tiny choices
April 15, 2008
the Diva update
After road-testing my diva cup, I am an enthusiastic convert. Seriously, it's hard for me to keep from leaping around the room throwing flowers in the air, I'm that enthusiastic about it. It's comfortable, there's practically no leakage, and it's nice to have the freedom to forget about it for almost the entire day. Sure, emptying it out can be a bit messy, but I love knowing that I'm not using tampons anymore. Another tiny choice that fits well with my life. <3
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March 12, 2008
expanding my comfort zone
The more I read about reusing things and sustainability, the more I think about how I can apply those ideas to my own situation. Our family generates a lot of trash, and while that's something I'd like to minimize, I don't want to completely upend the entire household over something that hinges on my personal feelings about the environment, etc., which fits well with my decision to make small changes where I can. In light of this, I've decided to give the DivaCup a try. I'd been thinking for a month or so about switching to organic tampons when I read an article about the DivaCup and other products in the same vein. The article gave me a better understanding than I'd originally had of how they work, and since I love the idea of washable pantyliners (another tiny choice!), I went ahead and bought this Lunapads/DivaCup kit yesterday. I have some reservations about trusting a little cup to keep me from bleed-through humiliation, but I'm happy to try it and see what I think. If it works well for me, then it'll be one more tiny choice towards reducing my impact, and if it doesn't, well, I can always re-visit the organic tampon plan.
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February 12, 2008
a tiny choice
I've been thinking a lot about finances lately, and being environmentally conscious seems to be an issue that often goes hand in hand with living frugally. One of the green sites I've been reading recently is Tiny Choices. The idea of making changes little by little is much easier for me to get behind than the idea of changing how I do everything, so I've been mulling over how I do things and ways I could make tiny choices to change. The first tiny choice I'm consciously making is my decision to hang-dry all of my clothes except for my jeans. Right now this means I'm putting all my clothes on hangers to dry, but as the weather gets nicer, I'm thinking about talking to Mike about putting up a removable clothesline on our deck. Our HOA won't let us keep one up there all the time, which I understand - they can be kind of tacky sometimes, so I'm thinking about a set-up that would let me put the line up when I need to hang clothes on it and take it down when I'm done. Until then, however, laundry days at our house will see my clothes hanging in doorways to dry.
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