Be a cleaner and tidier!

 

Now what is this? Isn't Sara the first to clean and clear?
- Well then! Of course I'm in favor of cleaning and environmentally friendly cleaning, if I wasn't it would be extremely strange to start a soap factory and to buy a cleaning company. (Västerbottenssåpa AB and Västerbotten Soap Cleaning AB

 

Of course you should clean and clear, - source sort / waste sort and do the right thing for yourself that way BUT the trend that is now going around like a tornado on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, newspapers and God knows where.... the trend which means that you should clear everything, throw away, throw away, throw away and preferably of all move to something smaller and only own a maximum of ten things, it's a plague!

Please, my feed is filled with cool hipsters and yoga people, advocating: DROP EVERYTHING.
Throwing away is NOT environmentally friendly at all!


Where did your environmental thinking go?

 

The best thing for the environment is to use things until they are used up.

 

Fix before you replace, reuse what can be reused. Personally, I tend to rethink everything:  can we use this/this for something else, can we reuse it before it's used up?


A small yogurt bucket can be used many times for different things. Have you ever thought about the incredible quality of that little bucket like the one that thick and creamy yogurt is packed in?


You can pick lingonberries in it when autumn comes, you can freeze the last of the year's rhubarb, you can wash the children's watercolor brushes in it, you can plant tomatoes in it. It can be washed many times before it goes in the plastic recycling. Recycle!

 

Our soap is recycled, we make it into something new instead of throwing it away and it might not be that cool, but if the truth be told, it's not a bad idea. It's the same with everything else. It might not be so cool to go there and pick your lingonberries in a recycled yougurt with inherited, patched pink boots that were fashionable years ago, but it's certainly better than doing it in new fashionable boots and with a new, trendy enameled bucket.
Another thing, tell me what you do when you have leftover soup…. and have thrown it all away? When you only own ten things, what in the world do you do with a portion of leftover soup?


My guess is you throw it away too! Alternatively, run out and buy new, slightly more fashionable kitchen-storage stuff and that's not good, regardless of whether that soup is plant-based or not!


-No, folks! Let go of the trend and back to your common sense. You don't throw away good stuff, you reuse it. If you have lots of good stuff, then you save them and say thank you! Thank you for making me so lucky.

 

We have recently moved all our businesses to a house that was built in 1900, very little is new! We have furnished, prepared and fixed approx. 480m2 and there are few things that are new. Most of it is stuff we saved, inherited, cooked, patched or bought at flea markets!  I take the liberty of saying: the vast majority of people who come past us find it pleasant.

 

Sometimes you have to buy new, you have to BUT when you do, make a good choice. Think like this: is this gadget available in a better material, is it locally produced and what leaves the least climate footprint?
We will always need new things BUT to throw everything away just because the trend is such - it is not climate smart!

 

//Sara, återbrukare, samlare och städare

The store Västerbottenssåpa 

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