Welcome to the June 2013 Natural Living Blog Carnival: A Natural Challenge.This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Natural Living Blog Carnival hosted by Happy Mothering and The Pistachio Project through the Green Moms Network. This month, our members took 1-2 weeks to explore a natural practice that they had yet to try. Today, they're going to tell you about their experience! Hopefully, you'll find some inspiration to try something new on one or more of the posts.
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This week I am participating in my first Natural Living Blog Carnival. Please come back next Thursday for Thrifty Home Improvement Part 2.
I've been reading the Natural Living Blog Carnival posts for about a year now and I finally decided to participate. I decided that since we already gave up our dryer (except for sheets since I can't figure out where I'd hang those), I would give up heat completely for laundry. For 2 weeks we washed all our clothes, including diapers, in cold water instead of a warm wash/cold rinse for clothes, and hot wash/cold rinse for diapers and we hung everything to dry (something we've been doing for about a year now).
I was a little, well a lot concerned, that the diapers wouldn't be clean since everyone stresses to use hot water to get them clean. We had no staining or stink problems. I'm happy to say that our clothes all appear to be just as clean as when we use warm or hot water. I haven't received our PG&E bill year, but I'm sure there will be a difference since we say a huge difference in our bill when we stopped using the dryer.
The one thing I had to be diligent about was making sure to wash one load of laundry every day. I only have room for one load to dry on the rack at a time. Sometimes if we need things, I've cheated and used the dryer, but for these 2 weeks I was committed to staying on top of our laundry and didn't cheat. (This is huge for me.)
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Visit Happy Mothering and The Pistachio Project to learn more about participating in next month’s Natural Living Blog Carnival!
Please take some time to enjoy the posts our other carnival participants have contributed:
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