Check Your Smoke Alarm – And Save Your Resources!
Not only will a working smoke alarm save your your life – it will save natural materials!
Imagine the total and utter devastation of a burned-out home. Imagine all your possessions – gone!
Now think about the tiny little battery that could help prevent that – and all you need to do is press the little ‘TEST’ button every week or so to prevent this waste.
Now let’s not even think about the really personal possessions that will be lost – let’s just think about the rest as well: the sofa, the curtains, kitchen units, beds, wardrobes, carpets, tables, electrical goods, pictures, toys, and everything else you adorn your home – and your life – with.
All gone.
Now, think about all those materials that have been needlessly wasted – and which now need to be replaced, Possibly even your entire house itself is destroyed completely – and maybe even parts of a neighbouring home too.
Yes, if you are insured, the financial costs of replacing it all will be low – but that isn’t what eco friendly living is all about, is it?
Why Bother Then?
And, I’m not trying to say here that these material things are more important than human lives – but it is yet another reason to check (or buy) a decent smoke alarm for your home!
And yes, I am well aware that a smoke alarm might not be able to save everything in your home – but it gives you the chance to save most of it.
It is really time that we started to value our possessions as more longer term investments., rather than just acting like they are ‘fashion accesories’ that can be replaced whenever we want.
Value Isn’t Always In Money!
We need to start valuing our homes and their contents as though they are as valuable as the natural resources we are plundering to make them. Your curtains could be made from materials that were grown in a hillside farm in Asia, your table from a forest in South America and your electrical goods from a mine in Africa.
You wouldn’t be so quick to replace them if you could see where they came from, the things that were done to retrieve them and all the natural materials used to get them to you in the first place.
Furniture and the like should be valued at their entire cost – from source to your home – not just their financial cost from the store.
I bet a table made by your grandfather and given to you for nothing would be far more valuable to you than a table you paid £1000 for from a store! Even though someone elses family has made it for you instead!
We need to start thinking about everything as more valuable these days – and you can start by checking your smoke alarm!
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