Make Green Habits a Game for Success

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I was reading that post about making frugal habits a game and thought the same things could work with being green. In fact, on further examination, I realized we have a few green “games” at our house.

• We have a solar charger that can be used for our various cell phones and iPods. We move it around the yard during the day to manufacture certain it gets the most sun exposure possible to be fully charged at the end of the day.
• We plus have sun jars that move along with the charger.
• Between composting and recycling it is a weekly game to see how few trash bags we can put out for the rubbish man. Most weeks it is one bag and sometimes, it’s not even very full. That always feels like a victory.
• In the summer we challenge ourselves to see how warm we can let the house get before turning on the air conditioner. And in the winter we stick out the cool house for as towering as we can before turning on the furnace. Each week we go without heat or air conditioning is
  a small victory.
• Cooking from scratch and skipping the fast food or restaurant meals is something that is challenging, engaging and fun at our house. Getting foods in their most natural and least packaged structure and turning them into amazing dinners is a game we are always up for.
• Taking something old and making it new again is one of my favorite green games. I enjoy crafts so whether I can gather up our old blue jeans and t-shirts and form a quilt or turn old table cloths into place mats and napkins it’s always a great feeling at the end. (I use items that might not be suitable for donation considering of holes, stains, etc. Usable clothing items are donated to those in need).

whether it’s a game it’s a lot more fun to work on it, don’t you think? What green games do you play at your house?

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[Source] Christina Clark