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Housework Woes: How to Simplify (& Green-ify!) Common Chores

Housework Woes: How to Simplify (& Green-ify!) Common Chores

Do you struggle to keep up with mundane (and never-ending!) household chores? Inside: Smart strategies to simplify the laundry, dishes, and general home cleaning; tangible ways to perform these tasks in an eco-friendly manner, too. 

How to Simplify (and Green-ify!) Housework

 

Laundry, dishes, and general home cleaning: Mundane housework got you down?

Sustainable minimalism is about doing less and living more. The good news? It’s entirely possible to apply the tenets of sustainable minimalism to housework by simplifying tasks, minimizing magnitude and -finally! – incorporating incremental eco-friendliness to our efforts.

On this week’s episode, I offer dozens of tips and tricks to simplify (and green-ify!) our laundry, dishes, and general housework routines so that you and I can spend less time maintaining our homes and more time enjoying them.

Happy listening!

 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Stain Spray and Spot Remover 

Eco Nuts laundry detergent

Dropps laundry detergent pods

Laundry washing ball (to collect microfibers)

Le Creuset (to minimize dirty dishes) (Pro tip: Acquire these items secondhand!)

Bamboo dish brush with interchangeable heads

Castile soap (for DIY cleansers)

Dropps dishwasher pods

Vegetable-oil based body soap (for less soap scum)

Microfiber cleaning cloths

 

* This week’s episode is sponsored by Oregon State University Ecampus.

* Access this week’s Show Notes here. 

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Do you struggle to keep up with mundane (and never-ending!) household chores? Inside: Smart strategies to simplify the laundry, dishes, and general home cleaning; tangible ways to perform these tasks in an eco-friendly manner, too. 

 

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