I've always wondered why people used paper towels to clean up. Growing up my mom would take old clothes and we'd reuse them as rags to clean around the house. Still do it even now.
You're not saving the environment 😂 For a start, there is no crisis. Secondly, some rando's on tiktok making money from a trend of not buying plastic straws wouldn't make a dent in it if there was.
@@CannabrannaLammer You’re right! Consumers making these small changes alone would not solve the enormous amount of landfill and plastic waste being produced, as a large quantity comes from the waste produced directly by large corporations and businesses. We may not be in a commonly visible crisis yet, but you wouldn’t wait to get the flu to get a flu shot, right? What making these types of small conscious decisions will do is at least delay the amount that is getting thrown out until there are better policies to regulate material usage and disposal better. At this time, our technologies and infrastructure can’t support the recycling practices we claim to be succeeding at since there is simply too much to process. I agree that some content creators make money off dumb trends… but many creators such as the one from this video seem to just want to share some great tips that maybe someone didn’t get the chance to learn yet. Plus, it’s completely up to you at the end of the day what you choose to do with the info 🙂
@Manda have you see the garbage mountains in the ocean? Also my country is directly being affected by climate change and pollution. Making talk less crap and do some research. You're so privileged you think nothing is happening. It's not all doom and gloom but there is a problem.
@@CannabrannaLammerwoah. You can make the argument that one person won’t make a huge difference (it’s really about spreading it to more people), but denying climate change altogether? Do you live under a rock? Do you ever go outside? Spreading this type of misinformation is dangerous!!
Paper towels are good in cases where something is really gross , something you don't want in the wash like paint or a chemical, or if a mess contains broken glass. Don't want shards in a towel and in the wash. Ever broken a glass bottle of pancake syrup? You can't just sweep that up easy peasy. Edit: This seems to be a very contentious topic. We do use cloth in our home too. I just wanted to point out there are unavoidable exceptions. I have those stacks of bar mops you can buy anywhere, like Sam's. Those are our "clean up towels" for counters, table tops, spills, wiping down anything that needs it. And I have old bath towels cut in half for those giant messes that can happen (like vomit). We have a big family and if I relied on paper towels alone, not only would we cause a lot of waste, we'd spend a lot of money. I also have used cloth diapers on my kids for years, mainly because I feel like it's more healthy than a paper and plastic diaper filled with tons of chemicals. Just how I feel. I prefer cotton underwear to synthetic so I assume they would too. The fact that cloth diapers cause less waste is just a nice bonus.
Yep. Sorry, not sorry, not giving up paper towels. There are certain substances requiring mop-up from time to time that require an absorbent that is thrown out after one use. And newsflash, if you use a cloth rag to mop up a spilled chemical, it still ends up in a landfill.
A piece of bread works better than anything to get little glass shards up! But yes, paper towels are meant to be thrown away and used for gross stuff for sure!
I love this!!! Just as an extra reminder, please remember the waste in our planet is hardly our fault, big corporations produce 99% of the waste that’s killing our planet. Try to find ways to advocate for a change in laws and legislations surrounding the matter as well
I remember as a child soda came in bottles with a 2c return on each bottle Then they changed to plastic and it’s the consumers fault? Just venting 😊 be Blessed 💜
What? Just because you didn't produce it, then it's not your fault, but with all the knowledge about the damage you still choose to buy their products.
@@yes12337 I somewhat agree with you and totally support your attitude, however in our economy ethical consumerism is close to impossible. Majority of products are only affordable if they are stored in cheap and harmful plastic packaging. Places who produce and sell in environmentally friendly / zero waste ways are only affordable if the company has made the choice to underpay employees, particularly those at the root of their production (e.g. for Coca Cola it would be the sugar beet farms). Until there are laws to force corporations to pay everyone a fair wage and source ingredients ethically, they will continue to produce unethically for a cheaper price, which wipes out any competitors that try to do the right thing.
I keep a roll of paper towels around for the worst of the worst messes. I have cats. But that's maybe one or two rolls per year. Otherwise I keep old towels and rags for all other household cleaning. Being frugal isn't always pretty but it should be sanitary! 😊
@@Samlovescornbread Thanks, Sam. It's like trying to get to infinity and beyond! Zero waste, minimalism, green living...they are wonderful concepts to inspire us but we never truly arrive there. Unless we go into the wilderness and cut ourselves off from modern living completely. And eat and use only what we produce! We can, however, cut way back on consumerism and actually be happier, healthier and richer from the effort! 🤗👍
I am a stained glass artist, and I always save everything glass. I get mortified that so much glass gets thrown away. If people only knew what it takes to make every glass jar.
@@kirsten007 If there is an art school nearby they would probably appreciate the glass bottles There are some arts and craft You Tube channels that have great ideas for glass jars and bottles. There are also some You Tube Videos that use glass bottles and jars for storage and reorganizing kitchens, art supplies. or whatever.
Not me. I’m tired of these “alternative” lifestyles being rubbed in our face. If god didn’t want us to use plastic he wouldn’t have let it be discovered. 😂
@@pgarciaAP Well, I do get tired of trying to find ways around using plastic. But it's everywhere and there is only so much recycling or repurposing one can do! I do my best and try not to feel bad at the trash I do generate. And not be preachy with others. 😚😳
@@jladylove1 That depends on the country too, I guess. I'm from Germany and I would get it mostly online, in some Unverpackt Laden (a store that sells unpackaged goods and ppl weigh and use their own containers) or Reformhaus (health food shop?). Amazon has bio degradeable coconut scrubbers.
Cloth paper towels actually don't save me money.. I have to travel to wash them, pay a premium to wash/dry, & they always end up stinking because the hot water washes cost $1 more at the laundromat. 🤷🏽♀️
Soak them in hot water and buy a washboard to use in your sink and use oxiclean or borax with your detergent to clean them. As far as napkins for eating use dinner cloth napkins.
What on earth do you need to use paper towels for? I use 3 small microfibre cloths in a week and they take up no extra space in my washing machine on cold wash tossed in with whatever else I am washing. I also use 3 tea towels in a week. If something is very sticky I use a small piece of toilet paper- but that is no more than once a month - never more often. I think you should try to pay more attention when and why and how you use paper towels.
Love this.... I have been a zero waster for a while and my neighbors are like, " how come your garbage can is always so empty?" That question never lets me down!
@@veganpelosanimais1216 😂😂 I have a shirt that says ‘this girl runs on coffee and Jesus’ I actually plan to start making my own bc Etsy shirts are $25-$50 each and I only make $15/hr so as much as I’d like to support others I can’t afford it but still need some shirts bc I have like 3. I want to open a shop but need to figure out how to get it set with taxes. I have a friend that seems to know everything and everyone lol so I’ll ask him.
