bodger
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So! whats the first green thing that you do when you get upin the morning ?
I'm not really thinking of you having a pee in a bucket ! honest.  So ! Just how do you start your green day ?
To get me into the right frame of mind, my little start begins with me not using a shaving foam aerosol. Instead, I foam up my fizzog using a block of soap. Its a start, it gets me in the right frame of mind and then I just go on from there.
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Frewen
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First green thing? hmm, well I don't turn the lights on - I just open the curtains a bit to get enough light to dress by.
Does that count or am I just totally stingy? 
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Green Rosie
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Light the fire - no central heating here
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Jamanda
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Blow my nose at the moment.
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bodger
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Thats green ?  Thats a chest infection
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Treacodactyl
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Re: So! whats the first green thing that you do when you get | bodger wrote: | | I'm not really thinking of you having a pee in a bucket ! honest. |
Actually, IIRC, the first pee in the morning is meant to be the best one for using on the compost heap!
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alisjs
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put tea bag in compost bin!
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| alisjs wrote: | | put tea bag in compost bin! |
that's probably about it I think. Tim does the early morning tea and I know he's hot on only putting enough water in to the kettle for two mugs.
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JB
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Put waste from the night before onto the compost heap and bokashi bins. That's about it then it's either driving to the office or wandering to the study to pretend to work (just like I'm doing now; I'm waiting for a backup to complete honest  )
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Simon
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Coffee!
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JB
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I've heard of green tea but not green coffee 
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Simon
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Missed the 'green' bit. Not had enough coffee yet, sorry.
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Simon
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View latest posts. 
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alisjs
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| Simon wrote: | | Missed the 'green' bit. Not had enough coffee yet, sorry. |
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Helen_A
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Um - check to make sure that dp has turned off the boiler post his shower... (it must be said that he usually causes me to wake up by much stamping as he wrangles his way into the airing cupboard to turn the boiler on so that he won't climb out of shower into 'cooollllldddd'. Fairly pointless though as the so-called radiator in the bathroom is actually a towelrail job and *useless* but replacing it is a long way down the list of priorities....)
Helen_A
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LynneA
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Put the kettle on. Basically we decided to stick with a stove top whistling kettle when the last electric one packed up.
Then have a bowl of cereal - organic chocolate coated oat clusters
Every other day we get our milk delivered as well.
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Rob R
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Turn the radio off & open the window
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Slim
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hmmmm, cooking my rolled oats saves me $ and is most likely far better than conventional cold cereals. Uh... I use a handkerchief instead of kleenex... My TP is made from post-consumer recycled paper? Just how many details that you don't want to know, do you want to know?
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Barefoot Andrew
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Make tea with Fair Trade teabag (whilst hiding box of Nestle shreddies behind back).
A.
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judith
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| cpg03 wrote: | | Just how many details that you don't want to know, do you want to know? |
I think that's probably quite enough details
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alison
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I think mine is a combination af some of the above.
Dress by open curtain light, put kettle on aga, then put teabag into compost bin
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Andrea
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Erm ... have a wee in a bucket if it's still dark / wet! Honest.
We have a dry compost loo only, so all wees are either outside or in a bucket which gets flung on the compost heap.
After that it's chuck the dogs & cats out, get the tea and coffee started & go empty that bucket!
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vegplot
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Feed the cats!
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Behemoth
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Try to lie in bed a little bit longer and thus conserve as many resources as possible.
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Jonnyboy
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Let out the four legged lawnmower.
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Rob R
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | | Let out the four legged lawnmower. |
From the bedroom? 
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VSS
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If you can get dressed by the light from the open curtains in winter, surely you are not getting up early enough?
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Nanny
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| VSS wrote: | | If you can get dressed by the light from the open curtains in winter, surely you are not getting up early enough? |
thereby conserving heat surely
one of us gets up and makes tea with a clipper teabag (fair trade)
i tyr not to turn the heat on, at least it is left on 15
then i go outside and warm myself by doing things instead of just sitting around and getting cold enough to light a fire or turn the heat up
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Rob R
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I think most 'green' things will be conspicuous by what you don't do, rather than what you do
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wellington womble
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mmm - I get up and don't have a shower, don't use any hot water, don't turn on the tap when I clean my teeth, don't turn the light on, wash my face with a flannel which I don't throw out, flush the loo on the short flush, don't out the kettle on and don't put the heating on downstairs, just head out with the dogs to warm up.
Then I drive four miles to work. I've just got a bike, though, so I hope to make that a don't too, soon.
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Nanny
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| Rob R wrote: | | I think most 'green' things will be conspicuous by what you don't do, rather than what you do |
oh you're so pedantic
but that's ok then because i don't turn the heating up till the evening and then it's only till the woodburner kicks in and the heating switches off
so i am right
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Bebo
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Not sure about first thing but last thing is to leave the radiators in the bedroom off and trap farts under the duvet to keep warm.
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Jonnyboy
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| Rob R wrote: | | Jonnyboy wrote: | | Let out the four legged lawnmower. |
From the bedroom? |
I get dressed, walk downstairs, let out the goat, let out the chickens, grab some wood, come back in light the fire and put the kettle on. By this time the puppy has finished his business and I can feed him.
