Comments on: Choose Cloth http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/ Think. Dream. Dance. Love. Worship. Be. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zola http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-31623 Zola Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:53:21 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-31623 I'm really intrigued by this... Your wet wipe solution...do you use a particular recipe or do you just sorta guess at the proportions for the ingredients? I’m really intrigued by this…

Your wet wipe solution…do you use a particular recipe or do you just sorta guess at the proportions for the ingredients?

]]> By: Claude Russek http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-29608 Claude Russek Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:40:35 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-29608 This is true for most people. Most people want to be eco-friendly but for the most part at least currently sometimes going green is not financially a good idea. This is true for most people. Most people want to be eco-friendly but for the most part at least currently sometimes going green is not financially a good idea.

]]> By: Jannie Morentin http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-29596 Jannie Morentin Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:14:07 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-29596 This is true for most people. Most people want to be eco-friendly but for the most part at least currently sometimes going green is not financially a good idea. This is true for most people. Most people want to be eco-friendly but for the most part at least currently sometimes going green is not financially a good idea.

]]> By: Madeleine Booth-Smits http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-29550 Madeleine Booth-Smits Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:34:08 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-29550 Thanks for this post – great to know there are others out there like me. I wrote a similar post on my blog, please check it out on: http://nzecochick.blogspot.com/2011/06/oh-cloth-how-i-love-thee.html Have a great day. Sending cloth love from New Zealand, NZ Ecochick. Thanks for this post – great to know there are others out there like me. I wrote a similar post on my blog, please check it out on: http://nzecochick.blogspot.com/2011/06/oh-cloth-how-i-love-thee.html Have a great day. Sending cloth love from New Zealand, NZ Ecochick.

]]> By: soulflower http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-25422 soulflower Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:41:20 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-25422 @Sara ~ By the way, i have, since reading your blog, implemented the use of family cloth. Been meaning to post an update on here. I use it for #1 and #2, although I'm not using it exclusively for either -- which means i'm not using bathroom tissue exclusively for either. :) For #2, i usually use it as a backup to toilet tissue, like the wet wipes that i was sadly thinking i was gonna have to give up in the interest of frugality. This is much better than those commercial brand wet wipes, and much more comfortable -- luxurious, even! -- than toilet tissue. I'm using a 50/50 cotton/bamboo fleece. Also using a cut-up cotton t-shirt for pee. Bought the fleece before i found out about its water repelling properties, but it works for me. I soak it in warm water just before using, and like i said, it is luxurious. :) I also started using mama cloth. Wish i had started that a long time ago, but i didn't know how economical it would be to start up. I always thought there were only like 1 or 2 companies that did mama cloth (of course, i didn't know it by that name, so i wasn't looking in the right places). Didn't know about all the many women making it in their homes and selling it so inexpensively on eBay, etc. Mama cloth is wonderful! I see why when women switch to it, they don't go back to disposable! @Sara ~ By the way, i have, since reading your blog, implemented the use of family cloth. Been meaning to post an update on here. I use it for #1 and #2, although I’m not using it exclusively for either — which means i’m not using bathroom tissue exclusively for either. :) For #2, i usually use it as a backup to toilet tissue, like the wet wipes that i was sadly thinking i was gonna have to give up in the interest of frugality. This is much better than those commercial brand wet wipes, and much more comfortable — luxurious, even! — than toilet tissue. I’m using a 50/50 cotton/bamboo fleece. Also using a cut-up cotton t-shirt for pee. Bought the fleece before i found out about its water repelling properties, but it works for me. I soak it in warm water just before using, and like i said, it is luxurious. :) I also started using mama cloth. Wish i had started that a long time ago, but i didn’t know how economical it would be to start up. I always thought there were only like 1 or 2 companies that did mama cloth (of course, i didn’t know it by that name, so i wasn’t looking in the right places). Didn’t know about all the many women making it in their homes and selling it so inexpensively on eBay, etc. Mama cloth is wonderful! I see why when women switch to it, they don’t go back to disposable!

]]> By: soulflower http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-25421 soulflower Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:28:45 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-25421 Of which God do you speak? In Deut. 23:12,13, God instructs His people that when they have to "use the bathroom", as we say, that they were to find a place outside the camp, dig a hole with their shovel, poop in the hole, then cover it up. To follow your logic would mean that even wiping our butts is "new age". And why would it be weird to use cotton and wash and reuse it (it's softer, more comfortable, and much less wasteful)? Why would that be weird compared to our decimating the land with all our mass destruction of trees (consider the millions of trees sacrificed for our wiping our hands, mouths, and butts (paper towels, napkins, toilet tissue)? Are we not to be good stewards of the land that the Lord has entrusted to us? Big business and marketing have made people closed minded to that which is good and slaves to that which is most destructive. We are "watching ourselves". I am constantly being guided, taught, and reproved by the Spirit of the living God (not by new age philosophies) about what i do with the Lord's money and other resources. Of which God do you speak? In Deut. 23:12,13, God instructs His people that when they have to “use the bathroom”, as we say, that they were to find a place outside the camp, dig a hole with their shovel, poop in the hole, then cover it up. To follow your logic would mean that even wiping our butts is “new age”. And why would it be weird to use cotton and wash and reuse it (it’s softer, more comfortable, and much less wasteful)? Why would that be weird compared to our decimating the land with all our mass destruction of trees (consider the millions of trees sacrificed for our wiping our hands, mouths, and butts (paper towels, napkins, toilet tissue)? Are we not to be good stewards of the land that the Lord has entrusted to us? Big business and marketing have made people closed minded to that which is good and slaves to that which is most destructive. We are “watching ourselves”. I am constantly being guided, taught, and reproved by the Spirit of the living God (not by new age philosophies) about what i do with the Lord’s money and other resources.

