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What are things you and your family do to help go green? Or are planning to start doing? ↓
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| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:17 PM |
we compost most things, we recycle plastic, tins, glass, cardboard and take as much rubbish as we can to the kaup ourselves....
We also try and avoid using plastic carrier bags. And i used to use cloth nappies with sofia. We dont turn lights on during the day...nor the heating. We try to avoid putting the heating on all together as the house is quite big and costs a fortune! lol...Everybody is good at turning lights off as they leave rooms....
We bathe my twins together with sofia, we bath my step sis and my real sis together and the boys shower. (to save water)
Its in EVERYONES best interests to go green...not only does it help the environment but it saves money too. And those big clothtype bags you can get from supermarkets instead of using carrier bags are MUCH easier than plastic ones. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:23 PM |
heres a few things we do
turn off the water while brushing until time to spit...same goes in the kitchen no water running for unessasary reasons.\
the 2 older girls shower together, and Jacob and Emilee shower together
we turn off heat if we can, and lights as well
we have garage sales instead of throwing things out
I want to get canvas bags to shop with....no one does that here in my city yet so they might look at me weird but i might start a trend ya never know ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:27 PM |
aah they are everywhere down here those canvas bags...today I was mobbed by people handing out fridgemagnets and car bumper stickers outside my supermarket saying "Take and old bag shopping" lol
I ebay alot of our stuff....or put it up for the new house. But with clothes i bag them and put them in the attic as I have another little girl who could sure use her big sisters clothes! lol ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:28 PM |
| Oh same here Nicolaa we def. do hand me downs and then cherry girl who comes on here gets alot of the stuff my kids are done with ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:30 PM |
| I have a few canvas bags, but I would need some more, I see them at yard sales all the time for like a quater so....maybe thats what I should do....but it's hard for me I like to do alot of shopping at once for the month and go back as needed to get things such as fresh fruits and veggies and breads milk ect ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:31 PM |
| could you imagine what my cart looks like after ive shopped for a month.......lol i have to make my husband go sometimes so we cab have 2 carts or else i have to make 2-3 trips just for a months worth plus my random trips for parishables ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:33 PM |
one of my old teachers is a close friend of the family....i cook for her children once a week as she's unwell and in return she gives me cookbooks, clothes...and so many little nick nacks which are going to make the next few years MUCH easier.
not last year...but the year before (i think) the South west of england had a hose pipe ban....so alot of those habbits still havent worn off yet! we're still stingy with water. ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:34 PM |
I dread to think what yours looks like!
Lol i live qith quite alot of my family but i keep my food stuffs seperate...we just share basics like bread, butter, milk, yoghurts as we share a fridge.
But i do a bigggggggg shop once a month (as i cant drive i need my boyfriend to take me) and buy tins, biscuits, long life juices etc...really stock up and then a couple of times a week i just pop into the nearest town and buy fresh veg or some meat or something. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:37 PM |
So you have a wtare restriction is what you mean?
We have that to, only aloud to water lawns at certain times of day and only on certain days ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:39 PM |
we used to.....we went from one year having hardly any rain and the resevoirs down south nearly running dry.....to really bad flooding last year!
We dont have water restrictions anymore here. Not sure about elsewhere....but i havent heard anything. ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:40 PM |
| we were banned from using hose pipes in the garden.....so no watering the plants with them...we had to use watering cans...and even then we werent allowed to go nuts, it meant no pools either. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:41 PM |
| oh hose pipes=water hose.....i see in America we call them water hoses ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:45 PM |
ohhhhhhhhh right lol.....water hose sounds weird! lol....
i often wonder why we say stuff different...like if we both speak english...why cant we talk the same?
Even spellings! We spell colour you spell it color, we spell labour, you spell labor, we spell honour you spell honor, etc etc
and different words...like what we call dummies, you call pacifiers. What you call a highway is our Motorway. lol ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:48 PM |
lol i know like nappies=diapers....strange, lol
yes it is weird....i think you all speak proper english?????
and i personally have a hard time understanding ppl from your country we go to vegas once a year and so many tourist we meet there, anyhow i talked to man from england once and felt like a complete idiot when he got up and left kinda irritated w/ me because of the convo barrier...it was so proper and such a strong accent.....i couldn't make out most of what he said and dreaded every time i had to say excuse me or can you repeat that, lol very ackward ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:52 PM |
when i was in america i felt so odd! i felt really vulnerable!! lol....everywhere you go its "OMG! are you from BRITAIN!"? and i was queuing up for some foods and this guy heard me ordering...says "Hey, can I ask you what you call a tv?" and I said "telly" and he burst out laughing at me!
I dont think my voice is THAT british...this past year iv got worse...i sound quite posh these days i must stop it! lol...when people on here have heard my voice they had trouble understanding me...and thought i sounded british.
What you call Jelly...we call Jam...and jelly is something completley different! lol...i think you call it gelatin? ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:53 PM |
| idk how we took the u out of everything, lol you all prob think we sound weird...... ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:53 PM |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:54 PM |
| i know jam is dif from jelly my grandparents used to jar it ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:55 PM |
| hey do you listen to that british singer amy winehouse? ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:56 PM |
What i wanna know is how all those singers sing and you can never detect an accent
keith urban-aussie would never know till he talks
snow patrol-irish i think and same you'd never know
amy winehouse and leona lewis till thay talked you'd never know ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 4:56 PM |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:00 PM |
oh yeah...amy winehouse rocks....she's so tiny but has such a BIG voice...she's just an absolute freak! lol...a mess...the press pick on her so much it's not fair.
Jello! yeah i think thats what you call it ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:01 PM |
yeah....i do think american accents are weird...lol....
i like aussie accents though....one of my old flames moved to australia in the summer...and he's already picking up an accent..aah makes me swoon when i hear him on the phone! lol ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:04 PM |
yeah same here w/ brittney spears but she brings so much on herself, but i think so much is exagerated as it makes good news.
yes i like amy's music but the hair and eyeliner.....the hair i could maybe handle but the eyeliner, lol accckkkk and shes so pretty just natural i dont understand why she makes herself ugly ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:04 PM |
| lol thats my fav accent that and irish ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:05 PM |
| haha a chunk of my family are irish....dont get to see them much (family feuds grrrrrrrr) but i used to love hearing them talk as a child...funny lil words. ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:06 PM |
| I bring my own cloth bags when I shop, I use environmentally safe laundry detergent I recycle any thing that can be recycled. I never use aerosol sprays. I just looked in to a heating oil that burns 20% cleaner then what I am currently using. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:06 PM |
| i went to college w/ an irish lady but she actually had a gruff kinda manly voice ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:07 PM |
| OK magazine is a british magazine...but was recently launched in america? Well in the british edition...there are a few pages of the american one and 90% of those are about poor britney, or jamie lynn and i do feel so sorry for them....i practically scream LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE!!!! ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:07 PM |
| oh yeah i forgot i just bought that green clorox brand....its suppose to be envoiromentally friendly ↑ |
| Name: Nicolaaa | Date: Apr 20th, 2008 5:08 PM |
| I just emailed you...so you'll have my email address now m25 ↑ |
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