That’s the good life like the TV show (The Good Life
) 🙂 but maybe a little updated for a new century?
This isn’t a sponsored post, before you start wondering, unless you count the jars of Whole Earth Foods peanut butter I’ve been given to review. They’ll get a post of their own in a few days time. But it is a post about a competition, and I’m posting it out of the goodness of my heart because I rather think a few of my readers could be the ppl that Whole Earth Foods are looking for. And I’d absolutely love it if one of my readers won the competition. (Unless of course I won it myself, which would be even better 😀 )
Here’s their blurb:
In the 1970s, Whole Earth launched tasty Peanut Butter, and Tom & Barbara Good turned their attention to sustainable, green-fingered living. Today we’re searching for people who embrace the good life, the 21st century way.
Help us celebrate wholehearted living by telling us what you do each day to make a difference- whether you bike to work, grow your own veg or have freecycle fever, we want to hear from you!
The selected 21st century good lifer will win the chance to become a Whole Earth ambassador. We’d help you celebrate by contributing £1,000 to your modern day good life, for example by treating your family to new bikes.
So what does a modern day good life look like? Like mine, maybe?
Because yes, I’m going to be entering. Come on, we downsized from two commuting jobs and two cars to one car, working from home, walking most places instead of both of us driving every day. I use cloth nappies on the baby during the day, and even wash the theoretically disposable baby wipes. (Actually, given how many washes they survive, I’m quite worried about how disposable they are. Not very I suspect. And yes, I know I’m a wuss for not using cloth overnight, but I don’t have wool covers that fit smallest and I can’t cope with the smell, her nappies smell really strong, way more than Small’s ever did.)
We buy locally where possible, as well as buying or acquiring secondhand, using freecycle and charity shops so that we aren’t throwing away things other ppl can use, and we’re helping other ppl not throw stuff away. In fact pretty much all the cloth nappies that we use were either from freecycle, or have been handed down/ on by friends. Some started out with Small years ago and have been worn by a few other children in between 🙂
I love hand me downs. I love seeing smallest wearing the clothes that her big sister wore a decade ago. She wears her brother’s clothes too – I’m forever explaining that she is a girl, they are just hand me downs 😉 Nothing wrong with that is there?
Where food is concerned, we cook from scratch to a large extent, and given that I’ve now got an allotment (panic!) I’m hoping that we’re going to be growing our own too. (It was in plan, but for a year or so away. It’s going to be hard work with a small person but I daresay we’ll get there in the end.) We walk to as many of our activities as we can, and have started to use public transport more as well. In fact, those green calculators really annoy me as they don’t seem to take into account the walking concept at all. I’m sure our lifestyle has to be fairly good nowadays, although obviously I’m always looking to improve it.
So yes, I’ll be entering the comp, and I hope some of you will too. And if one of you wins, I do hope you’ll tell me all about it.
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