Going to hang you out to dry!

Hi my followers (the all great number of 3)

I love the number three, so I feel really satisfied. But, to back up to the main focus of this entry. I tried something that I have done before while living over seas, which was hanging my clothes and yes... my undies out to dry!! :) This has always worked well over seas, with the clothes pins supply that can go forever, their cool around-about systems of clothing lines, and mostly warm weather in the times I have gone abroad.

So this weekend, I decided I will keep using my laundry detergent because I have hypo-allergetic skin. I use a brand that has nothing in it (not even scent), and I am still a bit scared to use natural products, but why? I know, I just need to get over it, and use some backing soda or lavender or something! But until that day comes... I decided to hang the clothes out on a line to dry.

This took effort... A lot of effort. First, I do not live in my own house, to save money, I live for free with my old roommates parents :) Genius I know. So I laid my clothes out on their ping pong table in the back yard, and took some string (that was stable of course) and hung up my clothes with chip bag pins, because I could not find any regular clothes pins ha!

Little did I know or pay attention too.... THE WEATHER in this February month! FORECAST: RAIN AND POSSIBLE THUNDER STORMS. Great, what was I thinking? I was thinking... DON'T USE THE DRYER. So while my clothes dried (or so I thought), I went out to visit a friend. When I came back, my clothes were more soaked than before. Hey I got a little bit of natural rain on them, can't hurt. Although... you never know these days, rain may have acid in it AHHH. I could totally go back to the 80's and wear some cool acid spilled pants ;) Just kidding.

Anyways, I moved all my clothes inside, and hung them all up on hangers and turned my space heater all the way on high and "crossed my fingers" in hopes that my clothes would dry.

And of course a few hours later, YES they did dry! With all this said, I will be looking for a Sunny weekend to do my hanging of laundry.

Happy Rainy Days everyone. :)

A Bit of Humor!

So I asked some friends and my mother to help support me in this new adventure of cleaning, and of course Mother's always have to give you some helpful advice on what they think... so here it is, wise words from my own mother.

"I'm following... I use baking soda to absorb "pee" every time Paigey [my little 6 year old sister] pee's the bed hehe...I also clean our coffee pot with vinegar...woohoo whoopsie daisy girl!!!"

So there you have it Folks, Mom's always know best!!!

The Proposal...

This is the real Proposal I wrote to start this little CLEAN project. Hope it helps all who will follow this journey with me:

I Kristy Norman, would like to propose an experiment which involves, The Urban Homestead, book by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen as a guide to help me along the way in my “Urban Homestead Project” in my Sustainable Societies class. I would like to experiment and get involved with using cleaning products that are safe and healthy for our environment. I would like to use Coyne and Knutzen’s “three principles of clean” in their book in order to help place a guideline for me to follow. This project will help me use products that are nontoxic, cheap, and good for multipurpose usage. I will carefully pick products suggested by Coyne and Knutzen to do most, if not all, my cleaning for the next four months. For entertainment and motivation for myself and well, some others, I will be starting a blog that I will be held responsible for writing in at least twice a week, for new thoughts, ideas, and products used for cleaning my home. This will be a fun way for others to get involved in my new adventure of cleaning and help me share with others the importance I am learning from using nontoxic, cheap, and multipurpose cleaning products that are not only good for us, but good for our world! I am interested in this “green cleaning” madness because I am concerned for our environment, but also for my personal testimony. One, we are not in the best economy right now, and would like to educate myself on products that I can use in lots of way, also these products can help save money. Also I am hypersensitive to most laundry detergents, cleaners, lotions, hair shampoos, and soaps, I already have to be very careful on what I am using around my own skin. I think by practicing a life style that involves most natural substances will not just help the world around me, but also help improve my health. I am excited to see where the world of baking soda, white vinegar, tea tree oil, castile soap and much more will take me! These are just a few examples and reasons as to why I would like to take this project on for the next four months; Out with the words DANGER and POISON and in with the words LAVENDER and VINEGAR!!