Quick Tips on Creating a Green Friendly Home for Your Wallet and Health

Here are some great quick tips you can use to not only make some parts of your home green, but also very importantly save money and help maintain great health.

Look around your house and see if you have any plastic or various vinyl items that may be leaking vapors into your house. As your house heats up during the day, the warmer it gets the more chemicals can start dissolving into the air. It is a good idea to open windows when it gets hot to air out the house. This is a cheap way to not only cool the house and save money, but also help to ensure your breathing clean air. For the air, you can also have indoor plants to help purify the air and relax you.

Make sure that your appliances are energy efficient. Some older appliances can suck up a lot of power.

Go Green in Your Living Room

Go green in your living room with these tips. Learn more about going green and saving money in this book.

  1. Keep your chimney damper closed to save energy
  2. Recycle your junk mail
  3. Close your window curtains and shades for additional home insulation
  4. Unplug your TV when it is not in use to save 10-15 % of of your TV energy
  5. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent light bulbs
  6. Use cardboard matches instead of a lighter to light your fire. Cardboard matches come from recycled paper.




5 Ways to Go Green in Your Bathroom

Here are some great ways to go green in your bathroom at home.

  • Take a shorter shower to save water and money
  • Turn off your tap water while you are brushing your teeth
  • Skip using a plastic liner in your shower as the vinyl not good for us, plus it is not good for the landfills
  • Plug the drain in the bathtub before turning on the bath to save gallons of water
  • Put a flourescent light in your bathroom light fixture

Learn from the book about going green and saving money.

Go Green in Your Kitchen

Going green at home in your kitchen can help you save money, health, time, the environment, and more. Here are ten things you can do to go green at home in your kitchen:

Go Green at Home

Going green at home is very useful in helping save your health, the environment, money, time, and more. This section will go through various parts of the home. Read pages in this section to learn more.

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