Bet you drive a petrol guzzling car

Two practices that might give you ideas to lift you to the next level is "Regenerative farming" and "Biodynamic Agriculture".
You can apply the principles to your own backyard.
ABC Landline have program segments available on iview that you and the children can watch.
"Biodynamic" farming was illustrated with the example of Jurlique, an Australian pure natural cosmetics company. You can buy the liquids that improve the soil on line.
There have been several program segments on "Regenerative Farming".
You can look up both of those subjects on google, and share them with your children. Its great education for them.
Depending on their age you could give them holiday projects to explore how these principles could apply to your back yard.

- Who gives a crap toilet paper.
- Look at changing shampoo etc to plastic free. Ethique has great products
- Dr bronners liquid soap goes a really long way. Great for hand/body soap if you refill a foaming bottle
- washing sodas miracle cleaning spray is really really good for cleaning
- cotton buds with paper instead of plastic
- compost bin in addition to worm farm (and put all your paper, tissues, cardboard etc in it)

Look at what you put in the bin (do a bin audit!) and see if there is something you can do about not using the products that are most commonly chucked out.

Keep up the good work! And good on your kids :-)

When I left work after years of high level corporate work, I took all my smart stylish work clothes to "Dressed for Success", where they go to women who have been out of the workforce for years, to give them free smart outfits for job interviews. They exist in most Australian states. Sometimes called "Suited to Success". Its a world wide movement.

I cut up all cardboard wrapping into small pieces and put them in the compost bin along with lawn clippings. I even cut up the toilet roll inner tubes and put them in the compost.
Paper towels, if they do not have fat on them, go in there too.
But I use cloths for cleaning.

I’ve just started doing little things around the house.
Using metal straws, reusable produce bags, trying to minimise food waste, running the dishwasher on a delayed cycle so it washes in the middle of the night, same with the washing machine, opshopping rather than buying new.

Like another poster I save all my soft plastics and drop off at my local Woolworths, it would shock you how much if it you accumulate and how much it reduces your rubbish once you get going with it. I swapped down to the smallest bin size and only third fill it. I’m looking at ways to reduce it further.
I recently found a charity collection bin that also takes old unusable stuff (like socks, stained clothes etc) that they sort and recycle to make fuels etc, here’s the link to see if there’s one nearby to you!

http://scrg.com.au/#Bin

Your doing great! I bought some lunch wraps and made some beeswax wraps so that I don't have to use gladwrap anymore. We shut doors to unused rooms to avoid heating them up when the heater is on. Keep your car tyre pressure filled and car serviced to keep it from using more fuel, as well as remove objects from the boot that make it heavier.

Cloth napkins you are using water and electricity
You must have money and time on your hands

I used to have a worm farm but the worms eat so slowly that not all the table scraps could go to them. So now I compost, and it’s so much better! And my garden loves it.

Other things...... I save cooled water from boiled vegetables for my pot plants. They also love it.

I don’t used garbage bags anymore. Any food scraps that can’t be composted does into a saved food bag like a bread bag.

I also have reusable fruit and vegie bags I take to the supermarket.

Soft plastics that can’t go in my recycle bin I save and take to the supermarket when I shop and put those in their recycle bin.

I’m always on the look out for new ideas too so thanks for starting this thread!

Remember that you don't need to be perfect, you are doing a great job so far!

Try to buy products that have less packaging. E.g. big tub of yogurt instead of individual tubs, then divide it out yourself into reusable containers.

Try to make what you can from scratch (cakes/ biscuits etc).

Use chux or microfiber clothes for paper towel- wash and reuse.

Buy good quality basic clothes that don't change with trends, then use different accessories to change your look (check op shops before buying new).

Join your local buy nothing group on Facebook- you might be able to get something you need for free, and can give away things you don't need while engaging with your local community.

Make sure you have decent window coverings and keep them closed in the hot summer to keep the heat out. Also if it's dark and cold winter outside, keep closed to keep the heat in. Turn the temp down on your heater by a couple degrees. Turn the temp up on your air con a couple degrees.

Check you have good insulation in your roof and walls

Check and fill gaps around external doors

This one is not very elegant but effective, buckets in the bottom of the shower, water on the garden or to flush the toilet!

Op shops for clothes. Make your own snacks to save on packaging

Be kind to wildlife