A Reusable Lifestyle

My husband has to use ziploc bags for his food at work. When he goes in the gates his lunch pail is inspected so ziplocs make it easy for them to see what is in the bags. This of course is a downer for me as i was on a mission to eliminate all ziplocs from our home. My children and I already use reusable snack bags and we only use ziploc freezer bags to help us with our monthly meal planning. As i was putting away all of our reusable snack bags i decided to google "clear reusable snack bags" (yes i google random things). Google led me to Amazon which lead me to a listing for silicone reusable bags. The bags look super awesome! freeze, cook, store, you name it, they can do it...all for the price of $20+ per bag! Holy heck!!! That is way out of this frugal chicks price range! The ziploc bag issue may never be resolved in our house but at least we try, right?

I finally got my paper towel loving husband to use our unpaper towels (cloth napkins). He even helped me make a paper towel pole that i can snap my unpaper towels to, and now they hang conveniently in plain sight under one of our kitchen cabinets. We now have over 20 towels and wash two-three times a week for our family of five.

We use cloth diapers (which i make myself) for Tanner, best $250 investment we have ever made. Just thinking about all the money we wasted diapering our first two kids makes me sick. On top of cloth diapers we also use cloth wipes. Before Tanner was born i used coupons and sales to stock up on disposable wipes before making the decision to use cloth wipes. A couple days ago when i cleaned the boys room i noticed that i still have 5 packs of wipes that i got two years ago on black friday at babies r us!

I used reusable nursing pads when Tanner was born and it is no secret that i use lady cloth (sorry men folk that read this blog).

What items do you reuse in your own home??