Yeah but it's not gonna do much good for regular average people to do all that but elites n super rich aren't gonna do those things they're gonna continue to live their same lifestyles
@@agirl2094 explain how acrylic nails are zero waste? 🤷🏾♀️ Now I ain't claiming to be "zero waste" because that is damn near impossible and I'm not a hypocrite.
The only thing I'm unsure of are the cloth towels. Is the electricity and water required to wash them truly a better tradeoff to buying biodegradable paper towels? 🤔 But I'm really impressed with the other tips, especially the bamboo brush! I hate sponges
The paper towels can also go in the compost after your done with them. Also you can buy paper towels that were 100 new paper. I agree with you too much to wash towels instead of just using a paper towel .
Not a waste at all you have to wash towels anyways, if your towels are clean enough to use on your face or as napkins why would washing you cloth towels be a waste instead of paper towels.Make it make sense😮
paper towels may not always be biodegradable depending on what you used them to clean up, also when in a landfill biodegradable items are not actually able to breakdown properly so they’re not actually degrading. if you have a compost bin paper towels make great brown product as long as it wasn’t used with any harsh cleansers or something of the sort
I use a dishrag for my dishes; sponges have always grossed me out, especially because they start to smell so quickly. But paper towels are a hill I’m going to die on until they’re to expensive to reason with it lol. I just don’t feel like doing that much washing.
The dish rag you use to wash dishes. Before you wash it out put a little bleach onto it. Then wash it out and then pour some hot water and vinegar onto it. Let that cool down, then let dry it shouldn't be smelling after. Do it after every use at night before going to bed you shouldn't have no problem after.
See im the opposite. The thought of using a dish rag makes me vomit! 🤢 idk something just grosses me out about that. I also dont use one to bathe either! 😂 loofah all the way. Maybe its a texture thing? Idk .. but im also not the one who stops a sink and fills it up with water and soap and washes all 20 dishes that are covered in food and funk...in that same nasty water from the previous ones! 😂 am i the only one!?
What on earth do you need to use paper towels for? I use 3 small microfibre cloths in a week and they take up no extra space in my washing machine on cold wash tossed in with whatever else I am washing. I also use 3 tea towels in a week. If something is very sticky I use a small piece of toilet paper- but that is no more than once a month - never more often. I think you should try to pay more attention when and why and how you use paper towels.
This is random but I wanted to share. My grandma uses a wash towel (a small towel designed for watching dishes… it’s non abrasive so it doesn’t scratch her pans.) for washing her dishes. Then she puts them in the dishwasher (she lives on a ranch so she washes her dishes by hand then washed them again in the dishwasher 😂.) she has crocheted clothe scrubber. Again, it doesn’t screech or ruin her pans. I think it’s genius. Food scraps are given to the chickens/cat/dog. Probably not the healthiest thing but it keeps the animals from getting into the trash bags since there was no food thrown into the trash can or trash bag I should say. Large milk jars are perfect for storing flour and sugar due to its wide brim… there are other jars that have wide brims now but that’s what my grandma uses and I think she’s awesome (I’m 24, female…)
Wtf is a milk jar? And please don't feed your pets table scraps - a lot has changed with companion animals due to breeding, even since your grandma's time. Life on a ranch is so different from life in a city.
Look up where your plastic recycling goes... It's almost certainly sent to a landfill in another country. It's the sad, shameful truth about recycling: most of it still ends up in the trash. 😥
Reducing plastic is always a good thing, but remember that 70% of plastic in the ocean is from commercial fishing nets and individual consumer actions are not nearly as effective as industry regulation for reducing plastic waste!
If that's the problem you want to point out then you should feel obligated to come up with a solution. It's not like these higher up people aren't taking into account this statistic. It's hard to regulate something so isolated. Each fishing boat will need to be inspected frequently. Each inspector will need to be paid. The inspector will need a list of regulations that these boats need to follow which means laws will need to be passed and both the inspectors and crew of the fishing boats need to actually care for why these regulations are in place. Work at any fast food place and you'll see how careless people are towards regulations when the authority isn't around which points us back at how frequently you'll need to inspect these boats at work. But this is all without mentioning things like chinese fishing boats. Can we let China solve the problem themselves or do we have to intervene. Intervention is bound to put us in war but leaving them be is bound to letting them destroy necessary ecosystems if they don't solve the issue. You can't just bring up a statistic and pin the responsibility on someone else when the responsibility is all of ours And also another thing that went without mention is the pollution in our local ecosystems that pose the same threats as the plastic in the ocean. I know for a fact that that trash was put there by consumers. The amount of trash found in cities that end up in waterways and bodies of water is astounding. This is a problem that can most definitely be changed by consumer choices and one that must be changed. We can't play the blame game and pin the responsibility on whoever is in power. We must make our own changes and rise into these positions of power if we really want to create the world we want to live in
Thank you sister. I started my zero waste journey 3 years ago. The dish soap idea just got me closer. Liking and following. I'm looking forward to Part Deux.
@@maridelatte6824 Glass can be recycled too :) I am sure they have a recycling program they can collect their extra glass jars and bottles for. That’s what we do where I live, at least.
@@meks194 I litarly just said it's efficiënt for storage 😵💫 different sizes and shapes of packaging leaves a lot of empty space but all the same shape means they all fit neat next to eachother. So in my opinion that's pretty efficiënt 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@@meks194some people might require that level of efficiency. I guess it just depends on how and what you're storing and how much space you have I agree with you tho. I think most people do it for esthetics rather than efficiency
My grandma is 95 and grew up during the depression and is the definition of zero waste 🩷🩷 Never know if you’ll open the sour cream and find sour cream or leftover pasta. She uses shower caps she can wash to cover her bowls instead of plastic wrap and has never bought a paper towel. Simply rags for different messes. Love this.
Not to be rude but you know eating leftover pasta after it's been in the fridge after it's been cooked can actually make you sick I've watched a video of a guy ate five day old pasta that was cooked and he ended up very sick came to find out the pasta was moldy he put it in the fridge after he cooked it and didn't eat it till 5 five days later ended up in the hospital..
I already have a jar and bottle hoarding problem. I used to work at a high end cocktail bar and the pretty bottles what came from there and they were just going to bin it are still part of my collection.
Maybe you can sell the wider mouth ones to candle makers, there are so many in the market. Personally I would buy them from you and make you a beautiful candle to make you feel happy you decided to pass them on.
If you soak it in boiling water and antibacterial cleaning, it's fine. Also pour boiling water over your wooden cutting boards and wooden utensils to sanitize.
