There are some ideas and cleaning recipes that sound crazy to me. Such as:

• Making your own toothpaste, and oil-pulling (swish oil in your mouth for several minutes)
• Not using shampoo (my scalp feels itchy just imagining this!)
• Wearing the same outfit every day

They sound crazy because they seem hard. I want to try some things like these in order to see if it’s possible, but I fear I won’t enjoy the transition or will feel unclean or unhappy.

I will say, however, that I’ve done some things that past year that were on my DIY crazy list that were actually not so hard and even enjoyable:

• Grew my own tomatoes – 3 kinds! And daikon, lettuce, kale, one jalapeño, and strawberries
• Made kombucha using home-grown strawberries and foraged Italian plums and blackberries
• Made decent cappuccinos with foamed milk (next up: latte art)
• Roasted coffee
• Made homemade surface cleaner & window spray that works (alcohol, castile soap, eucalyptus oil, corn starch)

Maybe one day, the things that sound impossible to me will feel normal!