How to be an eco-housewife
Whenever I feel lazy to do the laundry I tell myself I am doing something for the environment.
It's amazing how inertia can look like activism. Don't feel like doing laundry? Why, my dear, cast it as a green-friendly move. Does the world really need another wash of tot's filthy pants? Does washing her hair really measure up to not washing it? I mean, unless you're using expensive green shampoos and detergents, by washing your kid's encrusted bib or scalp you are in fact just further polluting the enviro!!
Such is my thinking when I am feeling especially incapable of doing housework, which is a great deal of the time. I think this is an improvement on my otherwise rather negative attitude. To cast things in a positive light is new for me. So I plan to work very hard at keeping it up. Which means I plan to work very hard at doing not much of anything. Which is actually doing something. For the world. And therefore for my child. So what this means is by not taking care of her properly, or the house she lives in, I am actually taking great care of her in the long run. I am also giving her a positive example of what humans can be: Crabmommy, steward of the planet.
Do I hear some snickering? Before you raise an eyebrow at the unsightly egg-caked leggings of Crabtot and that sticky dandelion puff of unwashed hair, get a load of this: I wash my Ziplock bags. It doesn't get greener than that. I wash them every day. Unless they've had leftover lamb kebobs in them for several weeks. Then I let them go.
Washing Ziplocks. This is serious eco-mom stuff. And, ahem, them Ziplocks are pricey for this cheapmommy.
Bless you, Crabmommy! Al Gore would be proud. All you have to do now is replace that CrabHummer with a Prius and try to keep those weekend junkets to Aspen and the Hamptons on the CrabJet to a minimum. I can feel the planet getting cooler even as I write this! No?wait... I left the air conditioning on high. Never mind.
washingn ziplocs - I admit I do it oo but when I do I think I am chanelling my "lived -though the war" grandma. Nothign like war to make one green.