My House is Making Me Sick

Visiting my son over the Thanksgiving Holiday was quite a learning experience for me. I realized that my home is making me sick. My son and his wife decided to go green for their family. For seven days I used soap- washing powder – dish detergent- lotions and shampoos all safe for the environment – non-toxic for everyone I had good food... They decided to buy all meat and vegetables from a vendor and it them shipped to them –no preservatives – fresh meat – vacuum packed and frozen and delivered and stocked into your freezer. I never saw so much food. It was heaven though – I just went to the freezer and there it was the meat dept and vegetables dept in front of me. I loved the idea.

My son stated that his first investments were the lights. He spent twenty dollars and brought 5 light bulbs. That month his electric bill went down 50 dollars. He told me that they now purchase their cleaning and personal hygiene items over the web a savings of 28 dollars for the month. He said the he had to change the way they buy and save money, I had to get more for the buck cause the buck is not growing but cost is. . The next was his family food bill which cost them 600.00 a month. He now pays 325.00 a month for the food. Better quality food that is organic – no preservative cows, chicken or pigs, cut, shrink wrap and fast frozen and shipped. The food taste great.

When I came home, I started my quest to be green. Turning my home into green has been an eye opener. We go about our shopping and we buy stuff to clean our house and clean our body and never really paying attention on the effects of the product we are using. Not paying attention is what has gotten Americans into trouble in the beginning on so many issues.

Turning Green

Changing is not easy, but necessary. I want to share with you some of the report I was sent about products that we use in out house that is killing us.>

“50% of all illness is due to poor indoor air quality 150 chemicals found in the home are connected to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological disorders.”

3 groups of people are primarily affected by indoor chemical concentrations because they spend more time indoors and their immune systems are weaker.

The 3 groups are: Infants and toddlers,

Chronically ill

The elderly

Of the chemicals found in personal care products:

§ 884 are toxic

§ 146 cause tumors

§ 218 cause reproductive complications

§ 778 cause acute toxicity

§ 314 cause biological mutations

§ 376 cause skin and eye irritations

§ [Source: United States House of Representatives Report, 1989]

Women who work in the home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who work outside of the home. [Source: 17- year EPA study]

That study was the scarcest for me why, I am at home a lot.

If you want to know what your average cleaning product is doing to you right now, my mouth flew open when I read the report and I got scared. Why is this information not being blasted over the TV – shouted in the streets - Internet – Special Report on every channel – every day? People need to know what could be causing them to be sick, right in their homes.

So my next step is cleaning and food items replacing them with better stuff for me and for the world.

Turning green has become easier and saves time and money.

Most companies that sell healthy and environmental safe products have drop shipments in order

Changing the way you shop – it is proven that when you shop online it changes your spending habits - the way you shop and plan save time and money a cure for impulse buying that cost and change will come.

Wouldn’t it be great to only take 2 minutes to get toothpaste, soap, etc, only because you planed it out one time? A Life saver for busy people on the go, quick thaw, fresh food and it taste good.

Ever go to the store just to buy toothpaste and soap, two things and have a basket full of other stuff. The money that you save alone from compulsive spending is a lot – just track it. Write down what you also brought home after saying that you need to just pick up soap by redirecting spending you have more money.

When I was a Financial Consultant I would put together budgets for people. My job was to help them redirect the same money and become debt free. Giving them a plan helped them realize their mistakes. If they stuck to it made them free forever.

So now it was my time to be taught and was given a plan and I am so gratefully what my son taught me about chemicals and toxics and saving money to redirect to something else. Getting healthy – being aware – save money and time to do something else.

Gwendolyn Davis