Why are my feet so dirty? That…
ah!
Hi, I’m Zarah and I’m The Reluctant Environmentalist
So, I’ve given myself a wee four week challenge to do what I
can to save electricity, to of course save the planet from
all this bad CO2 that’s going on. But also, just to save myself a
couple of pound on my next electricity bill because that’s
all I care about to be honest! So, this experiment starts with
this - a T-shirt. More specifically a T-shirt that I’m gonnae wear
for a week straight. I want I get this bad boy as stinking, gross
minging, disgusting as it possibly can be because…
Washing machine. Apparently, this bad boy is one
of the most energy guzzling appliances in this whole house
So, if that is true I could be
saving pure hunners of money if I just cold wash my clothes
I could be walking about for four weeks just stinking ae B.O.
but I’m willing to give it a try. You know, all for the name of science
I do just want to sit here and expose myself and show you how gross some
of this stuff is
That’s actually really embarrassing I might cut that out
I have a bunch of Ross’s work shirts. Why are my feet so dirty? That…
ah!
And I do have the T-shirt that I wore for a week straight. That is disgusting!
I need to get Ross to smell this
I have something for you What?
This is the T-shirt that I have been wearing for over a week straight
Yeah, it just clicked when I was holding the armpit
Do you want to give it a wee whiff? Going right for the armpit
Oh, that’s humming Zarah
Did you wear the deodorant? Was that part of it or?
Yes, I wore deodorant! Oh okay, not enough
Okay well good luck my friend. I bet you’re dying to know if
my clothes were stinking by the end of these four weeks. The answer
is no, they were totally fine! It smells delightful
They were so fine in fact, that I have continued this on
I have kept up the cold washes!
Okay hear me out… vampire draw. And no upon further research it’s
got absolutely nothing to do with vampires. It’s actually a lot
more boring than that. Vampire draw is just when you leave things plugged in
all the time and electricity keeps getting sucked out the socket…
does that make sense?
which is quite a lot of
money and of course electricity but more importantly a lot of money
So every night I’m gonnae go around my house and just unplug everything
I’m not gonnae lie I quite honestly cannae be doing wae this
I’ve to do that for the next four weeks every single night before bed?!
Alrighty, I have here something very exciting - smart plugs. I have been manually switching
off all of my plugs for about a week now roughly. And long story short
its soul destroying. I can’t be bothered doing that every
single night for the rest of my life
That’s taken me two hours so it’s going to take me a long time
to do the rest of the house
So, for the last four weeks I have been cold washing all of my clothes
unplugging everything at night… did this save me any money?
Well, here’s my bill from before the experiment and this was my bill during
the experiment
That’s like halved!
So, mission accomplished! If I’m gonnae be completely honest with you I didnae
expect this to work like seriously I had absolutely no hope for this. So, for me
I’m just gonnae keep this up for like the rest of my life because the personal gain
that I got from this was huge