The Green Mahma.comGoing Green Tips for Moms

Patti and I were delighted to have a guest appearance from Tommy from the You Gotta Be Kidding Georgia Recycling Campaign at the Bluebird Market in Thomaston Georgia. Tommy is one of the characters who claims he doesn’t recycle because we can always find a planet somewhere else on which to live once we trash this one.

Find out more about recycling in your community at YouGottaBeKidding.org.

I switched from a 6 gallon a minute shower head (quite reluctantly) to a low flow shower head and didn’t miss my old shower head as much as I expected.

In fact, when the electricity and water bills came in less, I really liked the low flow shower head even better. The new models have an aerator so it feels like you are getting more water than you are.

Changing to a low flow shower head will save you between $50-75 on water bills and $20-50 on energy bills to heat the water (depending on your usage and local utility rate.)

Read this and more at my Squidoo Lens, How to Save Money Going Green.

Recently, I wrote about some easy ways to go green that actually save you money.
One of the tips I wrote about was using reusable shopping bags instead of asking for paper or plastic. I think it’s common knowledge that we are wasting resources and filling our landfills with all the bags we use.

Now, my husband does a lot of the shopping, so the burden of going green while shopping was placed on him. I had ordered some reusable bags and off he went to the store.

He told me he was really nervous about it, because no one in our small town was doing such a thing and he was afraid of the reaction of everyone.

But, he and our daughter found the courage and did it anyway.

I got a phone call while he was at the check out stand. “Where did you get these bags? I’ve got a lady here in line with me who wants to get some. And there is another lady standing here reusing her bags because her husband insisted she not waste the bags they had a home.”

That was so funny. He was very nervous and it was awkward, but it got a lot of positive attention and even converted one more person to make a change.

Have you used reusable bags? If so, what was the reaction of others in line? Is it common where you shop? Please comment and let us know.

Read more at Save Money Going Green.