At last, my love has come along,
My lonely days are over,
And life is like a song . . .
Maybe Etta James didn’t have high efficiency appliances in mind when she belted out her famous “At Last,” but oh boy, that’s what my heart was singing when the Sears truck arrived at my house. For two weeks now, I have rekindled a lost romance with my laundry.
And my high efficiency washer and dryer couldn’t have come at a better time. Last weekend Annabelle showed signs of yet another stomach virus, bleching the contents of her stomach all over me, my shirt and pants, and then of course, repeating the process, oh, about ten times. Needless to say but I’ll say it anyway, this stomach virus was creating a mess of laundry, and I was the champion green mamma who set out to conquer it.
After two days of a vomiting and diarrhea plagued child fighting her way to healthiness, my husband and I naively thought we were in the clear. But our recovering sick one made other messes. We are a co-sleeping family, a family of sleepers, who sometimes sleep, sometimes not (though probably more often than more conventional sleeping arrangements), and who sometimes awaken to a bed that needs a change of sheets.
But life is like a song with our new in-house high efficiency washer and dryer. I walk downstairs, load the washer, pour in a small, concentrated, and ecofriendly dose of high efficiency laundry detergent by Sun & Earth, press the “go” button, and voila, my dirty laundry gets clean the green way.
Now I want to share my dirty laundry with the whole world. Really. I do. I wish I could post the smell of my sheets here at Green Mamma. They smell that good and yes, it does feel good on my eco-conscience.
Thank you Sears. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Oh, and if you haven’t taken Sierra Club’s Green Laundry quiz, click here.
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