The outlook of a community member January 18, 2010
Posted by dalkoyo in Alternative Housing, Alternative Transportation, Food ideas, Fun/Family, Housing, Real Deals, Real Eco Affordable Energy.Tags: alternative, blog, community, Dollar store, eco, energy, family, fun, Housing, new, open spaces, savings, social systems, sustainment, welcome
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Hello !
Welcome to the EcoLean Community blog. But why do this?
I was going to try to find several items that should be ‘low cost’. I was looking for:
1. Bleach
2.Dog Toys
3. Empty Spray Bottle
That list seems simple at first, but not…I thought I would try to save some money so I headed over to BigLots – No Bleach only detergent; Spray bottles but not the small kind I needed; No dog toys. Then I remembered being told about the dollar stores. I headed over to Dollar World – Bleach (off brand name); No dog toys; Small spray bottle. I got the bleach and spray bottle. I could not find ANY dog toys that were told to be there. MMMMMM… Very sad, I remembered another nearby dollar store and headed over there – No dog toys, No bleach, No spray bottles. Now here is the BIG problem: I headed over to a WalMart yes a WalMart… lo and behold – Clorox Bleach a dollar less that at the Dollar World, Dog toys for $1.00 and of course spray bottles for less than at the Dollar world. All relatively in decent quality…
So this blog is a result of how people that are trying to find the lowest cost items, housing, community sharing, and what I will call re-sourcing are seemingly being misled, misinformed, and misplaced.
To counteract this odd trend, I will try to present real savings, housing alternatives, community sharing ideas (for sustainable and low/no cost ways), transportation trends for low budgets, and how to reclaim services and products for new uses.
