Green Works

You all know me and my weirdo hippy amish ideas about cleaning and just life in general. I really do try to stay away from all the icky chemicals when it comes to household cleaning. I've had to make a few concessions along the way, mainly because we have hard (HARD) water and nothing bug Cascade will clean my dishes. In general, though, I lend toward natural stuffs - we use a lot of vinegar and baking soda.

This weekend I bought some of this stuff. Usually I buy cleaning products from Vitacost but we had just placed an order for vitamins and I didn't feel like paying shipping for toilet cleaner. I had heard about the supposedly "green" products from Clorox and it just seemed a little hypocritical that "Clorox" and "green" should be mentioned in the same sentence. However, they are readily available here in BF Nowhere, Ohio. And, there is something to be said about a company completely saturated in known carcinogens at least attempting to make products that aren't going to kill us all. So I gave it a whirl and got some of the all purpose cleaner and the toilet stuff.

So far so good, it works well, smells nice and doesn't contain anything horrible. Or at least nothing horrible that they're divulging on the label.

In completely unrelated news, I'm going to attempt to make the kids advent calendars this year. I've racked my brain trying to come up with something of manageable size that will fit four peppermints or chocolates in each pocket but I've got nothin'. Plus, I think it would be a neat thing for them to pass on to their children if they each had one of their own. I think I'll let them pick the pattern themselves, but with some guidance. As in "You can either make yours a stocking or a snowman" that way I won't end up with advent calendars shaped like a fire truck or a chicken.