by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
The latest catalog from the great people up there in the English Lake District landed on my doorstep and it is, once again, jam-packed full of great ideas for the home, including the for us important “green” and “greenish” ones.
Aside from those green and greenish ideas there are many other great ones, especially in the storage front and the organizing and cleaning your home. Many of those cleaners and such, yet again, of an environmentally friendly nature.
There is “Oven Mate, on page 8, which is said to be an environmentally friendly yet powerful oven cleaner and knowing the state of my oven it would have to be very powerful indeed.
This is followed on page 11 by “Lap It Up”, an absorbent substance intended to suck up oils in pans so that they can be disposed off easily. Also useful for spillages of different kinds. This product too is said to be kind on the environment.
If you want to clean your oven, tiles, etc, without using chemicals at all then that can be sorted too as there are two what look to be powerful steam cleaners to be found on page 13 of the catalog.
On page 39 are then found some energy savings solutions in the form of the new Ecozone energy efficient CFLs which replicate daylight, so making it not just a good light but one kind to your eyes and good for your moods.
Also on this page there are the Standby Saver TV/Audio strip to be found and two kinds of energy efficient fan heaters.
On the left-hand side top of the same page you can also find some great little draft excluders that you can buy in order to keep drafts from coming through underneath of the gaps of doors. Those can also help to reduce your home heating bills.
If you want to do your thing for the environment as regards to recycling all your paper from home and office but are concerned as regards too identity theft then the Hide ID stamp is the answer. This stamp is found on page 45 of the catalog and anyone would have to be a genius to decipher any information after that stamp has been applied.
Mind you, I deal with that different. I shred all my documents and then put them into the compost bin. I challenge anyone to be able to get any data from that stuff after a few months, not that anyone in their right mind would want to go through my compost bin anyway, I am sure.
Further on in the catalog on page 52 we then come to the BYOB area where we find a number of different reusable shopping bags, some of which roll up small enough to fit into purse (as long as it is not a micro-sized one) , handbag or briefcase. Yes, gents, you too can carry a bag like that in case you want to pick something up on the way home from the office. Saves you ending up having to take – and soon having to pay for – a plastic carrier bag. Ii always have a cotton tote on me.
What pleases me, as a advocate of had-powered/human-powered tools very much is the fact that Lakeland also sells two manual carpet sweepers, one from Bissell and the other by Ewbank. A manual sweeper often, so is my experience, works better than many a vacuum cleaner.
Another great product we find on page 68 and 69 in the same catalog and that is the E-cloth. This cloth, though I have not tested it as yet and cannot comment from personal use, cleans with just using water, and there are a great number of different packs for different uses.
At the end of the catalog we end up – pardon the pun – the laundry section and here we have airers and drying racks and also environmentally friendly washing agents and dryer balls.
So, I am sure everyone will find something of interest in the pages of this latest catalog from Lakeland and it is well worth a look when it drops onto your doormat in the next week or two.
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