An AOK for the environment: Use less water – the lazy way! You might want to tell your housemates before you get started though – lest they think your just being lazy for lazy’s-sake!Thanks to AOK team member, Lynn, for the great tip!

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Celebrating my father in-laws 70th birthday with the entire family at a luxurious hotel in Santa Barbara this weekend. After treating myself to a day at the spa….message, whirlpool, steam room…wrapping up with a nice long shower …. I noticed a glob of gross hair at the bottom of the drain. My ‘Confession’ is that normally I probably would have left this nasty business right where it was….or not even noticed it for that matter (or not wanting to notice it) with a mindset that ‘cleanup’ was part of the spa experience…where you walk around on a cloud and magical fairies (aka spa staff) take care of everything for you. Because I’m living the AOK life these days, I mustered my courage (very nasty business, remember) and pulled out a lovely mix of mine and past cloud floating ladies hair out of the spa drain.My ‘Act’ was recognizing that NO ONE wants to pickup someone else’s hair out of the drain…my husband can testify to this…twice. Even if a person’s job is to pickup after people they STILL don’t want to pick up hair out of a drain; they just do it because they have to. As I walked from shower to garbage with said glob of hair, I couldn’t help but notice a few spa ladies glancing my way. I like to believe they were impressed with my diligence and hopefully understood the kindness gesture I was making towards the spa staff, which would encourage them to do the same one day. Truth is, maybe they already do this sort of thing naturally, and I’m the lazy bum, who knows, but at least one person was changed for the better today. ME.

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