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[quote=Anonymous]Alright, my post was unclear and not specific.  I didn't mean to say that every single one of the things OP listed was definitively easier, cheaper, and healthier than the opposite of each and every one of those things.  For example, I wish I hadn't followed the intro sentence that said "most of it is cheaper and just healthier and not all that difficult" with my sentence that said "Homebirth, breastfeeding, baby wearing and co-sleeping wasn't really a "choice" for me - they just made sense for me and our children."  What I meant by that last sentence was that these things weren't necessarly "cheaper, healthier, and easier" but as I said, they were what made sense for our children and not "chosen" to up my crunchy status.

Of course organic can be more expensive, and the way WE eat vegetarian is absolutely cheaper and absolutely healthier.  I maintain that homemade cleaning products are "incredibly easy."  I'm not spending hours mixing vinegar and baking soda.  I have a few spray bottles and it literally takes me 10 seconds to fill them with vinegar, baking soda, whatever.  You could even do it while watching House!  (We don't have a TV either - I guess that makes me even more crunchy!).

It is marginally more difficult, I suppose, to have to take a split second to think about whether the can you just used goes in the trash container or the recycling container.  It also adds to the difficult marginally that you have to lug TWO containers out to the street instead of just one trash container.  But I don't think that excuses not recycling.  That's just laziness.

And I don't think I said anything that represented as "fact" instead of opinion in reference to the car - I simply said that we don't have one (which is indeed cheaper...).

We have had the same cloth towels and napkins for years and they look brand new...not "grotty".  So I'm not sure what you mean there.  And there's a laundry basket in the kitchen, which everything just gets tossed into.  Again, a marginal difference.

So I guess I should have said not that these things are "easier" but that they are only marginally less easy.  Sorry.  I still think they're not adding difficulty to my life in any meaningful way and in some cases, they are definitely cheaper and healthier.  Your opinion, I assumed obviously, may differ.[/quote]

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