Making the change to Go Green is not very simple to many consumers. Going Green is being advertised and talked about all the time, but some people just don't care to change.

Living Green is not a modern thing. It is simply living simple. The meaning of a greener world is simply letting go of some of the modern conveniences and remembering how things used to be.

My family and I have been eco-friendly all our lives. Funny enough though, we didn't do it for the environment, we did it for our pockets. We couldn't afford to be wasteful and abuse on our resources.

Realizing how my parents and grandparents lived, makes me feel that going green is extremely simple. There's nothing new about it. We just need to understand that it is simply learning how things were done in past generations. This can make a big difference in our planet and in our finances.

Growing up, my father will constantly reprimand us for leaving the TV on while not in use, or not turning off the lights when leaving a room. The air conditioning was like gold; it was a sin to leave the outside door open for more than 3 seconds. "The Cheap king," we will call him. We don't call him that anymore. He was right. We need to preserve. Just now, it's not so much about money, but to save the planet.

My mom was just as bad. She refused to buy paper towels, and if she did, a roll will last almost a year. She will actually rince the paper towel and lay it to dry. I'm not lying. I learned how to turn on a dishwasher after getting married. My mother will use the dishwasher to store dishes. She'll reuse glass containers to store left-overs. The cloth dryer was non existant. She will line dry instead. I don't remember ever having disposable cups or plates in our house, not even for party's. Times were tough, and going green was the way to live.

I am very proud to have grown up in a humble household. I learned that we shouldn't take advantage of our resourses and that there really isn't a need for some of the modern advances. There are always alternatives and less expensive solutions. More importantly, for me, there are "greener" solutions. We are in a world of "disposable" things. Disposable diapers, bibs, plates, water bottles, utensils, etc... We need to really think about the small things we can eliminate in our lives that may really not take much effort just a little bit of thought.