Following on from one of my previous blogs, Make Do and Mend, I’ve been making a big effort not to buy any new clothes (apart from underwear!). I've never hesitated about the kids wearing secondhand clothes - they grow so quickly that it makes much more sense financially and I regularly swap kids clothes with … Continue reading Say No To New
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Eco Friendly Tooth Care
One of the first and easiest things we did when starting to be more eco friendly was swapping to bamboo toothbrushes. Our local supermarket used to sell the Humble Brush so that’s what I tried first. Initially the texture of the bamboo felt a bit odd but it didn’t take long to get used to … Continue reading Eco Friendly Tooth Care
How To Get Started
Over the weekend I was chatting to several friends who said how much they’ve been enjoying reading the blog (thank you 😀) and would like to start doing more. So with that in mind, along with my children’s school promoting the Plastic Free Lent challenge, I thought I’d share a few ideas for getting started. … Continue reading How To Get Started
Make Do and Mend
As The Husband wrote in one of his posts we’ve been trying to minimise our belongings and taking more consideration before we buy things. As part of this new mind set I’ve been trying hard to reuse things we already have, mend things and repurpose existing things. I’ve been very fortunate that a friend has … Continue reading Make Do and Mend
Friday Night is (Plastic Free) Curry Night
The Husband and I love curry so occasionally we treat ourselves to a takeaway from our local Indian restaurant. The takeaway comes mainly in foil trays delivered in a paper bag so it’s generally fairly good on the plastic free front, it’s not quite so good on our wallets (or waistline) though so I tend … Continue reading Friday Night is (Plastic Free) Curry Night
Shampoo Bars
One of our first steps in our mission to cut down on plastic was to replace bottles of shampoo with shampoo bars. I have to say I’m that I was weirdly quite excited about this. As someone with thick and naturally very curly hair, I’m always looking for something that will give me glossy curls … Continue reading Shampoo Bars
Lidl Frustrating
The weekly food shopping is a frustrating experience when trying to be both ethical and environmentally aware. Not only is it extremely difficult to avoid single-use plastic items, but in order to do so we have to shop in many places to get the items we want. We go to our local market for our … Continue reading Lidl Frustrating
It’s time to Kondo
It is fair to say that we have always been environmentally aware, but only recently have we really taken to thinking about our impact in everything we do. But the realisation probably didn’t come from the obvious places. It was actually a realisation that we had too much stuff. In 2011 we left Somerset to … Continue reading It’s time to Kondo
Bread
Bread When we first started trying to reduce our plastic we decided to have a go at making our own bread so that we could eliminate the endless plastic bags of sliced bread that we seemed to get through. So we bought bread flour and yeast and enthusiastically started baking. The Husband was very keen … Continue reading Bread
The milkman’s back
Bring back the Milkman! In an attempt to reduce our plastic waste, we decided one of the quick wins was to switch from large, plastic bottles of supermarket milk to milk delivered to the door, a.k.a the milkman. The company we use is called Milk and More and they cover most of the UK. Importantly, … Continue reading The milkman’s back
Eco Family Life 