lately there's been some chatter on a vegan mailing list i'm on. it's got me interested in a non-toxic home again. i have a book in my amazon wish list that goes into explaining the toxic ingredients commonly found in household products and the recent chatter has got me interested in buying it (or borrowing it from the library if its available). when i visited okinawa in the summer of 2004, i learned of a book that was about cleaning a home with natural ingredients (such as vinegar, citrus, etc.) instead of chemical products. when i got back to america, i found something like it in english but then i was off to new zealand and the book went into storage. i thought i'd take interest in it once again only after i get my own place and approach with a fresh (vegan) mind instead of how i used to live. i have also heard of homes that built from scratch to be eco-friendly and thought that if i were to ever be so fortunate as to be able to construct my own home for scratch, i would make the effort to make it not only stylish but eco-friendly as well.

i had been trying to save some money by purchasing products in bulk that may pass for being vegetarian friendly items but were not items that were necessarily earth friendly. (the test for me so far has been that if you can't pronounce all the ingredients in a product, if you don't know the origins of each ingredients, then it's not something you should be buying.) with my mom's recent interest in clean, safe water free of chlorine and the vegan mailing list chatter, my interest in a toxic free home is arising again but this time to act in the now instead of delaying to when i have a place of my own. even if purchasing items that don't weigh heavy on my conscious is heavier on my wallet, it will be worth it in the long run.