Friday, October 23, 2009

Getting ready for my own "no impact" week

I have been reading some really good suggestions and had a few to share.

1. When waiting for hot water, set a bucket to catch excess water.  Now I've heard this one many times, but the suggestions are to water plants and while I aspire to owning plants one day or even a tree that will live more than 24 hours in my yard, it just doesn't happen.  BUT I've heard to use the water to flush with or to add dish soap to soak dishes.

That leads me to the next tip:

2. Get a sink full of soapy water and just set your dishes in their throughout the day instead of rinsing each and every dish as that wastes water.

My other preparation for this week is to tune up all my appliances:

3. Wash the electronic air cleaner and change out the humidifier pad and clean the filter on the heater.

4. Make sure the hot water heater is set to 120F

5. Clean out the dryer vent and scrub down the washer inside and out. 

6. Clean the back of the refrigerator with the vacuum and check for dust bunnies all around.

If you have any tips for me, subscribe to my blog and comment here.  It's much easier to keep up with the comments here than on Facebook.  On Facebook, I get too distracted by all the wall comments and different apps.  I'm like a cat with a flashlight there :-)

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