primitives re-use plastic bags

[Big Dog]

A little hot water, dawn soap, and magnets to hang them from the fridge while they dry.

Look and ye shall find: reusable cotton and bamboo tampons!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/27349116/5-organic-cotton-and-bamboo-tampons-with

I picture a sunny summer afternoon in Lawrence, Austin, or Boulder. A house on a quiet street has a clothesline in the back yard. A dozen freshly-washed tampons gently wave, like tiny white churchbells in the faint breeze.

Damn near poetic!

[RobJohnson]

The lessons I was taught as a youth, in frugality, are now "green."

Exactly. I'm thirfty to save money, not the earth. 

[Chris_]

That just makes you selfish.  Doing things for your own benefit are what separates genuine, caring, tolerant liberals from the scum-of-the-earth RethugliKKKants who want to rape the middle class and the poor with their SUV's and McMansions.

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[RobJohnson]

That just makes you selfish.  Doing things for your own benefit are what separates genuine, caring, tolerant liberals from the scum-of-the-earth RethugliKKKants who want to rape the middle class and the poor with their SUV's and McMansions.

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[IassaFTots]

Exactly. I'm thirfty to save money, not the earth. 

Yup.  I am thrifty.  Now, my boyfriend?  He is downright miserly.  Seriously.    Although both of our cities have free recycling pickup, we take most of ours to a recycling place to get paid.  Why?  Why give the city something else to make money off of us.  Yeah..........

[Wineslob]

Right; you live in a city, and so you have to do that.

For me, it's just easier to up-end the plastic litter-box over where I want the ground fertilized, dumping the whole thing.

So, you are going to create a cat shit mountain instead of pig shit?



 

[BlueStateSaint]

So, you are going to create a cat shit mountain instead of pig shit?



 

I wonder what the name of this one will be . . .

The 'Bobbolink' . . .

The 'proud2Blib' . . .  

Any others?

[franksolich]

So, you are going to create a cat shit mountain instead of pig shit?



 

Well now, it would take a very long time for the cats to create something as massive as the William Rivers Pitt.

Remember, it took tens of thousands of pigs 75 years to create the miniature Jungfrau here.

Actually, the gardens are so vast no one even notices how they're fertilized.

[vesta111]

Well now, it would take a very long time for the cats to create something as massive as the William Rivers Pitt.

Remember, it took tens of thousands of pigs 75 years to create the miniature Jungfrau here.

Actually, the gardens are so vast no one even notices how they're fertilized.

Searching the inter net for a company that sells these disposers for dog and cat manure. I will have to go back and look under worm farming as this may be where I found it.

Seems one can order a set up that is to be buried in the ground for the disposal and with the order one gets a box of special worms that turn the offal into garden soil.  Like composting using only plant material and night crawlers.

I have been told [true or not?] that the pot growers use a waterdown form of Pig offal  never straight from the hog to grow their crops in corn fields.  Something about the offal from a carnivore is way too strong to be used in its original state---Like a dog that pees in one area will kill the grass.   Is this the Ammonia in the offal that does this???

In Panama and some parts of the back woods in the USA people plant their gardens over the septic tank or leach field,    Seems to work out well for the farmers that plant their crops, as for those that do not live in the area that 5 pound tomato you bought will give you 3-4 days of the trots.

[zeitgeist]

Searching the inter net for a company that sells these disposers for dog and cat manure. I will have to go back and look under worm farming as this may be where I found it.

Seems one can order a set up that is to be buried in the ground for the disposal and with the order one gets a box of special worms that turn the offal into garden soil.  Like composting using only plant material and night crawlers.

I have been told [true or not?] that the pot growers use a waterdown form of Pig offal  never straight from the hog to grow their crops in corn fields.  Something about the offal from a carnivore is way too strong to be used in its original state---Like a dog that pees in one area will kill the grass.   Is this the Ammonia in the offal that does this???

In Panama and some parts of the back woods in the USA people plant their gardens over the septic tank or leach field,    Seems to work out well for the farmers that plant their crops, as for those that do not live in the area that 5 pound tomato you bought will give you 3-4 days of the trots.

I can't remember where I saw the doggie septic systems ( gardener's supply?) either vesta but you are correct about it working with worms.  When I had my larger dogs who use to use the back yard I would clean and pile it in the fall to ferment over the winter before turning it in.  Darn if in the spring I didn't have some of the best worms in the neighborhood, I mean real huge night crawlers. 

It is not advisable to use fresh manure ( a great euphemism for fecal matter) because as you say it will burn crops.  Fresh manure is fine on hay fields in the fall or turned in to gardens in the fall.  For growing gardens it is best to use 'composted' or cooked manure.  I really don't want to think what is in fresh manure but for a short idea, I just had to have the beagle treated for hook worm.  This is why it is important to pick up, which lots of people don't do where I often walk her; and, as with kids, sometimes you just cant catch them fast enough when they put something into their mouths.  You can also get hook worm through contact with infected fecal matter.

Spring is coming.  I have some crocus up.  Amazing how they can push through frozen ground.