Going Paperless

For well over a year I have thought about ditching paper towels. I have saved several ideas on Pinterest and there they have sat with all my other good intentions like blogging regularly. I was pretty sneaky in how I went about it with my family. It started with me running out of paper towel. Whenever they asked where they were I would tell them that I hadnt bought any and to just use and old worn out towel for puppy accidents, the bar towels for kitchen messes, cloth napkins for dinner and the blue shop towels for outdoor things. All these things can be washed and reused. After about a month I think they caught on I was not going to buy them anymore.

My family is actually use to this kind of thing. Their tree hugging environmental, keyword mental, wife and momma has done this with lots of things.

We are never buying store bought eggs again so we got chickens

We should save the bees. My hubby said we are never getting bees. He is now a beekeeper and loves it.

We should try to grow more of our own food. So we garden and it gets bigger every year.

My husband suggested we get meat rabbits. We are on our way to having two meals a week with our own rabbits this year.

We try to use less over the counter medications. Those of us who are on doctor prescribed medication take it. We just try essential oil, herbal and more natural remedies first before popping something over the counter. Yes we still have otc medications in our home we have just cut down on using them by a lot.

We wanted to learn to can our own food and  to compost. We took classes at our local extension office.

Stop waiting for the perfect time to achieve things that you want to do. Just take a few little steps to make those dreams a reality. You are going to have setbacks and failures. Learn from them but never stop moving forward.

To make my paperless towels I used flour sack towels and cut them into fourths, I then bought marked down flannel and cut it the exact size as my flour sacks and sewed them together.