i distinctly remember 6 years ago standing in line at the IGA and the woman in front of me had canvas bags and was also stuffing her food in her backpack. i remember thinking to myself at the time - what's her deal? how pretentious is she? - like many others now i find myself in her boat. would i plan to go to the store without my bags? no. do i feel ridiculously guilty when i forget them? yes.
we try our best here with all things eco but are by no means superstars. do i compost? no. do i think i might? probably not. do i use too much paper towel? you betcha.
5 years ago i attended mother goose with aydan and we all went around the circle and talked about how our cleanng routine/products had changed now that we had all had babies in our lives. everyone had tales of beautiful organic eco products to talk of and i had my old buddies mr. clean, windex and lysol wipes keeping me company. to tell you the truth i had not even thought about it - i was just worrying not to drop the baby! again i thought they were all trying to hard and had attitudes - maybe this is why they never invited me to go to coffee which i later found out they did after every class! i have since changed my ways as well. this switch was not done consciously rather it happened quite organically - using more and more eco stamped products rather than the fore mentioned group although we sometimes do reminisce and have a house party together for those tough to clean jobs. everyday cleaning on the other hand is eco cleaning.
