How Green is Too Green

I love making dolls, and at one point I sold my dolls. The problem was, the dolls were all hand knitted and a lot of work. It used to take me about one week to finish one doll, so when you have a deadline for 30 dolls, you end up knitting night and day. My dolls were baby dolls with movable arms and legs and clothing that could be put on or taken off. So lately the doll bug has bitten me but I do not want to knit dolls.

This has taken me to check doll making sites for cloth dolls that can be sewn by machine. Now some of the sites I have gone to, the dolls are fantastic. It's amazing what they can do with cloth.

My blog is not about dolls today, it's actually what I came across when I was surfing the web. Now I noticed that a lot of sights are promoting 'How To Go Green'. Now I'm all for going green, you know saving our resources and recycling, saving our planet, but there is one thing I draw the line at, and that is making your own reusable pads out of cloth. There actually is a site that tells you all about it. Ah ya right.

I've hit menopause now, and don't have to worry about that, but I'm thinking about my daughters and all the other woman out there that still need to use them. So, say you do start using them, what happens when you got to work ,or school, or even shopping. Do wash them out in the sink?, or do you have a special bag you put them in, then throw in your purse and bring them home to wash? That would sure give a purse snatcher a shock when he starts fumbling around in your bag. Maybe it could be a deterrent.

Now don't ya think it would be a bit inconvenient? We just came out of the dark ages why go back. Wouldn't that limit what a woman could do. Now my mother told me once that my grandmother, back in the day, used rags, hence the expression 'on the rag". She can remember my grandmother washing them out and drying them in front of the fire place, in the winter time and out on the clothesline in the summer. Ewwwwwwwwwww! For my grandmother that was ok, because she didn't have a job, so could you imagine having them hanging around (in Malaysia very few people have hot air dryers) and having unexpected guests pop in. I mean nothing like advertising.

As I said I'm all for going green but that's were I draw the line.