Living Mindfully
Make an effort to adopt change that you can maintain within your time and financial constraints. How you live should be easy and comfortable enough that you can sustain it. Browse through for ideas, and get your feet wet. Get in touch, and share any healthy tips or habits you have successfully adopted.
October 25, 2018
This will be more of a bullet point-type post, with suggestions about what you can do to incorporate some (generally free) nature into your fall decor. Enjoy!
In case you have not peeked at my post on the benefits of decorating with natural materials, check it out and discover how natural material decor is so much better for your health and for the environment.
Good Things about Natural Materials:
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1. Add to Your Bath Products
Lavender makes a soothing additive to any of your bath products, whether your soaps or epsom salts. Treat yoself.
2. Gift Tags
Use snippets of fresh or dried lavender to affix to gift tags for simple and beautiful gift-wrapping.
3. Moth-Repelling Sachets
Lavender not only discourages moths from making a meal of your winter sweaters, it keeps them smelling fresh in between washings. Liberally tuck lavender sachets throughout your dresser drawers.
4. Scent Your Wool Dryer Balls
As a follow-up to the third tip, and for extra bug-fighting powers for your clothes, dropper several drops of lavender essential oil on your wool dryer balls.
5. Dried Lavender in Wreaths
Dried lavender makes attractive and lasting arrangements in grapevine wreaths for all seasons.
Top 5 Uses for Lavender:
Eco Habits to Try Out
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Don't drive when you can walk or bike
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Eat one more home-cooked meal per week
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Eat one fewer meat meal per week
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If you eat out (try to avoid takeout/delivery), bring your own containers to take home leftovers
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Travel by train when you can
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Grow houseplants; better yet, grow edible houseplants; grow perennial edibles in your garden beds
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Make your own cookies, don't buy store-bought
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Give soap nuts a try for laundry, instead of brand-named liquid, scented laundry detergent
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Use cloth napkins (you can find so many of these at thrift stores)
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Consider a bidet in lieu of toilet paper
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Line dry clothes (particularly whites outside when you can)
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Switch to a safety razor, instead of disposable bladed razors
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Bring your own: reusable bags, takeaway containers, go cups, refillable bulk containers