Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Resolution #7: Reduce our water usage by 8%

This one will take a little more patience and practice. Right now, I am just guessing at what will and will not work. So far, we have made some slight changes:

1. We have adjusted the floating arm on our Master Bath Toilet to require less water on refills. For 10 days... no trouble... we'll probably do it to the other two as well.

2. Thanks to Rocking Green and my homemade bathroom sanitizer, I am able to wash diapers every 3 days instead of every 2. I spritz tired covers that are not dirty, but not rosy. They smell good, are somewhat disinfected and we have stretched their use to all day or almost all day instead of one or two changes. Also, I sewed more diapers so that my stash could stretch.

3. Shorter showers... not sure if we really are taking shorter showers, but oh well.

We'll see how we did at the end of the month!

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