crafting for conservation

With respect to the current drought our state faces, I thought I would post a craft idea for water conservation. In some sense, this is one that Mr. Love Party and I have actually had in our bathroom for quite some time.

It started out as an empty glass jar with the phrase, "25 cents per flush" written on the outside. A phrase which I remember my father joking with my sister and I about. However, it quickly became more then a joke upon hearing what some of our friends had to say upon exiting the loo, especially since the last thing we expected was a registered reaction.


Most of our guy friends would still be laughing as they exited the john, making sure to tell us that they'd left a quarter - or better yet for us, a dollar (which they would collect upon at a later time).

Most of our girl friends, who did comment on it, would come out of the head with quite the frustrated expression. We'd ask them what was wrong, and they'd explain...they didn't have a quarter, or they felt they had to flush because we were in the midst of a cookout or clothes swap. In the end, most of them would confess they "let it mellow."

That's when we realized, folks appreciated the simple statement more then we thought. So, I did what anyone would do...I turned the phrase into a cross stitch! It really doesn't get much better - a craft that inspires water conservation at a basic level. In hopes of getting others to remind their friends to conserve water in the WC - before we're all forced to use a dunny - here's the pattern I created for the cross stitch.


I think my next water conservation cross stitch will read:
In these times of too much sun
We do not flush for #1
Thanks to our friend Greg for coming up with the cute phrase that even Emily Post would approve of (or at least that my mother-in-law could hang in her own bathroom).