My husbands off work today and it’s shopping day. Usually we get our groceries and anything else that we need on Mondays, his usual day off, but this week he’s off on Tuesday.
Chris is great about doing things around the house and doing the shopping. In fact, when he does the grocery shopping he’s pretty good about sticking to the list we make in advance so as a result he spends less than when I go with him! When I go I find a few other things to add to our groceries, usually things on sale that we could use during the week or in the near future so the bill gets a bit higher. LOL
Right now he’s at a friends jamming on the guitar but when he gets home we’re going to go to this HUGE health food store called The Big Carrot. It’s a store that sells organic groceries and other products like natural herbs, vitamins and natural weight loss supplements and so on. They also sell a lot of green products.
The reason we’re going there is to buy something called the Static Eliminator. I just found out about it last night. It’s basically a dryer sheet that can be reused about 250 times. We only do about 12 loads of laundry a month so that means a Static Eliminator dryer sheet would last us close to two years!
It has no chemicals on it, it’s hypoallergenic, eliminates static in the laundry and softens clothes. It basically does what a Bounce dryer sheet or any other popular fabric softener dryer sheet is supposed to do, but without all the chemicals. Plus it doesn’t leave any residue on your clothes or inside the dryer so it’s better for the machine and your clothes. It’s also better for the environment without all those chemicals and when you consider that you aren’t throwing out dryer sheets each week.
Now that we have our new washer and dryer and we can use less laundry detergent (and have it rinsed out better!) I’m experimenting with using more natural products to clean our clothes and soften the laundry – like vinegar, baking soda, Borax and hopefully that natural dryer sheet.
Hopefully we can find the Static Eliminator dryer sheets at the Big Carrot. If we do, I’ll let you know how it works for softening clothes and eliminating static compared to name brand dryer sheets.
I am actually contemplating on a gift to give my mother this coming Valentine’s Day. It would be great to give her something like this. I am a big supporter of products that benefits the environment. I am advocating that companies should really think about the products they produce. A breakthrough like this does not come very often.
Emeric well if you give your mother some Static Eliminator dryer sheets make sure you give her some flowers or chocolates too .. you know … a little more Valentine’s day like. LOL
I’ve been using the new all natural dryer sheets for close to two weeks now and they work great. They eliminate static cling just as well as any commercial fabric softener or dryer sheets but without the chemicals. The residue on commercial dryer sheets can really mess up a dryer and the chemicals get on the clothes (also make fire resistant chilldren’s clothes less fire resistant too – did you know that?).
The other benefit of these dryer sheets is that they last for about 500 dryer loads so as you said they are better for the environment and our finances. We spent about $12 for the two Static Eliminator sheets and since we generally only do about 4 dryer loads or less per week (16 per month or less) we figure these dryer sheets will last us for about three years or more. Whereas if we were using commercial dryer sheets, say Bounce it would cost us a heck of a lot more! I used to reuse dryer sheets so a box of 32 dryer sheets would last two or three months, but at say $5 a box and maybe 6 boxes a year for three years that would cost us about $90 so we’ve just saved ourselves $78 bucks!
Hi Tricia,
Thanks for this info. The flowers and the chocolates won’t hurt either. I’ll be sure to keep that in mind.
Maybe I’ll take her out this week to check the item first. It’s better if I’ll be giving her something that she will really find useful. But if I were to choose, I’d give her this one.