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IRL friends and their econess

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Do your IRL friends have similar beliefs about being eco friendly?

Do they even KNOW that you are EFF?

Do they give you crap for being EFF? 

Can you share your new eco discoveries with them (such as mama cloth, diva, etc) or do you not discuss those things?

I am very curious.

 

I have a few close frineds, and I love them dearly. None are EFF really, but a couple of them support me (at least don't think I am a freak). One of them even bought me a couple of books related to being an eco family. It made me SO HAPPY. That is pretty rare though. I think sometimes they forget how I am, and they don't think about their own lifestyle too much.

Another friend supports me very much with my choices but her choices are not EF. She SAYS she thinks it is awesome but she just does not seem to be willing to go to the little extra effort it might take to be EF. It drives me nuts.

I wish all of you lived in my neighborhood! LOL

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  • *speedracer**speedracer* member

    only IRL EFF friends from here!

    my other friends are not very EF and i don't really talk about diva cups or anything with them.  I have a few friends who CD but that's about it.

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  • LvneveryminuteofitLvneveryminuteofit member
    I have two, yes two friends who are supportive and right in line with being EF. One who is even more so than I. All my other friends know how we live, but either ignore it because they don't care or think we are just nuts. Even my parents think we are. We get made fun of a lot. Ok I do because people think I convince John to be like this, when really we share the nutty gene :-) In any case, I'd love to have more friends just be supportive. But even my best friend looks at me like this Hmm
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  • littleanomalylittleanomaly member

    Our friends recycle, but other than that, probably not very EF. I do have a couple friends that CD and they are enormously supportive. 

    We're still kinda easing our way into this. We try to fix one thing at a time. Less waste, more reusable bags for shopping, CDs, organic when we can... It's going to take time, and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get the paper towels out of DHs grubby little hands, but I figure every little thing helps, so we just keep trying. 

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  • c1kaestnerc1kaestner
    Most people I know think it's 'interesting' the route we are taking with CDing and BFing. But they won't say much more and few seem supportive but just are willing to 'make the leap' for themselves. One friend, oh yeah she's a CDer now. :)
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  • robynlynn83robynlynn83 member
    I am pretty sure 99.9 % of my friends and family make fun of me. When I started CDing I was told not to "waste" the money, when we got rid of paper towels--laughed at, composting---I was told that we would have rats living in our yard, making detergents, cleaners, etc--my parents asked if we were having money troubles, and my favorite is eating/buying organic--my parents thought we were buying into some govt. conspiracy to spend more money---only in Nebraska, I guess...
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  • jennterrelljennterrell
    i have a lot of acquaintances who are almost or equally as EF. However, my closest friends are not. In fact my BFF and her hubby just bought a used 27' RV to go "camping" on weekends. Gets 8 mpg.... It's about 40% of the size of my home. I don't get a lot of slack, cuz i've been varying shades of green since I was 14 or so. I do wish some of my friends would think about stuff more but I drop hints as much as possible, usually to no avail.
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  • Dr.LorettaDr.Loretta member

    No

    No

    No

    They just don't come up in conversation

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  • lilibetlilibet

    My degrees and profession are in the environmental field, so most of the people I spend time around or have maintained friendships with are of similar mindset (some more EF, some less EF, but generally in the same ballpark), and my other friends know in general about my EFF-ness because of my field, so it doesn't surprise them that I CD, don't have any paper napkins in my house, and carry soda cans from lunch back to the office to the recycling bin instead of tossing in a trash can outside (heck, you'd get the side-eye if you DIDN'T do that with my co-workers).

    My sister actually saw me putting away some clean foil to reuse and said, "Did you really just fold the foil up and put it away? I'm buying you a giant roll of aluminum foil for your birthday." But I grew up in a fairly EF family (the same sister's science fair project back in junior high was on recycling), so I don't feel all that different, although my EFF-ness is pretty mainstream, I think.

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  • PDXPDX
    3 of my close IRL friends are eco-UNfriendly. for example, we have curbside, combine all recycling and one refuses to recycle and only drinks out of single use containers. in general I try to not get on a soap box because I've tried it w/ them and it just doesn't work. instead, if it comes up, I just explain what we do and why and leave it at that. they know where I stand, they know I don't agree w/ their approaches, and I understand that arguing w/ these people would push them further into waste-territory. it does make me appreciate my eco friends more though :)
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