Hello there and welcome back.

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 310 of Sustainable Minimalists.

If you're new here and you have no idea what this show is about, it is about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

So happy to have all of you.

Today we are doing it again.

We are doing a rapid fire episode.

Rapid fire episodes are when I take five-ish questions. Today we're doing five. I'm taking five questions that listeners wrote to me about. They want my thoughts, my opinions. And we're answering them. And today is a real smorgasbord. I'm just going to tell you all right off the bat we're covering

the gamut we're talking about low-waste pet ownership we're talking about helpful apps we're

talking about gifting for kids we're talking about laundry strips and let me say too that when

I do these rapid fire episodes, I, first of all,

I get an awful lot of emails from all of you, and I'm so grateful for that. However, some

questions I get, they're really great questions, but I don't know if I can make a full 20 to 30

minute episode out of such questions. So that's where the rapid fire episodes come in.

Again, we're hitting the smorgasbord today. And we're going to start today with a question about

laundry strips and specifically true earth detergent strips. So Jenny wrote to me. And Jenny wanted me to offer up my best thoughts, suggestions, concerns about True Earth laundry

strips.

Now, I have to disclose right off the bat that a very lovely lady from True Earth did

indeed send me a bunch of strips to try, no strings attached. So what am I saying there?

I'm saying I did not pay for the strips, but also the company did not pay me for this review either.

For anybody who doesn't know what a laundry strip is, it's a strip. It looks like a piece of paper. It's laundry detergent. You throw it in your

washing machine. It comes in an envelope very oftentimes. True Earth comes in an envelope. It's very

light. It doesn't come in that heavy plastic jug. Easy peasy. Now there are plenty of pros to true earth strips. They are free of a lot

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