Literaly every German ever. Also some stuff dosnt cost money but a whole lot of spoons. And not everyone has a huge supply of those... If you don't know what I mean than you likely have plenty.
@Jess J There are definitely some pet messes you don't want to reuse the cloth after! Even then, I mostly just pick a threadbare cloth and throw it out. I keep a BIG basket of cloth rags, and every few years buy a pack of paper towels to keep on hand , more for direct contact food use than anything else.
I up cycled a cookie cooling wire rack from dollar tree. I took 4 of them to make a grid, connecting with wire ties, I made the perfect drying mat over your sink and for most of the silverware I stick in the grids they hang there and dry fast. I also took their wire baskets and cut one up to use as dividers in the other one and I attached that to my wire rack and now I have two places for silverware!!
That’s commendable., however it’s not up cycling , it’s just using a newly purchased product in its non intended way. If you had those items laying around the house , and you repurposed them - then you’re up cycling. My apologies for man-spraining . Keep on deducing that carbon footprint. 😊
Yep, use a soap bar for your hair too. Buy white vinegar in a glass bottle if you need a hair rinse. (A tablespoon with a pint of water.) It’s also what I use to get soap out of the laundry during the rinse cycle.
I put grey wash clothes in little baskets in each bathroom, cut up old towels and put them under my sink and have reusesble paper towel rolls….i save hundreds every year. It’s kinda crazy. You do laundry anyway….so it’s literally saving a step. And reduces trash by soooo much. I also use rubber lids for stuff instead of plastic wrap. And reusesble ziplocks. I wasn’t even planning to be a zero waste person but the logic and simplicity totally makes it worth it for me.
I totally agree. I am so grateful. You put this on video posting more of these videos will help the communities and our whole environment. Thank you so much
I make many of my own recipes, but I have a favorite pasta sauce that comes in a glass jar. I save every one. They are the perfect size for my spice blends, kitchen ingredients, etc.
I use a cotton dish cloth. I buy ones that are color fast or white background. To sanitize I can put 1 or 2 in a glass bowl with one teaspoon of bleach in the water. 5 min soak, et Voila! You may think that's too much. Ok, Sanitize on the run. After washing the dishes, wash the cloth with just plain soap & rinse. Get your Dollar tree spray bottle from under the sink, lie the cloth flat in the sink. Spray the cloth until it saturated with 70% Isopropyl Alcohol; et Voila, sanitized on the run. Squeeze out the excess hang to dry on dish rack. Love you -- mean it.
Like with most things the answer is It depends, but generally no advised. Here's a more in-depth breakdown. Do NOT use anything that can chip the coating on Teflon cookware. No metal cooking utensils, no scratcher pads, no bamboo brush. Hot water, soap, and dish cloth ONLY! There are a shit-TON of studies about the harmful effects of chipped Teflon. With cast iron non-stick, if you use a scrub of ANY kind you're scrubbing OFF the seasoning that makes it non-stick. Making it more prone to rust and breakdown. The bamboo brush would be good for non-coated cake pans, or stuck on food. Not really non-stick. Hope this helps❤
You can wet the brush or a dish cloth and rub the bar on it. The soap is transferred to the brush or dish cloth then wash a couple of items. For more washing, rub the bar again.
Thank you for showing how to use those UNpaper cloth towels in the kitchen. I have always wondered how they look and how to keep them nice on the roller. Going to make some now!!
I buy a 40 count of white cheap washcloths to use for spills around the kitchen and separately for the rest of the house gather them up and wash them with my colors. Got 2 kids and 2 dog and cats
Still cheaper. You don't "constantly" clean towels. You have bin for them and wash all at once. Plus, if it's only water let the towel dry out and keep using it.
Microfiber towels work great as well, you don’t need fancy unpaper towels, cheap rags, microfiber, or even up-cycling old clothes are all affordable ways to switch!
i have pets so there is no way id be able to use cloth towels instead of paper towels. id literally have to spend hundreds to have enough to deal with their messes and our own.
I love that you're young, that you're a woman and you're a woman of color because these are all great inspirations. There's too much negativity with people of color on the news and I would like to see more young women of all colors, shapes and sizes getting out there and changing this world. White men had their turn.
LOVE! 🙌🏾😍 *Tip for getting the sticky bits from the labels off of jars- vinegar! Or be like me and just drink your coffee out of a mason jar with a Marinara label and get strange looks. 😅
Thank you for this, my dear. I've been doing this all my life. I very seldom buy jam, or as you call it, jelly. When I was a child, long ago now, we saved the glass jars that it came in, and sterilised them to make our own. And we foraged for fruit, too. Crabapples, (wild apples), blackberries, damsons, to name but a few. The only expenditure was on sugar and pot covers. Still do that to this day. By the way, did you know that by boiling a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda (breadsoda), in a couple of cups of water in a pot in which you've burned food, and leaving it overnight, the burnt food will come off next morning with your wash-up brush? (I'm a mine of useless information!) And, just a quick p.s: Frugality is my middle name! I was born just after WWII, and actually remember rationing. I played, eventually, with the remains of the books of coupons. Everything was in short supply, but looking back, everyone could go away and leave their front doors unlocked, and nobody would break in. We were all equally poor, you see. No-one had anything to steal. So I suppose it's just the way us oldies were reared. And, if we could help, we didn't hinder. So, if I can help...............?
I started cutting up old t-shirts and keeping them in a bin to use instead of paper towels. I don't think I've bought paper towels in 5+ years. I just wash and reuse. And it's something where I really don't want to keep the rag, it's not the end of the world because it's already far outlived its intended lifespan.
This is so cool! I have a degree in Wildlife Science and I love to see people sharing sustainable living. I would add that paper towels are a forest product. When you buy forest products you help to increase the planting and management of trees and healthy forest systems which have great environmental benefits! ❤🌳
But u still own those other products and ur not using them? Isn't that wasteful. I've seen these use these not this video and its like u have a whole plastic bottle of soaps and cleaners just to show
I stopped buying glasses and only used glass jars to drink from. My kids broke so many I was tired of paying out food money when the jars were just as good
I also use old socks and other fabrics that have holes, stains, etc. as polishing and dusting cloths. If a blanket is very worn and not in shape for even donating, I stuff it inside an old pillowcase and seal up and use it as a makeshift pet bed.
Nobody’s asking how you have a bottle of dish soap if you don’t buy bottle dish soap and how you have a plastic sponge if you don’t buy plastic sponges
@@godslittlecrayola That’s good it works for you. I would be cleaning it to often. After I wipe my counter down with Clorox and paper towels I throw it away. Then I’ll use another for my stove throw it away etc. I wouldn’t even want the cloth sitting in my dirty laundry for wash. Even when I wash my face I dry it with a paper towel. I wash my hands a lot I couldn’t keep drying with the same towel multiple times not even twice. Just cooking a meal I’m washing my hands constantly and to me drying your hands over and over with a cloth is unsanitary.
