One of my friends recently declared, I’m Going Green!  I paused for a moment and said, “You’re turning into Shrek.”  I couldn’t help giggling as I said it.  I knew exactly what she meant; she was becoming a Tree Hugger/Bunny Hugger type person (whatever term you use).  How could we continue to be friends?  She is going to be this extremist, vegetarian, boss me around type friend and tell me what I can and can’t do that is good for the environment.  I conveyed my concern about our friendship.  She assured me it was going to be nothing like that at all.  Oh sure, I can hear all our future conversations about why I can’t have a hamburger at lunch, when I really wished I could.   

Going green by using broken glass from a bottle Going Green means reusing broken items

Sound familiar to you?  Has anyone had this fear or concern over a person that they love “Going Green”?  If not, I’m sure you will someday. 

What is meant by going green?  It can mean different things to different people.  Some people buy fuel efficient vehicles, some change the way they do things at home, some change the way they eat, some commit to recycling, some consume less and so on and so forth – you get the idea.  Some people find the happy medium and do a bit of it all.  It depends completely on your level of commitment to going green.

If everyone would change at least one little habit, it would make a big difference.  You don’t have to let it control your life, if you don’t want it to.  For instance, let’s say your Nintendo DS just broke its hinges.  Now you are NOT the technology repair type person and you know it.  To take it to someone to fix this problem would cost about as much as a new one.  So in this disposable society we live in, you don’t give it a second thought and rush out to buy a new one.  What are you going to do with the old broken one?  What else would you do – throw it away!  It is no longer of use to you.

That’s a horrible approach to the problem.  I don’t have a problem with someone going out and investing the money on a new machine.  However, I have a problem with throwing away the old one.  Just think about it.  There is someone out there that IS the technology repair type.  They are wishing they had your broken gadget before it hits the trash.  They probably have a broken one at home with a different problem and would LOVE to have it for PARTS.  Yep, I said it – PARTS! 

All you have to do is find the person that wants a broken one.  I know it’s like searching for a needle in a hay stack.  How do you go about finding them and not wasting too much of your precious time?  I have a simple, fast, and great answer for you.  Post it on Ewishingwell (www.ewishingwell.com), so you can give it away to someone who could really use it. 

Have you ever broken a glass vase, bottle, or any beautiful glass object?  Chances are you have broken something beautiful.  Sometimes you think, what a shame, it was such a beautiful colored bottle.  Rather than throwing the large or medium pieces away.  You could post the listing on Ewishingwell for the broken glass.  I’m sure someone out there would love the glass to use in stain glass or other craft projects.  Have you ever thought about giving new life to a broken plate?  I’m sure another person would LOVE to use it in creating a beautiful table top.  As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.  

Going green by using broken glass to make a table top.

If you didn’t know it, by doing this you are taking a step towards going green.  You don’t have to be a Tree Hugger or Bunny Hugger to do something great for the planet.  You can be an ordinary person, who still eats hamburgers, keeps your appliance’s plugged into the wall, and drives a gas guzzling tank.

Heck, you might enjoy this one going green task so much that you add other tasks into your routine.  You’ll see how EASY it is and how HAPPY it makes the other person.   Go on give it a try, I dare you!

Do you wish you had some broken items that you can use in your projects?  Let us know, so our users know to post them up and gift them to you.  (If we were clumsy enough to break them in the first place.)

~Vicki

Official Wish Grantor

(www.ewishingwell.com)