Green Up Gift Basket

 "Make a gift basket of green products for a friend or to give away as a housewarming gift."

I cringe at the idea of "gifting" someone cleaning products.  Family lore of my own youthful mother exchanging looks with my father as she politely watched her soon-to-be mother-in-law effuse as she dragged her husband's gift of a vacuum cleaner out from under the Christmas tree...  My careerist hippy Mom wanted to be clear she had a different sort of marriage dynamic in mind.  Years later, Dad would drag teenage me into Williams Sonoma to pick out some gag housewares Christmas gift for Mom, a salad spinner, perhaps?  All the while, he happily subsidized (and obligingly hid from) the weekly cleaning service that relieved his sweetie of that housekeeping burden.  Is that why they are still happily married?  

But gifting misgivings aside, an opportunity arose to make more headway on this Green Up merit badge series.  As part of executing her estate, my husband's family had sold his grandmother's house.  I hope the new owners won't resent a bucket full of eco-friendly supplies as a housewarming gift.  Here are the contents, if a similar opportunity presents itself to you.  Anything worth including that I forgot?    

Contents:

Home Depot 5 gallon bucket - can never have too many!

Rolls of Who Gives a Crap TP and PT - FSC certified, B corp, 50% profits donated, 100% recycled product with cute snarky labels.  

Repurposed glass vinegar bottle + sprayer nozzle of white vinegar surface cleaner - Birtwhistle's label-removing prescription of veg oil, baking soda, and a cloth worked great to remove the original ACV label.

100 gram swing top jars of citric acid and baking soda - with instructions for converting the citric acid into a toilet bowl cleaner/descaler

How to Keep House While Drowning book - I loved this at first read through, but it is more of a mindset adjustment book than one I wanted to keep for reference in my personal library

Microfiber dish sponge alternative that is machine washable

White cotton washcloth (these are slowly taking over my rag drawer as the default cleaning cloth)

Dawn power wash - this gets rave reviews for efficacy on Reddit, but I had a still shrink-wrapped bottle under my sink I hadn't yet found a use for

Homemade lavender + sage soy candle in a mason jar - because I'm still on a candle making kick and they say sage is good for purifying energy

7 clothes pins chained together as a sort of floral pick to hold the congratulations card