I love the re use of glass jars! I’m a candle maker and small wide mouth jars make the best “testers” I also reuse them for more candles once they’re all burned
I always reuse glass jars that food comes in. I use them myself, as well as for giving Christmas gifts. My daughter and I always give homemade cookies/jams/salsas/ice cream toppings/flavoured oils/etc for Christmas gifts. If we don't have enough jars, I'll buy more from a thrift store (where I've found some gorgeous old Mason and preserving jars). The gift baskets always look awesome with all the different jars and bottles in them. Even the baskets get recycled...most of them have been cycling through the family for years. Some of them are kept, but most end up being used over and over to "wrap" gifts, so they keep getting passed on.
I've always wondered why people used paper towels to clean up. Growing up my mom would take old clothes and we'd reuse them as rags to clean around the house. Still do it even now.
Same
Thats smart
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@@MeusChapeus you need to reeducate yourself.
My favorite thing about this is that it’s a two birds, one stone situation. Save money, and the environment at the same time!🥰
You're not saving the environment 😂 For a start, there is no crisis. Secondly, some rando's on tiktok making money from a trend of not buying plastic straws wouldn't make a dent in it if there was.
@@CannabrannaLammer You’re right! Consumers making these small changes alone would not solve the enormous amount of landfill and plastic waste being produced, as a large quantity comes from the waste produced directly by large corporations and businesses. We may not be in a commonly visible crisis yet, but you wouldn’t wait to get the flu to get a flu shot, right? What making these types of small conscious decisions will do is at least delay the amount that is getting thrown out until there are better policies to regulate material usage and disposal better. At this time, our technologies and infrastructure can’t support the recycling practices we claim to be succeeding at since there is simply too much to process. I agree that some content creators make money off dumb trends… but many creators such as the one from this video seem to just want to share some great tips that maybe someone didn’t get the chance to learn yet. Plus, it’s completely up to you at the end of the day what you choose to do with the info 🙂
@@CannabrannaLammer lmaooo you are so oblivious to the real world of you genuinely think there is no crisis. Must be sad.
@Manda have you see the garbage mountains in the ocean? Also my country is directly being affected by climate change and pollution. Making talk less crap and do some research. You're so privileged you think nothing is happening. It's not all doom and gloom but there is a problem.
@@CannabrannaLammerwoah. You can make the argument that one person won’t make a huge difference (it’s really about spreading it to more people), but denying climate change altogether? Do you live under a rock? Do you ever go outside? Spreading this type of misinformation is dangerous!!
Paper towels are good in cases where something is really gross , something you don't want in the wash like paint or a chemical, or if a mess contains broken glass. Don't want shards in a towel and in the wash. Ever broken a glass bottle of pancake syrup? You can't just sweep that up easy peasy.
Edit: This seems to be a very contentious topic. We do use cloth in our home too. I just wanted to point out there are unavoidable exceptions. I have those stacks of bar mops you can buy anywhere, like Sam's. Those are our "clean up towels" for counters, table tops, spills, wiping down anything that needs it. And I have old bath towels cut in half for those giant messes that can happen (like vomit). We have a big family and if I relied on paper towels alone, not only would we cause a lot of waste, we'd spend a lot of money. I also have used cloth diapers on my kids for years, mainly because I feel like it's more healthy than a paper and plastic diaper filled with tons of chemicals. Just how I feel. I prefer cotton underwear to synthetic so I assume they would too. The fact that cloth diapers cause less waste is just a nice bonus.
All cloths and all used t-shirts are even great ideas to sap up those dirty messes
So true!! Not everything belongs in the washer for reuse yikes!😅
@@Gladiator_in_a_Suitu guys never wash with hands???
What abt inner wears???
Genuinely asking.
Yep. Sorry, not sorry, not giving up paper towels. There are certain substances requiring mop-up from time to time that require an absorbent that is thrown out after one use. And newsflash, if you use a cloth rag to mop up a spilled chemical, it still ends up in a landfill.
A piece of bread works better than anything to get little glass shards up! But yes, paper towels are meant to be thrown away and used for gross stuff for sure!
I love this!!! Just as an extra reminder, please remember the waste in our planet is hardly our fault, big corporations produce 99% of the waste that’s killing our planet. Try to find ways to advocate for a change in laws and legislations surrounding the matter as well
I remember as a child soda came in bottles with a 2c return on each bottle Then they changed to plastic and it’s the consumers fault? Just venting 😊 be Blessed 💜
Lovely idea!
What? Just because you didn't produce it, then it's not your fault, but with all the knowledge about the damage you still choose to buy their products.
@@yes12337 I somewhat agree with you and totally support your attitude, however in our economy ethical consumerism is close to impossible. Majority of products are only affordable if they are stored in cheap and harmful plastic packaging. Places who produce and sell in environmentally friendly / zero waste ways are only affordable if the company has made the choice to underpay employees, particularly those at the root of their production (e.g. for Coca Cola it would be the sugar beet farms). Until there are laws to force corporations to pay everyone a fair wage and source ingredients ethically, they will continue to produce unethically for a cheaper price, which wipes out any competitors that try to do the right thing.
Hell yeah! Tell us! 💕
I keep a roll of paper towels around for the worst of the worst messes. I have cats. But that's maybe one or two rolls per year. Otherwise I keep old towels and rags for all other household cleaning. Being frugal isn't always pretty but it should be sanitary! 😊
I was about to say! I have to have paper towels to clean up my cat’s messes. But other than that I try and use microfiber cloths as much as possible.
Luv that comment 🎉
Yes, and even then I try to buy paper towels made from recycled materials, and save on the gas and electricity usage for more laundry ✌️
I love your sanity. People are losing their minds in the comments because they don’t seem to understand you can have both.
@@Samlovescornbread Thanks, Sam. It's like trying to get to infinity and beyond! Zero waste, minimalism, green living...they are wonderful concepts to inspire us but we never truly arrive there. Unless we go into the wilderness and cut ourselves off from modern living completely. And eat and use only what we produce! We can, however, cut way back on consumerism and actually be happier, healthier and richer from the effort! 🤗👍
I am a stained glass artist, and I always save everything glass. I get mortified that so much glass gets thrown away. If people only knew what it takes to make every glass jar.
If there is a local bar you
could ask for some of their
throw a ways.
I would be happy to donate to a local artist if I knew how to find one.