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lottie
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I put the airing rack round the stove when I go to bed after doing the fire and move it away first thing in the morning--must be green 'cos I've given the tumble dryer away
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Nanny
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| lottie wrote: | | I put the airing rack round the stove when I go to bed after doing the fire and move it away first thing in the morning--must be green 'cos I've given the tumble dryer away |
crikey you're brave
and you live in wales as well
i call that above and beyond the call of duty in wales
i am afraid i find the dryer a bit of a necessity when rolf comes in having been dragged round a bit by a horse
i have considered putting him in there on occasion
i refuse to put some of his clothes in the washer till he has hosed them down but drying them is equally as difficult and hanging 3 pairs of jods on the betty maid over the woodburner means that it is going to take a long time to dry a load
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lottie
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I got rid of it for "green" reasons---but not so green  as I gave it away to no.2 son when we moved---young baby, broken washer , no spare cash----so he got my washer and tumble dryer ---I had to get a new washer to fit in here.
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Rob R
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Are driers really that common among DSers?
We never had one until we were given one that someone was throwing out. It only gets used when absolutely necessary though (ie when there's no dry alternative) that we'd quite easily not miss it.
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sean
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We had one of those washer/drier in one jobbies 'cos it came with the flat when we bought it. Don't have a drier now and can't imagine buying one.
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Jonnyboy
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We have one, it gets a fair bit of use in winter. You don't want to know what nurses come home with on their uniforms.
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lottie
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I get the impression from odd comments that quite a lot of D.S's have driers
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Andrea
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| Rob R wrote: | Are driers really that common among DSers?
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We have one, though I can't remember when I last used it. It lives in the bathroom where there's no electricity so using it means hauling it down the garden & clearing a space for it. It sort of puts you off.
I brought it back after we had a few weeks of such miserable damp weather that the washing went mouldy before it got dry.
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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own a dryer here. I try and think about its usage but for example the last 2 days here have been frosty, foggy and very still - towels, bedding and jeans just aren't going to be doing anything on the line out there.
I also find because I use ecover or other eco washing liquid and there isn't such a strong scent, I need to get things dry quickly either drier or a good sunny day or they lose freshness.
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Frewen
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| VSS wrote: | | If you can get dressed by the light from the open curtains in winter, surely you are not getting up early enough? |
You can if the neighbours insist on keeping their outside lights on all night
I do have a drier but it is the gadget of last resort after the driers and radiators have been used, and when I need to put a nappy on the baby.
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judith
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| Rob R wrote: | | Are driers really that common among DSers? |
We were given one a couple of years ago. It has been used twice - for reproofing waterproofs!
Like Andrea's, ours is in an inaccessible spot, so it is easier to dry stuff on racks than to wrestle it out of its hiding place.
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Rob R
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Sounds familiar
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Azura Skye
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when I wake up, I usually go back to sleep.
I am so green.
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Nanny
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i don't like using the dryer, i have put stuff on the betty maid for a couple of days
the problem i find here is that the climate is so wet that stuff doesn't even dry well over the betty maid....and where does all that moisture go?
inot my walls and making my other clothes manky and mouldy, hence the other new acquisition of a dehumidifier
'fraid the dryer stays.....................
neve ruse it in the summer and i always try and dry stuff as much outside as i can but sometimes you just have to do it
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Jamanda
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Clothes horse in front of the fire or stuff over radiators. I think a hot radiator dries stuff faster than a drier anyway.
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James
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we dont have a drier.
The first green thing I do is change my babies reusable nappy.
Then I light a fire from old wood other people in York are chucking out. A few days ago there was skip with HUGE lengths of kiln dried timber just asking to be...um... re-used
Every three days I wash a load of nappies on a cool wash. By the time my partner's finished all the morning chores, the nappies have finished washing & can go on a clothes horse next to the fire. They're dry by mid/late afternoon.
But its what else I do that bugs me. The lights in the bathroom are halogens (becuase the electrician insisted they needed to be 12v)
I always spend longer in the shower than I intend to (becuase its nice & warm). I normally have toast. If I have porridge, I always forget to pre-soak the oats.
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Rob R
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| James wrote: | we dont have a drier.
The first green thing I do is change my babies reusable nappy.
Then I light a fire from old wood other people in York are chucking out. A few days ago there was skip with HUGE lengths of kiln dried timber just asking to be...um... re-used |
Skips? Don't mention skips  A neighbour hired two skips to get rid of his garden wall, he didn't realise we might want the rubble, even though we have a massive hole in the yard with little heaps of rubble in it 
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James
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he didnt offer you the stuff?
I regard skips as 'open season' for their contents.
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Rob R
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We only found out after they'd been taken away & he was complaining about the bill 
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Brandon
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save water by not washing my face, cleaning my teeth, or having a shave
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2steps
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change Jack's cloth nappy
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kevin.vinke
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| Rob R wrote: | Are driers really that common among DSers?
We never had one until we were given one that someone was throwing out. It only gets used when absolutely necessary though (ie when there's no dry alternative) that we'd quite easily not miss it. |
Yes we have one. It´s used for smalls and OH´s Jim Jams and towels she doesn´t like the roughness of air drying. Everything else gets hung on the bannisters and gets dried by the woodstove in the stairwell.
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