I'm feeling a bit hesitant about our latest step in our quest to become partially greener. We fired our cleaning people. While I hate to clean, having them come just didn't make sense (and was less than frugal). Think about it:
1. Cleaning lady packs her car with non-earth-friendly, toxic cleaning supplies
2. Cleaning lady drives over 30 miles from her house to ours, burning precious fossil fuels and polluting the air
3. Cleaning lady applies non-earth-friendly, toxic cleaning supplies to surfaces in our home
4. Cleaning lady packs her car and drives back home
5. Andy and Rory write a $260 check each month
Who'd have thought that clean toilets caused so much impact to our environment?
Rory and I have made the commitment, and will begin keeping this place clean on our own, effective immediately. We're disposing of most of our hazardous household cleaners at the local hazardous waste drop-off site, and we're replacing them with Meyer's more earth-friendly products.
We'll see how this goes. Hopefully we won't fall into such uncleanliness that we'll be condemned!
You forgot to mention the deep discount we got on the Meyers laundry detergent at the Market... They didn't have their stuff in the system yet, so they gave us the detergent for $5.00.... I am sure it should have been more like $12 or something. Andy said, I should go back in and buy a few more bottles at that price. We also got this wonderful lavender counter spray that Andy thinks he may be allergic to.
Anyway we are getting greener each day.
Posted by: Rory | February 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM
I would love to hear more about your experieces with Meyers, or Dr. Brommers, or whatever else you use to clean. Finding effective non-toxic cleaners is something I'm totally interested in.
So far we've only used a citrus-based general cleaner, but it's works better than the toxic stuff on similar tasks (and smells oh-so-good!)
Posted by: Sonya | February 12, 2008 at 10:55 AM