Grumble:
You hate spending the $7 just to get one pair of pants cleaned.  I feel you.  But, you have to spend the dough to get those gorgeous crepe slacks dry cleaned; otherwise, they’ll get all crapped up rendering them utterly unfashionable.  This dilemma begs the question:  why spend so much money on your clothing if you’re not going to take care of it… Boy, it seems as if your Mother just showed up.  Nag, nag, nag.

Goodness:
You’ve decided it IS in fact worth the money to dry clean those gorgeous trousers, but now you just can’t bear the thought of all of the senseless plastic used in the packaging of said dry cleaning.  Good girl!

Let’s think about it for a minute. 

Your clothing gets magically cleaned, then hung up on the cleaner’s clean carousel, then put into your clean car and then into your clean closet.  Does it REALLY need a hermitically sealed plastic bag for the trip home from the C-L-E-A-N-E-R-S?  I thought not.  And so did Dry Greening, my personal favorite NON-plastic, dry cleaning bag.

Go:
Buy your own Dry Greening bag for $4.99!  $4.99, people!  Come on, how can you NOT?!  While I don’t own 2 of them (yet!), here’s what I recommend you do.  Keep one bag in your closet to collect all of your dry cleaning items.  Then, when full take it to the cleaners and leave it with them to cover up those duds once they’re cleaned.  While you’re there dropping off the dirty stuff, pick up the clean stuff which is already living in your other Dry Greening bag.  Voila.  You're a genius.

I promise you that people will begin to ask about your bag thus starting a dry cleaning (er, greening) revolution, in your area.  Oh, and while you’re at it, return those wire hangers to the dry cleaners, so they can reuse them.  As Mommy Dearest said, “No more wire hangers!” and as Tracy Metro said, “No more plastic bags!”


Tracy Metro (and yes, Metro IS her real name!) is a TV host who was eco-chic before eco and chic were even hyphenated! Wanna learn more about this eco-conut? Grab a fare card and go for a ride at www.tracymetro.com
 

Grumble:

You feel like a swine flu infected -- well, swine.  You're a sniffly, achey, feverish and just plain grody mess.  If only you could keep "down," Grandma Gerty's chicken soup...

But, since you can't (and Grandma Gerty went out when with the Reagan administration), you'll have to suffer through with Auntie Tracy's flu remedy.  Besides, mine has way fewer calories!

Goodness:

Immediately recruit a loved one to A) provide extreme amounts of sympathy (does not need to be real), and  B) pamper you as if you were the Queen of Sheeba.

Go:

Instruct your recruit to rub your little piggies with some Perfect Organics organic mint chocolate or hazelnut coffee shea butter (sounds good enough to eat, I know!).  You'll feel cared for without the concern of infecting them with your nastiness. 

On the other hand, if wallowing in your own funk is more your style, then have your honey run you a hot bath with Perfect Organics' grapefruit, lavender, coconut or mandarin, rose, coconut bath therapy.  While the real live shrink is not included with the bath therapy, if your cohort hangs with you while you soak, you'll feel much better.  Guaranteed.

As a last resort, if even YOU can't stand the sight of your tissue chaffed Rudolph nose, perhaps you ought to consider matching your cheeks and lips to your red nose with Perfect Organics vegan lip and cheek shimmer. 

 Why?  Because vanity doesn't dig on swine.

 Tracy Metro (and yes, Metro IS her real name!) is a TV host who was eco-chic before eco and chic were even hyphenated! Wanna learn more about this eco-conut? Grab a fare card and go for a ride at www.tracymetro.com

Grumble:
Ever feel like you’ve come to the end of the Internet?  You’ve shopped all darn day and seen the same stuff again and again and again; nothing’s inspiring and everything a bore.  I ask: where did all the creativity go, Bill Gates?

Grumble:
Let’s face it, holiday shopping is a pain in the tuchas (for all of you non-Yiddish speakers out there: butt, tush, arse, hiney, rear). Honestly, it just doesn’t matter if you’re shopping for eco-gifts or trying to be economical with your shopping; it’s all stressful and can make this part of the year loathsome for many.    What? Me -- hate shopping? Someone quick… check my temperature!