I need is a spray bottle with half vinegar & half water and my cleaning towels and I'm off. My bathrooms, windows and counters always sparkle.

What, you say that vinegar smells like pickles? However, vinegar doesn't smell after it dries. In fact, there are no lingering smells of any kind.

Here are some more great tips on using vinegar.

http://www.versatilevinegar.org/usesandtips.html

Speaking of going GREEN, I just love these new shopping bags:

They hold more groceries than the plastic bags. I use only 4 bags for grocery shopping because they hold so much. And they are so much easier to carry with over the shoulder straps. Since hearing the devastating effects of plastic bags, I welcome such a handy alternative.

Bad Plastic Bottles...

While I was out shopping today I decided to pick up some new bowls and cups. It seems we just don't have enough or they come up missing all the time. As we were looking at them my husband mentioned the news about plastic bottles containing bisphenol A (BPA) which can cause cancer. So we looked at the bottom of each dish to see if the number "7" was indicated. None of them had the number 7 so we went on our merry way with new cups and bowls.

After we get home I decide to look more into this "health scare" to see if it had any merit. There were numerous articles on the internet about it. Further the numbers "3" & "6" could also carry similar chemicals. So once again I had to check the number on each and every plastic dish in the house. I only found number "2" & "5" and some didn't have a number. I think I may throw those out just to be safe. Anyhow the articles say that numerous baby bottles and sippy cups have the chemical BPA. Could it get any scarier? Canada has already banned this type of plastic and the U.S. is sure to follow.