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What use & toss habit(s) are you trying to kick in 2011? Leave us a comment and you could win a $50 gift certificate to our store to get started. We'll choose a random winner in one week - Jan. 18, 2011. Good luck with the giveaway and with your resolutions!
I would LOVE to quit the awful habit of using paper towels for everyday kitchen jobs in my household. I feel so guilty everytime I use one! I also have the bad habit of using plastic sandwich bags. I try to reuse them as much as possible before throwing one away, but eliminating them altogether would be my ultimate goal.
Posted by: Christa | January 11, 2011 at 08:58 AM
Since we've already replaced paper towels and napkins with cloth and only buy recycled toilet paper, the last disposable paper product we use in our house is tissues and I'm trying to find small, thin handkerchiefs that will work for my family of 5, including 3 young boys. I would also love to get some reusable wraps to replace my plastic wrap, which I still ocassionally use. Finally, I'd love to buy some produce bags. I always take my reusable grocery bags and feel like a hypocrite using the plastic produce bags! I absolutely love your site! Thanks so much for the chance to win!!! :)
Posted by: Kate Esaia | January 11, 2011 at 09:00 AM
We have a baby on the way and will be doing all cloth for him, but in the home I am still *trying* to make the switch. Our most used disposable item is . . . sandwich bags. Horrid I know, but DH uses them for work, and it is hard to find the "right" reusable items when on a tight budget.
Posted by: E.Nikol Brown | January 11, 2011 at 09:14 AM
I have switched to re-usable sandwich and snack bags in my children's lunch boxes this year, have also changed my dish washing habits, and with our new baby we are using cloth diapers, but I would love to be able to change my family's high use of paper towels! We have cloth napkins but we only use them when dining at the 'big' table ... maybe I will try harder to use them for general usage too :)
Posted by: karen | January 11, 2011 at 09:37 AM
I'm slowly switching over to cloth bags for produce and bulk foods at the grocery store. I've been using cloth bags to bring my groceries home for a long time, but I've still been using plastic baggies for produce and bulk. I want to end that.
Posted by: Ang | January 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM
We have switched from body wash back to bar soap and would love to find shampoo that isnt in a plastic container (even though we recycle the container)
Posted by: Therese | January 11, 2011 at 10:29 AM
I bring my lunch to work almost every day but I still regret the waste it can generate. Last year I committed to using no plastic ware (thank you to-go ware!) and paper cups at the office and this year i'm stepping it up a notch with reusable sandwich and snack bags and napkins. I bought some for christmas presents for my husband (and myself!) and we are working them into our daily lunch routine.
Posted by: L Higgins | January 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Until I read Kate's comment, it never even occurred to me to try to eliminate facial tissues. I think I will try to reduce both those and paper bathroom cups. But to do the paper bathroom cups, I need a manufacturer's help. I'd like a set of 10 small (3 or 5 oz) cups that nest just like the paper ones do. I also want a dispenser for them (or they need fit in the same ones as the paper cups). Each night my kids can use a new cup. We can stack the dirties for a day or two and I can wash them. Making them in a few different colors would help us keep track. I'm not a germ freak, but during cold season I don't like for them to have to reuse the same cup twice.
Posted by: Lori | January 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM
I would love to get rid of plastic bags entirely, from garbage bags down to food storage. Also plastic containers...hate them...don't like cooking in the microwave at all anymore, but when I need to reheat quicly - especially at work since I have no control over that area...I need items to cook in that are light weight, reusable and won't add to the garbage piles!
Posted by: Deb | January 11, 2011 at 01:10 PM
I also definitely need to kick some common bad habits. The paper towel habit, and the ziploc baggie habit. I am definitely going to try to replace paper towels with I'm not a paper towel towels, or other similar hand towels and cloth napkins, and use reusable bags or other containers.
Posted by: Scasolari | January 11, 2011 at 02:41 PM