White Cloud Green Earth

So, Earth Day is in the past and you figure you've done your part, right? Wrong - let's keep this thing going! Here's a few more products that have 'gone green' that were sent to me to try out and let you know what I thought.

Well, just my luck that when the box came to my front door I decided to let my kids open it. "Ewwww, nasty, recycled toilet paper!" followed by all kinds of laughs and wisecracks that I won't repeat here (if you haven't read my profile, I have a house full of teenagers!), "I'm not using toilet paper that's already been used!".

Settle down, everybody! It's not that kind of recycled! It's made from recycled fibers, not recycled toiled paper, duh! Ok, well that brought a prospect of seriousness to the conversation. Which turned out to be a great opportunity to talk to the young'uns (ha!) about how many trees won't be cut down if folks were to purchase these types of products. Oh yeah, White Cloud has Green Earth Paper Towels also.

So, how do they compare? Well, we can ask the kids! Yes, I did the sneaky thing and replaced all the toilet paper rolls in their bathrooms, including my own, with the new White Cloud Green Earth rolls without telling them - they deserved it, don't you think? We already use the regular White Cloud brand, so the appearance of the roll wasn't any different, meaning it had the same design imprinted. So by just looking at it, they never would have freaked out. So, day 1, I waited to hear someone scream at me from the bathroom with a "Mom, you didn't!!", but it never happened. Not one of them even noticed. I knew that I was using something different, but the Green Earth toilet paper is so close in quality to the original, that no wonder nobody noticed what I had done!

Now's a great time to go out and try it for yourself, especially since White Cloud has a great $2 coupon available.

The paper towels rank right up there. I was thinking that they might just fall apart as I was using them, but I came to find out that I was really wrong about that. One thing I've done (it's been almost a year now) to reduce my own carbon footprint is to reduce my usage of paper towels. I use only about a roll every week or two, so to pick up a roll of the White Cloud Green Earth paper towels would be just as economical. I don't really use them in the kitchen any more, so my first chore for these new paper towels was my forever dirty sliding glass door. Thanks to the dog, the bottom of the door is always covered with nose slime, saliva and paw prints, and the kids take care of the middle portion with all their hand prints (why can't anyone just use the handle anyway?). How did they work? Just like you'd expect a paper towel to work. It didn't fall apart, they're quite strong, and they did the job.

So what happened with the kids and the toilet paper? Well, one evening when there were other kids at our house, too, you know, best buds, boyfriends, etc., I decided to tell everybody that my kids had been using recycled toilet paper. There were some surprised looks from the other kids, and some red faces from my own kids, then, a gi-normous eruption of laughter, to which my kids hurriedly responded "It's not really recycled toilet paper, it's recycled fibers, right, Mom?" and "At least we're not killing trees!" - hey, didn't they just laugh at me a week ago when I told them that? Anyway, the info stuck in their teenaged heads, and hopefully that of their friends.

White Cloud Green Earth paper products are products you can really feel good about using!