Guest guest Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 Do you ever feel discouraged by all the toxins/environmental problems/mold/poisons around you and long for the simpler days of your childhood? I don't remember all these problems growing up. Houses were houses. Food was food. Clothes were clothes. Cotton wasn't full of pesticides and formaldehyde, food wasn't ripened early in some dark warehouse and tasteless, milk wasn't from cows fed antibiotics and hormones and god knows what. It seems like everywhere I turn either things are too old and therefore moldy (if I get used books on Amazon, half the time they're fine, half the time they smell moldy; if I get new books, mostly they're fine, occasionally with my MCS they are so full of some kind of toxic something that I have to air them out for a month or two before I read them!) or too new and full of chemicals. It seems when I rent cars now, they often smell toxic. I don't remember that before. But old cars can get moldy a/c systems. I guess there's a reality to it. For instance Debra Dadd said she only looked for a house built before the 50's when they used real wood not plywood. Better materials etc. It just seems like a very narrow " eye of the needle " these days between mold and old on one side and toxic chemicals of the " new " on the other. For instance, just thinking of buying a tent so my bf and I can do some car camping in the fall, well, I'm worried about what a new tent would be coated with, but I'm worried that buying an old tent on craigslist, somebody could have stored it in a moldy basement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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