I agree - but I have 0 use for it & have no idea what to do with it lol
@@kirsten007
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Even worse when you know glass is recyclable 😑 also, stained glass is a rad medium to work with! 😊
We need some vlogz on the zero waste lifestyle. I'm here for it.
Not me. I’m tired of these “alternative” lifestyles being rubbed in our face. If god didn’t want us to use plastic he wouldn’t have let it be discovered. 😂
I know right? It's nice to make a difference no matter how small ❤
Maybe big companies will catch on and stop spewing waste into the air and water 😂
@@pgarciaAP Well, I do get tired of trying to find ways around using plastic. But it's everywhere and there is only so much recycling or repurposing one can do! I do my best and try not to feel bad at the trash I do generate. And not be preachy with others. 😚😳
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@@alphamail8974We'll see. I'm sure they could care less..
I can recommend you coconut fiber sponge/ scratcher. It gets out all the burned stuff in the pot and anything that is really stuck.
Where can I purchase the coconut fiber sponge?
@@jladylove1 That depends on the country too, I guess. I'm from Germany and I would get it mostly online, in some Unverpackt Laden (a store that sells unpackaged goods and ppl weigh and use their own containers) or Reformhaus (health food shop?).
Amazon has bio degradeable coconut scrubbers.
Walnut fiber works well too! I found mine at target
Thanks!
Who sells it? Awesome idea
Cloth paper towels actually don't save me money.. I have to travel to wash them, pay a premium to wash/dry, & they always end up stinking because the hot water washes cost $1 more at the laundromat. 🤷🏽♀️
You can just throw them all into a pot after hand wash and boil them
Soak them in hot water and buy a washboard to use in your sink and use oxiclean or borax with your detergent to clean them. As far as napkins for eating use dinner cloth napkins.
What on earth do you need to use paper towels for? I use 3 small microfibre cloths in a week and they take up no extra space in my washing machine on cold wash tossed in with whatever else I am washing. I also use 3 tea towels in a week. If something is very sticky I use a small piece of toilet paper- but that is no more than once a month - never more often. I think you should try to pay more attention when and why and how you use paper towels.
Love this.... I have been a zero waster for a while and my neighbors are like, " how come your garbage can is always so empty?"
That question never lets me down!
Simply teaching by doing!...❤it!
There was an old lady in the neighborhood her garbage can was always empty .She wasnt upcycling she was just hoarding things😂
@@zfaki1919😆
@@zfaki1919 well that's one way of doing things. 🤭🤣
@@zfaki1919 unexpected ending 😂
We reuse all our glass jars. My fiancé drinks his coffee out of a mason jar like a Pinterest mom 😅❤
"Follow my morning beauty routine...but first,coffee!" - your boyfriend 😂😂😂😂😂
@@veganpelosanimais1216 😂😂 I have a shirt that says ‘this girl runs on coffee and Jesus’ I actually plan to start making my own bc Etsy shirts are $25-$50 each and I only make $15/hr so as much as I’d like to support others I can’t afford it but still need some shirts bc I have like 3.
I want to open a shop but need to figure out how to get it set with taxes.
I have a friend that seems to know everything and everyone lol so I’ll ask him.
Thanks for sharing these tips and promoting low waste vs excessive spending and materialism! The planet needs more like you!
Yeah but it's not gonna do much good for regular average people to do all that but elites n super rich aren't gonna do those things they're gonna continue to live their same lifestyles
It comes off as fake when she wearing acrylic disposable nails. 🤷🏾♀️
@@mickeyoshea2035weirdo spotted
@@agirl2094 explain how acrylic nails are zero waste? 🤷🏾♀️
Now I ain't claiming to be "zero waste" because that is damn near impossible and I'm not a hypocrite.
@@parisn6624 good points. And elite rich folks create the most waste meanwhile they have the means to decrease it but greed is a helluva drug.
The only thing I'm unsure of are the cloth towels. Is the electricity and water required to wash them truly a better tradeoff to buying biodegradable paper towels? 🤔 But I'm really impressed with the other tips, especially the bamboo brush! I hate sponges
The paper towels can also go in the compost after your done with them. Also you can buy paper towels that were 100 new paper. I agree with you too much to wash towels instead of just using a paper towel .
…yes most, including my front loader washer and dryer are H.E. They only use a small amount of water and lower wattage electricity.
Not a waste at all you have to wash towels anyways, if your towels are clean enough to use on your face or as napkins why would washing you cloth towels be a waste instead of paper towels.Make it make sense😮
paper towels may not always be biodegradable depending on what you used them to clean up, also when in a landfill biodegradable items are not actually able to breakdown properly so they’re not actually degrading. if you have a compost bin paper towels make great brown product as long as it wasn’t used with any harsh cleansers or something of the sort
If you research, you'll find out that paper products take an insane amount of water to manufacture.
My asian family been using old clothes as rugs and as a replacement for paper towels for years its a great way to save money😅😅
I use a dishrag for my dishes; sponges have always grossed me out, especially because they start to smell so quickly. But paper towels are a hill I’m going to die on until they’re to expensive to reason with it lol. I just don’t feel like doing that much washing.
The dish rag you use to wash dishes. Before you wash it out put a little bleach onto it. Then wash it out and then pour some hot water and vinegar onto it. Let that cool down, then let dry it shouldn't be smelling after. Do it after every use at night before going to bed you shouldn't have no problem after.
@@tannnielyeah I let mine soak in the sink with a little bleach and hot water. Takes stains out too!
See im the opposite. The thought of using a dish rag makes me vomit! 🤢 idk something just grosses me out about that. I also dont use one to bathe either! 😂 loofah all the way. Maybe its a texture thing? Idk .. but im also not the one who stops a sink and fills it up with water and soap and washes all 20 dishes that are covered in food and funk...in that same nasty water from the previous ones! 😂 am i the only one!?
What on earth do you need to use paper towels for? I use 3 small microfibre cloths in a week and they take up no extra space in my washing machine on cold wash tossed in with whatever else I am washing. I also use 3 tea towels in a week. If something is very sticky I use a small piece of toilet paper- but that is no more than once a month - never more often. I think you should try to pay more attention when and why and how you use paper towels.
@@mommyof3girlsthat why people do things like rinse each dish after scrubbing it in hot soapy water- have you ever heard of that mommy of 3 girls?
This is random but I wanted to share. My grandma uses a wash towel (a small towel designed for watching dishes… it’s non abrasive so it doesn’t scratch her pans.) for washing her dishes. Then she puts them in the dishwasher (she lives on a ranch so she washes her dishes by hand then washed them again in the dishwasher 😂.) she has crocheted clothe scrubber. Again, it doesn’t screech or ruin her pans. I think it’s genius.
