RE: Your best 5 green tips?
Some of my household tips:
1) Use white vinegar in place of chemicals to eradicate bathroom limescale. Tip half a bottle of white vinegar into a large freezer bag, put the shower head inside it and seal, leave overnight. This also works for scale around taps - drip some white vinegar on to scale, leave overnight and rub off.
2) For insect bite relief- cut half a lemon in half and rub around site of bite. It cools the bite and eases swelling, redness and itching.
3) To get windows sparkling clean - pour some vinegar into a bowl of warm water and clean with soft cloth. Buff up with old newspaper.
4) To restore shine to dull mirrors - cut a lemon in half and rub on to mirror. Buff up with newspaper orpaper towel.
5) To get candle wax out of clothes, place a tissue or paper towel over wax. Iron over the tissue. The wax will melt into the paper.
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
I have energy saving lightbulbs that i have had over hmmm 12 years probably, they are huge and not very bright but the more modern ones are fine i think - i'd rather save some energy and have a slightly dimmer room tbh.
Yoghurt making - i bought a 1 litre yog maker on ebay ( none going on freecycle) and buy one small tub of organic bio yoghurt to start a batch and then keep taking from that batch to make another batch - i bought an extra tub so i can make on tub after another and use yoghurt to make smoothies, lollies ( using used lolly sticks and any plastic tub i can find that is suitable) and for deserts with different fruits and purees.
Success:
1:Green cleaning using bicarb, vinegar, soapnuts etc.
2:Composting
3:Thermostatic radiator valves and zone valves, energy saving lightbulbs, gas tumble dryer( not used often but needed with a huge family and all this rain) with dryer balls.
4:String bags
5:freecycle & reusing as much as possible.
Failures
1: veg patch this year - too much wind and rain, too wet to get out to catch the snails 😉
2: No other failures, well none that i feel upset about or wouldn't try again.
anne
Sorry guys!!! if any following this thread. This mooncup thingy.... I need to know more, what happens if you have very heavy periods? I have considered using the mooncup but that is as far as it goes... I imagine it to be very messy and awkward but as I have not used one then I should not comment, but I am just to uncomfortable about it to try it so please help out and convince me!!
Janehelen,
Personally I find the mooncup brilliant, so convenient and not particularly messy. Have a look here, it can help answer all your queries:
Love & blessings,
Rachel
I suppose it depends on how heavy your periods are - mine are pretty heavy on teh first couple of days and I do need to empty the device pretty regularly - every couple of hours. But I would have needed to have changed my tampon that frequently too.