I'm glad you're a big soppy hippie and that you're happy to talk about what you do online. From a purely selfish point of view, it helps me think a lot about what we do and what I'm prepared to change - the most recent and obvious one is deciding to get a dishwasher, after measuring how much water I use doing the washing by hand.
I was talking about using cloth nappies yesterday and someone said rather dismissively something along the lines of "oh you're such a hippy with the reusable nappies and wanting to breastfeed". I pointed out that both breastfeeding and real nappies can be easily justified on cost grounds alone, which seemed to disconcert them a little. Obviously the hormones are supposed to make me lose all ability to think quantitatively ...
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Date: 2006-07-18 04:45 pm (UTC)I was talking about using cloth nappies yesterday and someone said rather dismissively something along the lines of "oh you're such a hippy with the reusable nappies and wanting to breastfeed". I pointed out that both breastfeeding and real nappies can be easily justified on cost grounds alone, which seemed to disconcert them a little. Obviously the hormones are supposed to make me lose all ability to think quantitatively ...