Do you think of your home and garden or apartment as your castle, and want it to be a place that's a sanctuary, a healthy, green haven for your family and you?
Look below to find
Frugal Ways to Live Greener and Healthier at Home
This post has been updated 5/27/2024
Greening your living space to enhance your health and lifestyle is as simple and economical as taking one small step at a time.
1. Improve the air quality of your home or apartment by installing and properly maintaining a carbon monoxide detector.
All green products mentioned in posts above are less expensive and healthier to use than most conventional cleaning and exterminating products.
One epic rule of thumb is to read every commercial cleaning product label before you decide to purchase or reject it.
It's key to read labels on pest control products as well. Avoid damaging skin, eyes,
lungs, and harming the health of adults, children, and pets with products that pollute, contaminate, and adversely affect all living things on our planet.
Using eco-friendly soap, detergent, shampoo and the like prevents skin irritation, allergies, and illness for you and yours. It also makes it unnecessary to dispose of polluting or toxic materials down the drain or dumping containers they came in into a landfill.
3. Use renewable, sustainable, low carbon-footprint items for kitchen, bath, bedroom, and laundry room. Aim to limit new purchases to only those things that are beyond repair.
Fix, recycle, and refinish what you have accumulated already. Choosing high quality over quantity, and sustainability, minimalism, streamlining, and simplifying are frugal, time saving, health-saving long-lasting ways to create a greener, healthier home.
Want more green swap ideas? Use glass and stainless storage containers instead of plastic. After you finish eating peanut or almond butter (ones that come in glass jars), store-bought salad dressing, and foods like apple sauce, olives, and pickles, recycle the glass for food storage.
Dry off with organic bath towels instead of conventional ones, display live houseplants instead of artificial ones, use non-toxic house paint instead of those with lead, upcycle clothing from thrift stores instead of buying new, and only wash clothes in your washing machine if you have a full load.
Get your kids and grandkids to join in. Show them by your example how to recycle, reuse, conserve, and respect our precious natural resources and the planet. For more read Awesome Tips to Help You Raise Greener Kids .
Become more of an environmental maven or mister. Convert to foods that are mostly or all plant-based to make a major contribution to reducing your carbon footprint. "An Oxford University Study, published in the journal Climatic Change, shows that meat-eaters are responsible for almost twice as many dietary greenhouse-gas emissions per day as vegetarians and about two and a half times as many as vegans."
Improve health, increase your sense of well-being, save money, and recognize it's the humane and right thing to do.
5. Green your vision. Think of and follow through with one or two eco-friendly changes each week.
Landscape with drought resistant
vegetation, and plant and maintain a veggie garden. Grow and eat food for
self-sustainability, and know that you're contributing to planetary healing.
Replace grass with xeriscape
landscaping. Use drip irrigation to conserve water and store water in retention containers
to save rainwater.
An added benefit of this type of garden is that it’s much
easier and more inexpensive to keep up than ones with grass and lawns.
Use your garden for entertaining. Instead of eating in a restaurant, sit at a picnic table in your garden or at a park. This is a free and fun way to get social with family or friends.
6. Notify lawmakers and regulators to go green by phoning, emailing, texting. Use social media to alert manufacturers, politicians, and leaders in your community,
state, and national governments about environmental issues.
Express
your concerns about the direct environmental link between health, safety, and
climate change with the use of plastics, toxic chemicals in cleaning products, fossil fuel consumption, cattle raising and meat and poultry production, pesticides including Roundup, and contamination from manufacturing by-products.
Advocate
for home goods made from biodegradable materials, ones that use
minimal packaging. Set the intention to move toward zero waste.
Purchase only as much food as you can eat without waste. Learn how to incorporate every edible part of foods you grow or buy. Two examples are beets and celery.
Compost any raw produce scraps either in your compost pile or in a community one.
Don’t
patronize companies, shops, stores, and businesses that contribute to global
warming.
What you buy and don't buy speaks louder than words. Show friends, family, and community that you are reducing the
world's carbon footprint, and soon they will follow suit.
Support those
manufacturers, distributors, and organizations who have made a real effort to create
zero waste, increase sustainable business practices, and developed and maintain eco-friendly programs and policies.
There are so many frugal, easy ways to live greener and healthier at home.
What things are you doing to conserve natural resources, use less plastic, eat cleaner and greener, and simplify living by using any of the methods outlined above?
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