Food scraps are given to the chickens/cat/dog. Probably not the healthiest thing but it keeps the animals from getting into the trash bags since there was no food thrown into the trash can or trash bag I should say.
Large milk jars are perfect for storing flour and sugar due to its wide brim… there are other jars that have wide brims now but that’s what my grandma uses and I think she’s awesome
(I’m 24, female…)
Thank you and grandma for these tips ❤😊
Love old/farm tips. Practical most of the time lol . Also love finding other 24yr old females haha makes me feel less alone somehow
Did the dish towels come out clean out of the dish washer?
Wtf is a milk jar?
And please don't feed your pets table scraps - a lot has changed with companion animals due to breeding, even since your grandma's time.
Life on a ranch is so different from life in a city.
You can also recycle your plastic and glass. I'm going to use paper towels as long as they make em.
Look up where your plastic recycling goes... It's almost certainly sent to a landfill in another country. It's the sad, shameful truth about recycling: most of it still ends up in the trash. 😥
Reducing plastic is always a good thing, but remember that 70% of plastic in the ocean is from commercial fishing nets and individual consumer actions are not nearly as effective as industry regulation for reducing plastic waste!
If that's the problem you want to point out then you should feel obligated to come up with a solution. It's not like these higher up people aren't taking into account this statistic. It's hard to regulate something so isolated. Each fishing boat will need to be inspected frequently. Each inspector will need to be paid. The inspector will need a list of regulations that these boats need to follow which means laws will need to be passed and both the inspectors and crew of the fishing boats need to actually care for why these regulations are in place. Work at any fast food place and you'll see how careless people are towards regulations when the authority isn't around which points us back at how frequently you'll need to inspect these boats at work. But this is all without mentioning things like chinese fishing boats. Can we let China solve the problem themselves or do we have to intervene. Intervention is bound to put us in war but leaving them be is bound to letting them destroy necessary ecosystems if they don't solve the issue. You can't just bring up a statistic and pin the responsibility on someone else when the responsibility is all of ours
And also another thing that went without mention is the pollution in our local ecosystems that pose the same threats as the plastic in the ocean. I know for a fact that that trash was put there by consumers. The amount of trash found in cities that end up in waterways and bodies of water is astounding. This is a problem that can most definitely be changed by consumer choices and one that must be changed. We can't play the blame game and pin the responsibility on whoever is in power. We must make our own changes and rise into these positions of power if we really want to create the world we want to live in
Thank you sister. I started my zero waste journey 3 years ago. The dish soap idea just got me closer. Liking and following. I'm looking forward to Part Deux.
I never understood why people threw away their pasta sauce jars. 70% of my cups are glass pasta sauce jars, pickle jars, jam jars
So what do you do when it’s too many jars in the house?
@@maridelatte6824hoard them like a mental patient
Cause we want too lol glasses are a $1
Toddlers don't do well with glass cups.
@@maridelatte6824 Glass can be recycled too :) I am sure they have a recycling program they can collect their extra glass jars and bottles for. That’s what we do where I live, at least.
A reason for glass bottles: it's more efficient for storage when all of them are the same size/shape.
That’s aesthetics not efficiency
@@meks194 I litarly just said it's efficiënt for storage 😵💫 different sizes and shapes of packaging leaves a lot of empty space but all the same shape means they all fit neat next to eachother. So in my opinion that's pretty efficiënt 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@@meks194some people might require that level of efficiency. I guess it just depends on how and what you're storing and how much space you have
I agree with you tho. I think most people do it for esthetics rather than efficiency
@@meks194 its both, try matching up lids on similar sizes, it can be a pain
My grandma is 95 and grew up during the depression and is the definition of zero waste 🩷🩷 Never know if you’ll open the sour cream and find sour cream or leftover pasta. She uses shower caps she can wash to cover her bowls instead of plastic wrap and has never bought a paper towel. Simply rags for different messes. Love this.
Shower cap bowl covers are actually genius!
I've covered bowls with walmart bags, but a shower cap sounds like a good idea 👌
@@valerierogers9609I have used any of the grocery plastic bags, as well as Walmart, etc.
Hugs for Grandma
Not to be rude but you know eating leftover pasta after it's been in the fridge after it's been cooked can actually make you sick I've watched a video of a guy ate five day old pasta that was cooked and he ended up very sick came to find out the pasta was moldy he put it in the fridge after he cooked it and didn't eat it till 5 five days later ended up in the hospital..
I already have a jar and bottle hoarding problem. I used to work at a high end cocktail bar and the pretty bottles what came from there and they were just going to bin it are still part of my collection.
There are You Tube display ideas
and glass bottle craft videos.
Some of the ideas are easy
and pretty.
Maybe you can sell the wider mouth ones to candle makers, there are so many in the market. Personally I would buy them from you and make you a beautiful candle to make you feel happy you decided to pass them on.
I wouldn’t use that bamboo scrubber for a year….
If you soak it in boiling water and antibacterial cleaning, it's fine. Also pour boiling water over your wooden cutting boards and wooden utensils to sanitize.
Im sorry i love my paper towels and dish soap but i do get your point 😂❤❤
So proud of you! I wish more young people would embrace this into there lives😊
Literaly every German ever. Also some stuff dosnt cost money but a whole lot of spoons. And not everyone has a huge supply of those... If you don't know what I mean than you likely have plenty.
we totally would if it we didn't have to alter every single aspect of how we live
Ma am 😂 You lost me on the Paper towels
Your addicted to throwing your money away.
I use old cut up sheets. I truly don't feel a difference. I could see why you'd want paper towels if you had pets, but that's about it
@Jess J There are definitely some pet messes you don't want to reuse the cloth after! Even then, I mostly just pick a threadbare cloth and throw it out. I keep a BIG basket of cloth rags, and every few years buy a pack of paper towels to keep on hand , more for direct contact food use than anything else.
I’m with you! Give me my paper towels. Aint nobody got time to be washing 100 cloths a day tryjng to reuse them.
Why
The salsa I love comes in a beautiful jar that also has measurements on the side!! I have too many! ❤😊
Can I ask what brand? Because that sounds perfect
@peggybaby0894 PLEASE do tell🙏🏽 We wanna know ❤!!!
At least you know the amount you've used and when to refill!
Aldi's use to have pasta sauce glass jars that use to have measurements on the sides but they got rid of them I liked those jars..
Where there’s a will, there is a way! Thanks for the recommendations!
I up cycled a cookie cooling wire rack from dollar tree. I took 4 of them to make a grid, connecting with wire ties, I made the perfect drying mat over your sink and for most of the silverware I stick in the grids they hang there and dry fast. I also took their wire baskets and cut one up to use as dividers in the other one and I attached that to my wire rack and now I have two places for silverware!!
