Silly Mom Thoughts

I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve been slow to jump on the “Going Green” bandwagon. It’s not that I don’t think Going Green isn’t important, I do, I’ve just been… lazy. And cheap.

I fully intend to replace the light bulbs in my house with those fancy schmancy energy efficient ones. But I’m waiting for the ones we have, to burn out first. I’m sorry, but I am not wasting perfectly good light bulbs just to go out and buy expensive ones. Not gonna happen. And, as it just so happens, we turn lights off when we leave the room (see, we’re sorta green) so our light bulbs tend to last a really long time.

But I will buy the energy efficient ones, I swear. Eventually.

It breaks my heart every time I see those ads on how much waste plastic grocery bags create. It’s truly saddening. So, I purchased 4 or 5 of those “made from recycled material” reusable bags from my grocery store.

Do you think that I ever remember to bring them into the store with me? Um, no.

So, I end up having my groceries bagged in plastic and I vow that next time, next time I will remember the reusable bags. That has yet to happen.  But I try, I really do try!

All hope is not lost for my green-ness. I wash everything in cold water. We turn our heat to 57 degrees at night and 65 during the day. I keep my cell phone charger, toaster, and coffee maker unplugged when not in use. (I read somewhere that unplugging these things when they aren’t being used can save over $50 a year, wow.)

However, I won’t be starting a compost bin. That takes Going Green to a whole new moldy, stinky level that I don’t want to deal with.

So for now, I’ll actually try to remember the reusable bags and replace light bulbs with efficient ones. I should also probably get to installing that water conserving shower head the utilities company sent me months ago…

For now I’ll consider myself sorta green. How about teal?