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[quote=Anonymous]After talking about it for weeks, and me writing it all down for him, DH went off to the store and spent 400 bucks on paint that is the WRONG type. Aside from the frustration I am feeling at this, I am thinking about common sense. We are not wealthy, this was a project with a fixed budget and we don't have money to replace the paint.

I feel like my frustration with him and my desire to finish this project is clouding my judgment. We go to pretty great lengths to reduce and avoid environmental toxins, so on the one hand, I feel like why voluntarily introduce a harmful off-gassing substance to my kids' rooms? On the other hand, I think, well, you'd have to live in a bubble to avoid it all. And yet, again, I come back to the introducing it on purpose thing.

I know there will be plenty of people who will come on here telling me I'm paranoid and paint won't kill me or my kids, etc, and I appreciate your opinions, but I'm really hoping that folks who DO care and think about these things, and do worry about off-gassing, will weigh in. I'm not having much luck with google, it seems like there is a ton of conflicting info out there on whether or not low-voc is good enough.

If it matters, the specific brand of paint we got is &lt;50 / liter VOC (I think the high limit is like 150 and regular paint is like 350). [/quote]

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