House

Live with Less chemicals in your life –

From the Front Gate … Through the house … To the Back Fence

Ideas that are Simple and Doable for everyone

  • Save ‘A Lot’ of money $$$$$$’s

  • Discuss % of your shopping bill that is spent on household cleaning products

  • Maybe do a cupboard audit … easy to explain

  • Have a healthy Home

  • Have a healthy family

  • Contribute to a healthy environment

  • Contribute to a healthy future for our children

  • A WIN-WIN

HOUSE CLEANING – NON-TOXIC

Front Door

  • Knocker and letterboxes

  • Glass

  • Stained glass

Hall – Passage

  • Floorboards

  • Carpet

  • Polish

  • Linoleum

  • Painted

  • Paint around doors

  • Vacuum

  • Deodorise

  • Scuff marks

Kitchen

  • Food Waste

  • Stove top

  • Oven

  • Range hood

  • Odours

  • Floor

  • Windowsill

  • Washing up water

  • Sink and draining boards

  • Cupboards

  • Cockroaches

  • Ants

  • Door to Garden

  • Dish washer

  • Fridge

  • Microwave

Laundry

How dirty are the clothes…most clothes to be washed are just woofy under the arms and misshapen

Perspiration

Cleaning washing machine

Soap powder

Fillers

Perfumes

Chemicals

Packaging

Fabric/Water softener

Woolens

Silks – ? type

Very dirty

Stain remover

Storing Chemicals

Special hand degreaser/paint cleaner

Bathroom and Toilet

Shower

Mould

Shower Glass

Bath/Sink

Floor

Bathroom Cupboards

Door handles

Toilet Brush

Odours – fresh air

Toilet

  • Seat

  • Buttons

  • Rim

  • S’ bend

  • Outer side of loo

Lounge

Floor carpet etc

Veranda doors to garden

Plants to grow close and around to veranda doors if you have pets

Insect repellent plants

Bedrooms:- Teens, Parents & Nursery

Teens and pre-teens UGH!!! – Wear a life jacket on approach to clean.. take flares with you

  • Air flow – fresh air

  • Carpets

  • Floors

  • Stains

  • Scuff marks

  • Windows

  • Paint works

  • Dust

  • Pen marks on walls

  • Sheets – washing

  • Odours –

  • How to combat Smelly sneakers

  • Cobwebs

  • Insects

  • Uplifting smells for teenagers and children

Parents Bedroom

  • Air flow

  • Sexy scents

Nursery

Nappies

Washing baby

Washing babies sheets and Clothes

Painting the nursery

Carpet

Flooring

Baby Crawling

Toys

Dust

Insects

Pets

Odours

Cats feces and urine

Dogs feces and urine

Fleas

Pet bedding

Recycling

Build a Compost.. how

  • Why..

  • Don’t; go and buy a compost bin use a recycled bin, bucket or plant pot

  • What to with compost..

  • Where to put it

Build a worm Farm.. how

Why

Don’t go and buy a worm use a recycled bath, sink or any container

Build a worm farm from an old bath or sink

How to use castings and worm juice..

Where to put it

Grow herbs and veggies in recycled containers..

  • Boots – leather, rubber… old school shoes

  • Milk bottle

  • Tin cans … label can look attractive on kitchen

Gardens – simple questions to ask before you plant

Soil Testing … So Very Easy.. Promise

Where’s the Sun come up in the garden

What to plant

Organic V’s Conventional

Height of plants

Plant Herbs and Veggies.. why plant close to the kitchen

Herb spirals

  • What to plant

  • Drier loving plants to water loving plants

  • Companion planting

Front Gate – Back Fence

  • Paint used

  • washing paint brushes

  • Treated pine

How toxic

What is Leaching

How does this affect the soil and roots of plants?

Back Garden

Soil Testing … So Very Easy.. Promise

Where’s the Sun come up in the garden

What to plant

Height of plants

Plant Herbs and Veggies.. why plant close to the kitchen

Herb spirals

  • What to plant

  • Drier loving plants to water loving plants

  • Companion planting

Frog Pond

Chooks – GUEST required

Seed Saving – GUEST – others know so much more

  • Why Save seeds

  • Make your own Seed Bank

  • How to store seeds

  • Save loads of money

  • Your choice

  • Heritage varieties

Extra little things to help the environment – this list will get much longer

Mouse Trap v’s pellets

Cigarette Butt Cases form councils.. Key ring type