going green

One of the many reasons we chose to live in our new city is because of it’s focus on environmentalism. It is a very “green” city. As in they pick up recycling and composting weekly but only take trash every second week. Coming from a large city that doesn’t even have curbside recycling, it’s rather refreshing. Imagine, taking care of our world instead of just drilling for oil and polluting it!

Keeping with the “green” theme, I went ahead and did something I hope I won’t regret! I signed up for a cloth diaper service. No more ’sposies in this house. No more killing trees and piling poop in landfills. This service brings you all the fitted (as in fit just like disposables) diapers you need (they start with 70/week but will give you more if you need). They provide a diaper pail and drawstring liner. All you need to do is take off the diaper, roll it up poop and all and toss it in the pail. Once a week you drop the bag on your front porch and it is replaced with clean, sanitized diapers (even their cleaning process is environmentally friendly). It ends up costing less per month than disposables so really, there is nothing to lose. I only had to commit to 4 weeks of service so if we really hate it we can cancel after a month. If we still are using the service after 6 months then I might buy my own diapers and wash them at home.

We’ll see how it all goes!

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