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What was the hardest thing to give up when you went green?
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For me, it's Clorox wipes in the green (colore) tub. I have like five left in the bottom of a tub and I'm using them sparingly. lol I love the smell of them the most. And they do a decent job of cleaning up.
I must say that I love our new Scotch Brite Greener Clean sponges (we gave up paper towels a while back), though. Now we just need to find a great green cleaning product for countertops, sinks, etc.
Re: What was the hardest thing to give up when you went green?
Parsley Plus by Earth Friendly products is amazing!
Hardest thing for me is getting DH to be all on board and also cutting down on meat in our diet. Today is our first meatless Monday. And I am skeptical that my soup is turning out.
Meatfree Monday has been super hard. I don't even really know why, but now that I've set a meat free day, DH makes more of an effort to eat meat that day!
Mostly its been getting DH to keep up with things. When he's tried, in a hurry, upstairs, {insert lame excuse here} he can't be bothered to put the paper or cardboard in the recycling bin. He's all for it, but only at his convience.
I am finding the beauty products to be hard. I don't feel there are as many EF options up here as there are for you guys. Also, hello hella expensive.
I am working my way through green cleaners and reviewing them in my blog if you are interested. I have found some that I love love love but most of them I hate. Which I am finding very interesting.
i agree with A&J......i cannot give up my Degree antiperspirant/deodorant. i've tried countless green kinds, and they just don't cut it.
Getting DH on board with the changes can also be a bit of a challenge, but after all his pissing and moaning, he usually goes along with it!
So true! We buy about 95% of B's closed used and can't believe the savings. I will walk out of the store with a huge bag that cost me $40 compared to maybe $400 if I had bought new.
We are going to do our basement soon and I am so excited to hit up the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
I don't seem to have a problem holding onto my green habits, but DH only seems to have room in his brain for a handful, and if I add any more, the old ones fall right out of his head
Like if he's doing really well with using hankies, he forgots his reusable shopping bag all the time. Or if he's recycling, he's not composting. I'm like, I want it all! Do it all!
As far as the hardest thing to give up, to be honest I can't think of anything off the top of my head that was "hard." We haven't made our own laundry or dish detergent yet, so I guess that's too hard/I'm too lazy. But it's been easy to buy Method instead of Tide or whatever. Paper towels was easy for me but is still hard for DH, even though I hide them. There are several things I could do better at, like buying used instead of new, but overall I think we do a lot.
Hershey's Syrup, definitely. I guess we didn't do that when we went green. We did it when we went HFCS free. Thank goodness ladies here suggested Midnight Moo from TJs!
For actual green stuff, I'm going to have to go with dishwasher detergent. I'm just not happy with any of the ones we've tried. And having to handwash annoys me enough that I refuse to try any others until I've forgotten how much the ones we've tried sucked.
I hear ya. We have been trying out different brands and man some really really suck.
When I read the subject line I thought 'I don't miss anything, it's all been easy'. But then when I clicked the post, I realized, yeah, cleaning products. :P The 'green' ones just require a little more elbow grease, which can be daunting, but it's not a big deal.
I do clean a lot of stuff with baking soda, which works where a lot of other things don't.
Otherwise, going green hasn't been about 'giving up' anything. It's been about changing my habits wherever I can and still keep it sustainable. I ride a bike to work most of the time, I don't eat meat, I use cloth shopping bags, I buy cruelty-free cosmetics.