]]> By: Natlee http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-24529 Natlee Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:35:17 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-24529 i think your all wird and odd god wants us to fine good ways to live and beter ways but this is new age crap and u best watch your self ha i think your all wird and odd god wants us to fine good ways to live and beter ways but this is new age crap and u best watch your self ha

]]> By: soulflower http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-23633 soulflower Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:23:36 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-23633 I want to clarify what i said about washing bathroom towels w/ kitchen ones. I have not implemented the use of cloth toilet paper yet, as i am just finding out about it tonight. So currently, my bathroom towels & washcloths are not soiled, and i am trusting the warm/hot water and detergent to clean everything (i normally like to use Borax in the wash, which i think is sanitizing). After reading up on family cloths tonight, i'm convinced that i should start using them for pee only. My current living situation makes it tricky for me to use them for poo. Maybe in the future when i have a more permanent and private home, more of a routine, time & materials to set up a system, hotter water to wash with, etc. I want to clarify what i said about washing bathroom towels w/ kitchen ones. I have not implemented the use of cloth toilet paper yet, as i am just finding out about it tonight. So currently, my bathroom towels & washcloths are not soiled, and i am trusting the warm/hot water and detergent to clean everything (i normally like to use Borax in the wash, which i think is sanitizing). After reading up on family cloths tonight, i’m convinced that i should start using them for pee only. My current living situation makes it tricky for me to use them for poo. Maybe in the future when i have a more permanent and private home, more of a routine, time & materials to set up a system, hotter water to wash with, etc.

]]> By: soulflower http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-23625 soulflower Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:55:49 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-23625 I've been addicted to using paper towels, but try to be environmentally conscious, natural, and frugal in different ways. I just decided that i'm going to have to try to quit buying & using paper towels altogether, as opposed to using less. Today i bought a pack of 10 shop towels, for car use and home use. I think i will also get a pack of washcloths for indoor home use, and use the shop towels for the car (i've been using a lot of paper towels to check my oil and to clean up oily messes from an oil "leak" problem i've been having) to make a distinction between what different cloths get used for. Maybe. I feel kinda funny about washing certain things together, although, i'm not gonna lie -- I wash kitchen towels w/ bathroom ones. It's just more practical. I know some people would frown on that, but i'm already so OCD in so many other ways.. :/ I believe it was today, while shopping for reusable shop towels (got a package of 10 for $2.97 + tax), that i wondered about giving up toilet paper. I reasoned that if cloth diapers are an option, couldn't something be utilized, other than TP? ..something made of cloth that can be laundered and reused? Also, I've considered the reusable cloth menstrual pads/liners, but have never gotten around to buying them. I've used the Diva Cup, but i didn't find it to be hygienic or practical and went back to using disposable stuff. :( I think it's very interesting that i was JUST pondering cloth toilet paper (without actually calling it that in my mind) earlier today. Then while researching making my own almond milk, i ended up on a gal's web site, where she described her site as follows: "Here in my garden, you'll find Downward Facing Dogs, cloth toilet paper, herbal teas and remedies, homemade shampoo, magic, and lots and lots of love. ..." Cloth toilet paper! That's it!, i thought. Wow, i was just thinking about that earlier, and now i came across it "by accident". I didn't know how to access her info/blog on CTP, so i Googled and found your site. Definitely something to consider.. THANKS! :) I’ve been addicted to using paper towels, but try to be environmentally conscious, natural, and frugal in different ways. I just decided that i’m going to have to try to quit buying & using paper towels altogether, as opposed to using less. Today i bought a pack of 10 shop towels, for car use and home use. I think i will also get a pack of washcloths for indoor home use, and use the shop towels for the car (i’ve been using a lot of paper towels to check my oil and to clean up oily messes from an oil “leak” problem i’ve been having) to make a distinction between what different cloths get used for. Maybe. I feel kinda funny about washing certain things together, although, i’m not gonna lie — I wash kitchen towels w/ bathroom ones. It’s just more practical. I know some people would frown on that, but i’m already so OCD in so many other ways.. :/

I believe it was today, while shopping for reusable shop towels (got a package of 10 for $2.97 + tax), that i wondered about giving up toilet paper. I reasoned that if cloth diapers are an option, couldn’t something be utilized, other than TP? ..something made of cloth that can be laundered and reused? Also, I’ve considered the reusable cloth menstrual pads/liners, but have never gotten around to buying them. I’ve used the Diva Cup, but i didn’t find it to be hygienic or practical and went back to using disposable stuff. :(

I think it’s very interesting that i was JUST pondering cloth toilet paper (without actually calling it that in my mind) earlier today. Then while researching making my own almond milk, i ended up on a gal’s web site, where she described her site as follows: “Here in my garden, you’ll find Downward Facing Dogs, cloth toilet paper, herbal teas and remedies, homemade shampoo, magic, and lots and lots of love. …” Cloth toilet paper! That’s it!, i thought. Wow, i was just thinking about that earlier, and now i came across it “by accident”. I didn’t know how to access her info/blog on CTP, so i Googled and found your site.

Definitely something to consider..

THANKS! :)

]]> By: Krystal http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/comment-page-2/#comment-22934 Krystal Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:32:54 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2006/07/20/choose-cloth/#comment-22934 I'm wondering about using cloth for wipes. I am worried about getting a yeast infection from using them constanly. Sometimes when I go pee, I use a squirt bottle to rinse and dry with a small hand towel. I’m wondering about using cloth for wipes. I am worried about getting a yeast infection from using them constanly. Sometimes when I go pee, I use a squirt bottle to rinse and dry with a small hand towel.

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