Eco-guilt

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Here's one more: as soon as we can manage to get the garage cleaned out enough to work in there, we are going to replace our old hot water heater with one of the new tankless models. I'd like to replace the furnace as well but haven't looked into it; it's as old as the house, which means going on 30.

We did this a few years ago and got a front loading washer/dryer. That was expensive enough. I just wish I had the money to do all of the other "Eco" projects I would like to do. And, pshaw, 30 is NOT old (our house is now 81!)

Originally Posted by Alex

We really try to use cloth bags for groceries but we are inept. Unfortunately most trips to the grocery store involve driving there. So the bags have to be in the car. But when we get home with the groceries the bags come up into the apartment. Then we forget to put them back in the car. Then the next time we go grocery shopping we have no bags.

Ditto.

Originally Posted by lindyhop

Taking old stuff to Goodwill is work all by itself so I'm much more careful about buying useless stuff.

I have been better about this AND I have been trying to buy BETTER things when I do buy them because they tend to last longer. While I can get distracted very easily at Target, I tend NOT to buy things because they are just on sale. I will wait to buy something until it is on sale (if I can). I also stay far away from the $1 section.