Happy Earth Day!

I hope everyone is enjoying Earth Day. In an effort to become more "green" I figured today is a great day to set up some simple things in our own household to stop wasting. Nothing crazy, you wont find me composting anytime soon but more power to those who do, I ain't mad at ya. Its amazing when you step back and really take a look at how much we actually waste. It's sad and quite embarassing. So today in honor of Earth Day I have signed us up with a really cool site called Green Dimes. This is a great service I found through Tara Whitney's blog that helps reduce or eliminate so much of the unnecessary junk mail. I mean seriously how many times have I actually looked at the Penny Saver? Or even opened and filled out a credit card application. Personally I haven't and I got sick of receiving this stuff. Even Alex has gotten credit card applications! WTH? It was only $20 and they plant 5 trees on your behalf, which to me was money well spent, especially since I am not a green thumb and would probably kill anything I planted. Its better left to people who know what they are doing. Another thing I did today is bought a water pitcher with a filter. We have been using bottled water (i know i know) so in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic bottles we use Im going to try this for a while. Im not saying this is the perfect solution but I figure it is worth a try. I dont know that I could keep up with saving plastic bottles and taking them to be recycled so for me this is the most realistic and doable alternative. To keep us from buying bottled water when we go out I also bought each of us a SIGG water bottle. These things are so cool and I think Alex would actually buy into it simply because of how they look. So here's to Earth Day. I would love to hear what everyone else is doing or if you have some cool ideas for us!