Great idea 😮😅
That’s commendable., however it’s not up cycling , it’s just using a newly purchased product in its non intended way. If you had those items laying around the house , and you repurposed them - then you’re up cycling. My apologies for man-spraining . Keep on deducing that carbon footprint. 😊
@@redsboy952 🤔 what a nice way to rain on my parade!! Your comment not needed!
@@redsboy952 oh and I had that stuff for years...did I say I bought or it's new. No I didn't!!
@@zoebear1992 lol grow up. They made a valid point, it’s not up-cycling. You don’t get to say a comment is not needed just because you don’t like it.
That bamboo dishwasher brush is gonna be a bacteria bomb, same with the dish soap bar unless its covered🙈
Soap doesn’t build bacteria dawg.
@@MirthMamaexactly what I was thinking
If you're worried you can always rinse off the bar of soap
Pretty sure all forms of scrubbers are “bacteria bombs”
The bamboo brush won’t hold as much bacteria like sponges and regular rags
Still use sponges for cups and glasses! Just make sure it’s biodegradable
I love upcycling glass jars. And Ive been making my own soap for 3 years.
Recipe for soap bars? 👀❗✨
@Azy-al I sell my soap so I wouldn't give my recipe away but there are many people on yt who do give out recipes
That paper towel trick is going to help so much ❤ thanks for all these tips
I have been saving all my prego jars for my juice, smoothies, dried beans and pasta. I love it
What do you do to keep the lud out of rust?
True. I've actually bought items I didn't need just to get the pretty glass bottle they came in.
Canning is why I buy glass jars. You can't can with everything.
I love you girl, so sensible!!! Greetings from Ghana in West Africa
I have the "unpaper" towels but there are still situations where I need paper towels. Cleaning the bathroom and when preparing raw meat.
Yep, use a soap bar for your hair too. Buy white vinegar in a glass bottle if you need a hair rinse. (A tablespoon with a pint of water.) It’s also what I use to get soap out of the laundry during the rinse cycle.
Yes! My fiance and I have been moving to zero waste. It's been harder for him but we are getting there.
I put grey wash clothes in little baskets in each bathroom, cut up old towels and put them under my sink and have reusesble paper towel rolls….i save hundreds every year. It’s kinda crazy. You do laundry anyway….so it’s literally saving a step. And reduces trash by soooo much. I also use rubber lids for stuff instead of plastic wrap. And reusesble ziplocks. I wasn’t even planning to be a zero waste person but the logic and simplicity totally makes it worth it for me.
I totally agree. I am so grateful. You put this on video posting more of these videos will help the communities and our whole environment. Thank you so much
By the way your ideas are very innovative and I hope it catches on quickly
Love these tips 👏🏻
Wait hold on… I wanna know more about the pineapple looking plant propagated in the end!!!
My mexican household always does this and then we use them to also store chilleh and beans
I love being mexican
Lol no comment
@@girlonlaptop you commented though 🥴
Love your ideas. Gracias mija!
I love how proud Mexicans are! ❤
Black Americans been doing this. My grandmother passed a lot down. We use those mason jars for everything lol
I make many of my own recipes, but I have a favorite pasta sauce that comes in a glass jar. I save every one. They are the perfect size for my spice blends, kitchen ingredients, etc.
How do you clean your glasses and mugs with the brush? I'm just curious.
I'm not sure how she does it, but I personally use dish towels for glasses.
I use a cotton dish cloth. I buy ones that are color fast or white background. To sanitize I can put 1 or 2 in a glass bowl with one teaspoon of bleach in the water. 5 min soak, et Voila!
You may think that's too much. Ok, Sanitize on the run. After washing the dishes, wash the cloth with just plain soap & rinse. Get your Dollar tree spray bottle from under the sink, lie the cloth flat in the sink. Spray the cloth until it saturated with 70% Isopropyl Alcohol; et Voila, sanitized on the run. Squeeze out the excess hang to dry on dish rack. Love you -- mean it.
You can't use that germ-filled mold-infested crap,to clean anything after a while.😅
The brush that is standing on the sink (right side)
question on the bamboo brush, is it safe to use on non stick materials?
Like with most things the answer is
It depends, but generally no advised.
Here's a more in-depth breakdown. Do NOT use anything that can chip the coating on Teflon cookware. No metal cooking utensils, no scratcher pads, no bamboo brush. Hot water, soap, and dish cloth ONLY! There are a shit-TON of studies about the harmful effects of chipped Teflon.
With cast iron non-stick, if you use a scrub of ANY kind you're scrubbing OFF the seasoning that makes it non-stick. Making it more prone to rust and breakdown.
The bamboo brush would be good for non-coated cake pans, or stuck on food. Not really non-stick.
Hope this helps❤
I’m curious how the bar is used to wash dishes
You can wet the brush or a dish cloth and rub the bar on it. The soap is transferred to the brush or dish cloth then wash a couple of items. For more washing, rub the bar again.
Thanks for sharing I definitely upcycle glass bottles lol Thanks for sharing your tips
Wow thank you. I'll definitely be buying these. Can you add a link to these products
A lot of the stuff doesn’t work as well as the “wasteful” products.
I'd like to see the products being used if possible.
I need more tips for this zero waste life style. I rarely use paper towels anymore and I had no idea about the dish bar.😮
Thanks for bringing some of these products to my attention! Knowledge is power!
Been watching some of your stuff really enjoying the videos keep them coming girl ❤
You're an inspiration
I am learning so much from your videos! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you for showing how to use those UNpaper cloth towels in the kitchen. I have always wondered how they look and how to keep them nice on the roller. Going to make some now!!
She must live alone. This isn’t going to work at my house.
.. I was thinking that too. Cuz BOY, when you have small kids… cloth towels might just drive a mama crazy… who wants to do laundry EVERY DA Y
I buy a 40 count of white cheap washcloths to use for spills around the kitchen and separately for the rest of the house gather them up and wash them with my colors.
Got 2 kids and 2 dog and cats
I love seeing black women in this space!
They can be mentally ill too
In what space? CZcams?
I love the challenge of reducing my waste. I barely throw out garbage anymore. Most of my weekly waste is composted or recycled
I like your style. I always think about these things, but haven't done as much as I should. Thanks for the encouragement 😊
Have you Calculated the money, water, soap and electricity you use constantly cleaning towls?.
I never thought of it like that
Still cheaper. You don't "constantly" clean towels. You have bin for them and wash all at once. Plus, if it's only water let the towel dry out and keep using it.
And a dishwasher has being proven to be alot greener to run.! Hearing water to wash by hand is a lot more expensive .
@@girlnextdoorgrooming no thank you, I would prefer never to come to your home..your towels are not clean. Only water...yuck..
Where did you purchase the unpaper towels? I’ve seen them on Etsy and they are kinda expensive.
I was just about to ask the same thing. I'd be all for it, but we've been in a drought. Washing clothes like we used to is not an option.
im not sure where they got them but i would reccomend just using actual hand towels instead :)
Microfiber towels work great as well, you don’t need fancy unpaper towels, cheap rags, microfiber, or even up-cycling old clothes are all affordable ways to switch!
Just use cut up towels work the exact same
If you sew you can make your own.
I'm so proud of you sis!! Thank you for posting this helpful video! Much love and support from a fellow environmentalist.
Zero waste living content? SUBSCRIBED! Hi Shavonne! ☺️
Thanks for passing along these tips. Happy weekend 🎉
We use coconut coir for cleaning vessels and scrub for bath
With..but the paper towl thing. Naw sis
Ikr! So tacky
Oh my goodness!! I love this so much! I'm working myself to a life of less waste! You are so creative thank you for the tips!❤
Thank you very much. I've gradually transformed to this style of living & love it. Its much clearer too. Now I'm working on my closet/wardrobe 🤔
I would use the bamboo dish brush
i have pets so there is no way id be able to use cloth towels instead of paper towels. id literally have to spend hundreds to have enough to deal with their messes and our own.
It’s nasty using cloths instead of paper towels. Unsanitary
Newspapers work great for cleaning up after your pets Saves me a lot of money not buying so many paper towels
We need more useful content like this! 🎉thank you!!
Love all of your zero waste solutions
so she wash these cloth towel and roll them back each individually?
Must be nice to have that kind of time.😮
I was lost there too 😑😑😑
I love that you're young, that you're a woman and you're a woman of color because these are all great inspirations. There's too much negativity with people of color on the news and I would like to see more young women of all colors, shapes and sizes getting out there and changing this world. White men had their turn.
LOVE! 🙌🏾😍 *Tip for getting the sticky bits from the labels off of jars- vinegar! Or be like me and just drink your coffee out of a mason jar with a Marinara label and get strange looks. 😅
Thank you for this, my dear.
I've been doing this all my life.
I very seldom buy jam, or as you call it, jelly.
When I was a child, long ago now, we saved the glass jars that it came in, and sterilised them to make our own.
And we foraged for fruit, too. Crabapples, (wild apples), blackberries, damsons, to name but a few. The only expenditure was on sugar and pot covers.
Still do that to this day.
By the way, did you know that by boiling a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda (breadsoda), in a couple of cups of water in a pot in which you've burned food, and leaving it overnight, the burnt food will come off next morning with your wash-up brush?
(I'm a mine of useless information!)
And, just a quick p.s:
Frugality is my middle name!
I was born just after WWII, and actually remember rationing. I played, eventually, with the remains of the books of coupons.
Everything was in short supply, but looking back, everyone could go away and leave their front doors unlocked, and nobody would break in.
We were all equally poor, you see. No-one had anything to steal.
So I suppose it's just the way us oldies were reared.
And, if we could help, we didn't hinder.
So, if I can help...............?
Must try and find that bamboo dish brush
It's not cheap.
The phrase ;" you can buy..." Cancels your advantage.
Not really
The advantage is the towels, loofah
or clothes can be washed in hot water
in the washing machine .
I started cutting up old t-shirts and keeping them in a bin to use instead of paper towels. I don't think I've bought paper towels in 5+ years. I just wash and reuse. And it's something where I really don't want to keep the rag, it's not the end of the world because it's already far outlived its intended lifespan.
This is so cool! I have a degree in Wildlife Science and I love to see people sharing sustainable living. I would add that paper towels are a forest product. When you buy forest products you help to increase the planting and management of trees and healthy forest systems which have great environmental benefits! ❤🌳
But u still own those other products and ur not using them? Isn't that wasteful. I've seen these use these not this video and its like u have a whole plastic bottle of soaps and cleaners just to show
This
It could be a relative home, friend apt, co worker etc...you only see the products and not the entire location -so she can be anywhere!
Guess I'm surprised at her fingernails...
Thank you. My parents raised me to be an educated consumer. So nice to see another. 💙💙
My family thought I was crazy but the glass jars thing... Been doing it for years (if only I could find the dang lids lol)
The brush will scratch my pans 😅 the reusable towels will need to be washed often so I'll be paying more for water and electricity 😮
Dude most stuff u doo we alredy did cuz poor/ soviet old school living lol the fact people now realise stuff people did globaly in 1950-2000
I stopped buying glasses and only used glass jars to drink from. My kids broke so many I was tired of paying out food money when the jars were just as good
I also use old socks and other fabrics that have holes, stains, etc. as polishing and dusting cloths. If a blanket is very worn and not in shape for even donating, I stuff it inside an old pillowcase and seal up and use it as a makeshift pet bed.
Nobody’s asking how you have a bottle of dish soap if you don’t buy bottle dish soap and how you have a plastic sponge if you don’t buy plastic sponges
Zero waste my ass. And most of those items are more expensive up front
I just saw and responded to the plastic containers video!!! More great ideas!!! Thanks🤗🤗🤗
Thank you for the ideas!
What are glass jars even used for? I use the same vase whenever I get new flowers.
All that is unsanitary. Nasty
Well I have to have paper towels ,and the government recycle everything and resell it to you again soooooooo
Nope works if you clean it well.
@@godslittlecrayola That’s good it works for you. I would be cleaning it to often. After I wipe my counter down with Clorox and paper towels I throw it away. Then I’ll use another for my stove throw it away etc. I wouldn’t even want the cloth sitting in my dirty laundry for wash. Even when I wash my face I dry it with a paper towel. I wash my hands a lot I couldn’t keep drying with the same towel multiple times not even twice. Just cooking a meal I’m washing my hands constantly and to me drying your hands over and over with a cloth is unsanitary.
I love the re use of glass jars! I’m a candle maker and small wide mouth jars make the best “testers” I also reuse them for more candles once they’re all burned
I always reuse glass jars that food comes in. I use them myself, as well as for giving Christmas gifts. My daughter and I always give homemade cookies/jams/salsas/ice cream toppings/flavoured oils/etc for Christmas gifts. If we don't have enough jars, I'll buy more from a thrift store (where I've found some gorgeous old Mason and preserving jars). The gift baskets always look awesome with all the different jars and bottles in them. Even the baskets get recycled...most of them have been cycling through the family for years. Some of them are kept, but most end up being used over and over to "wrap" gifts, so they keep getting passed on.