Day 72: My Mother's Methods of Saving the Environment & Money.

Sometimes I can't tell if my mom is trying to save the environment..

or trying to save money.

Or maybe she doesn't realize that both motives kind of coincide together.

Unfortunately they don't save much time, and when she loses her patience on something...she just gives up.

Here are some of the methods that she uses (or has tried) that not only saved some money..

but helped the environment as well.

1) Farming:

My parents started a small vegetable garden in the backyard a couple of years ago. They grow mainly pumpkins, peppers, cucumbers, sesame, eggplant, tomatoes, and cabbage.


It tries my mothers patience sometimes.

2) Drying clothes in the sun

In the summer, my mom had tried to save some money by drying clothes out in the sun. I would get up early before getting to work to help her hang the clothes. 

However...

3) Heating


In the winter, we try to save money on our gas bill by using the fireplace as our primary source of heat. We get most of our wood by taking them from an abandoned campsite or cutting up fallen trees. Of course, this takes up a lot of human energy. Another issue with this is that 


4) Air conditioning.


My mother also tries to save money on electricity by not using the air conditioner as much.
I personally don't mind the heat, its the humidity I can't stand.


So on humid days, she tries to boost morale by saying.

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I have to say though, I think her childhood in Korea made her the way she is now. 


Life was a lot different back then, they didn't have a lot of the appliances that we have now. Almost everything was done by hand. 


I used to complain a lot about the time and energy being wasted on doing these things to save money. But deep down, I have a lot of respect for my mother and her frugal ways.


Though i'm worried its making her more and more crazy.