Unstuffed: Free 'n Clear!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Free 'n Clear!

This is my bathroom mirror. What's so special about it? Well today, for once, it's clean! No spots, no streaks, no fuss, no muss, because I cleaned it with an amazing cleaner!

I'm so excited about this cleaning product. It's 100% chemical free, not like nasty, conventional cleaners. It's better than this. There is absolutely no packaging or waste whatsoever because I didn't even make my own. I didn't use paper towels or newspaper. And the best part about this incredible product is that it's free!

That's right folks, absolutely free! It's Free 'n Clear! And if you act now, you too can take advantage of this for the rest of your lifetime offer. But you have to act fast, because there's no time like the present to start going chemical free, reduce waste and save, save, save money!

What is this miracle cleaner, you ask? Well, our dedicated researcher in our state of the art Unstuffed lab recently discovered a highly effective, yet simple, 3 step process to a Free 'n Clear clean! (Patent pending)

Step 1: Take a navy shower and steam up your bathroom mirror.

Step 2: Take a clean, cotton rag that you've recycled from an old t-shirt or something.

Step 3: With the rag, vigorously wipe your steamed up mirror using these mechanical marvels.

That's it folks. Three easy steps to a Free 'n Clear Clean! All for the low, low price of absolutely nothing. So what are you waiting for? Head to your bathroom today for your very own Free 'n Clear clean. Our operators are standing by for assistance.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thats exactly what I do! :-) (altough to be honest without the 'navy' part of the shower most days). I should probably not admit this - but I clean my whole house just with water and pieces of cut up old towels. Its amazng how well it works.; April 10, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Theresa said...: Hee! Nicely done!

And that is a very cool print on your wall, too. :); April 10, 2009 at 7:48 PM
chaotic kitten said...: It looks lovely! All those high-tech products you used must have paid off!!; April 11, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Amber said...: It's amazing what you can do with water and a little bit of elbow grease!

Thanks Theresa! The print is Paul Klee's Revolution of the Viaducts.; April 11, 2009 at 8:56 AM

Raison d'etre

In 2008 I didn't buy anything new for the whole year. Food and basic toiletries (but not toilet paper) were the obvious exceptions (twice I broke my own rule). Used items were allowed, but I tried really hard to reduce consumption as much as possible.

I finished my year successfully, and along the way learned a lot about how much the world consumes, the waste we produce, sustainability, voluntary simplicity, climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, the water crisis, the food crisis, voting with your dollar, voting with your fork....

Now, I've transformed into a slightly nutty, very passionate, gardening, preserving, DIYing, simple living, nature loving, weed eating, backyard medicine making, urban homesteader, and I still don't use toilet paper!

With the help of the Awesomedudeguy (ADG), I'm continuing my exploration of living lightly and frugally, while increasing my self-sufficiency and resiliency, staying debt free, and preparing for a climate changed, resource depleted world, in uncertain economic times.

My nothing new restriction is lifted, but I continue to be a gentle, local consumer as much as possible.

My hope is that some of the information and resources I post about here will be helpful to others. Thanks so much for stopping by !

Yours in unstuffing,
Amber

"Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with dandelion, make a sorry figure for the drawing room" ~Emily Dickinson

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature." ~Abraham Cowley

"The laws of nature are under no obligation to cater to our culture’s emotionally charged fantasies of perpetual progress and limitless growth." ~John Michael Greer

"Sometimes we think we are too small to make a difference in this big world. Our actions seem insignificant in comparison to global issues such as climate change and population growth. However, the reality is that action on an individual level is exactly how big changes are made. Without individual and family sustainability, there’s no community sustainability. And without community sustainability, there’s no global sustainability. In fact, earth-wide change is absolutely impossible without individual change.
It really does come down to you and me."
~From Living Sustainably: It's Your Choice

"The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or a sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. Is it the most timid and shabby of all lies? It seems to have the look of it. For ages and ages it has mutely laboured in the interest of despotisms and aristocracies and chattel slaveries, and military slaveries, and religious slaveries, and has kept them alive; keeps them alive yet, here and there and yonder, all about the globe; and will go on keeping them alive until the silent-assertion lie retires from business--the silent assertion that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop." ~Mark Twain

"It is not enough simply to abstain from theft...We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. It is our duty, therefore, to borrow no more from the world than we absolutely need, and to make full and proper use of it. Taking more than we need, and wasting it, is a form of stealing from the rest of humankind."
~Commentary on Sutra 30 The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali