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04-30-2012 at 9:23 AM
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GIVEAWAY! Win Family Essentials from The Honest Company

Hi Bumpies,

 From today until 5 p.m. on Friday, 5/4 enter for a chance to win a one-month bundle of eco-friendly family essentials from The Honest Company. The package includes a one-month supply of non-toxic body care and household cleaning products for your entire family (Honest Shampoo, Body Lotion, Hand Soap, Healing Balm, and Laundry Detergent).

For those of you who haven't heard of Honest, it's an eco-friendly line of family essentials (diapers and wipes, bath and body care, and household cleaners) through a monthly subscription service at Honest.com (and starting in May, you can visit their online store to purchase individual products, too!). Created by parents for parents, The Honest Company is committed to making safer products more convenient, beautiful and affordable and to providing exceptional family support that promotes health, happiness and community.

Entering is easy! All you need to do is reply to this post with an answer to the following question: What changes (big or little!) are you making to help your household go green?

To read the official rules, click here.

**Want to enter this giveaway but not a member of TheBump.com yet? Make an account here.

Good luck!

 
04-30-2012 at 9:33 AM
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reusing garbage bags
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04-30-2012 at 9:34 AM
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Drying clothes outside!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:34 AM
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More green friendly household products! Also, purchasing a steam cleaner for the floors rather than continuing to use chemicals to keep the floors clean!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:35 AM
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We reuse walmart bags as trash bags and for the hubs to take lunch to work in.

 

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04-30-2012 at 9:36 AM
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We've switched out all of our light bulbs to eco-friendly options, and we've invested in Energy Star appliances for our home!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:36 AM
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Using more dish towels and less paper towels!!
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04-30-2012 at 9:36 AM
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Cloth Diapers, unpaper towels, and reusable garbage bags! =)
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04-30-2012 at 9:36 AM
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We participate in our neighborhood's weekly recycling program, and we try to use our reuseable grocery bags every week.
 
04-30-2012 at 9:38 AM
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Using our reusable bags every time we go shopping :)
 
04-30-2012 at 9:38 AM
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Using alternative cleaners like vinegar and baking soda.
 
04-30-2012 at 9:39 AM
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I'm relying less on my car. 
 
04-30-2012 at 9:39 AM
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Recycling and using all natural baby products!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:39 AM
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On sunny but cool days, I turn off the heat and open all of the blinds to let the sun warm the house naturally. :)
 
04-30-2012 at 9:40 AM
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Recycling everything that can be, hanging clothes to dry changing all household appliances to energy star.
 
04-30-2012 at 9:40 AM
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We use reusable grocery bags each week as well as cutting back on paper towel usage by using dish cloths. 
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04-30-2012 at 9:41 AM
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We replaced our air conditioning system with ceiling fans in every room. We also added an eco friendly patio cover to shade the side of the house!

 
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04-30-2012 at 9:42 AM
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Recycling, joined Green Moms Meet and trying to use more eco-friendly, non-toxic cleaning products around the house!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:42 AM
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Using cloth diapers & drying what we can on the line
 
04-30-2012 at 9:42 AM
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We recycle every week, switched our light bulbs to LEDs, and we plan to cloth diaper when our on arrives in May. We would love to add the honest company products to our household.
 
04-30-2012 at 9:44 AM
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We recycle ALL of my husband's beer bottles, plastic bottles and milk cartons. We also use Eco-friendly Travel coffee mugs made out of plastic bottles. Our bed is also made out of recyclable light posts. We have raised our son to only play with toys made out of plastic milk bottles and wood scraps. I hope I win! We are a 100% Eco Friendly Family!!! 
 
04-30-2012 at 9:45 AM
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Using baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice as my all purpose cleaner.

Make my own laundry soap.

Only use my clothesline (and indoor drying rack on rainy days) for drying my clothes.

Only use our dishwasher once a month-- we do them by hand every day instead.

 Don't by bottled water--we filter our tap water instead

We use felted dryer balls instead of dryer sheets 
 
04-30-2012 at 9:45 AM
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recycling more and using a water filter instead of bottled water.


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04-30-2012 at 9:47 AM
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We recycle everything we can, but resale on some items, use green products around the house, buy organic when we can & wash most things on the cold/cold cycle :)
 
04-30-2012 at 9:48 AM
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We reuse plastic bags from the supermarket as garbage bags and are planning to cloth diaper. 
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04-30-2012 at 9:48 AM
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Start to compost!  
 
04-30-2012 at 9:49 AM
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Reusable bags for the grocery store/shopping, eco-bulbs, ridding our cupboards of toxic chemicals for natural cleaners!
 
04-30-2012 at 9:51 AM
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There are so many things we want to change before the little one arrives.. Our recycling efforts have been sort of so-so, but with the baby, and all the extra "stuff" that will be needed, we really need to step up. Instead of using only disposable wipes/cloths to clean up and wipe up messes on baby, we are going to be also be using soft rags that we can clean and re-use. We will be giving the whole make our pwn baby food a try, and we will also be ridding ourselves of all the toxic chemicals and cleansers we use in our home. Lots of changes to make... Only 5 months to go. :)
 
04-30-2012 at 9:52 AM
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Re-usable grocery bags, and refashion my old clothes so I don't buy stuff we really don't need anyways. I take my old clothes that doesn't fit and make it to fit my daughter, she loves it! I try to use less water when doing chores too. 
 
04-30-2012 at 9:52 AM
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Recycle, and use the reusable grocery bags.
 
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