Every wonder how you compare to other crunchies? Compared to some, you are super crunchy. Compared to others you are bordering soggy mush. How about a quiz to help you decide just how crunchy you are?
Now I do want to add my two cents about how I do not think crunchies should be comparing each other and looking down on those less crunchy. There is always something to change and we all have areas where we'd rather not go crunchy on. This quiz is strictly for fun.
it's so interesting to me that so many of the crunchy questions relate to attachment parenting. i would argue that co-sleeping isn't a definitively crunchy ideal, nor is extended bf'ing (though bf-ing would be, i would think).
ReplyDeletePiper - yes crunchy does intertwine with attachment parenting a bit. Co-sleeping I see more as AP then crunchy. Extended breastfeeding does have it's benefits though and is natural so it lines up with crunchy pretty well. I think a lot of it has to do with why we are crunchy...the general three are: environment, health, and frugal. Depending on a person's reasons why they are crunchy they may or may not agree with what makes someone crunchy... just one of those things.
DeleteThis is a fun quiz, and a fun idea, but I have a couple issues ...
ReplyDeleteFirst, the "How Crunch Are You?" and "take the test" phrases stayed on the screen while I was trying to take the test. It make a bunch of answers hard or impossible to read.
Second, I politely disagree with my results :) I practice EC, buy used most of the time, clean with Norwex (so just water), etc ... yet I was told that I'm creamy! The eye rolls I encounter on a daily basis beg to differ :)
Hmmm that's weird that you had issues with the phrases staying. I had no problem when I tested it...might have just been a glitch.
DeleteSorry about your results. :) It's all point based so if you get a few really "crunchy" answers but mostly really "creamy" ones then it will add them all up and score accordingly.... although it's also possible that that glitch messed up your answers somehow...
I'm ok with being Creamy! I might be a rare one...I cloth diapered, but chose to vaccinate my kids...I never co-slept because I wanted my kids to learn independence (I also wanted my own bed for just my husband and I)...I buy local when I can, but when you live somewhere where "local" food is not local at all, I just do the best I can...
ReplyDeleteI am happy with my decisions and my greenness! I think as long as you are comfortable with your decisions that is all you need! {But I think living as natural as possible is the correct path to take :) }
Tried again and the phrases still stayed up ...
ReplyDeleteI came out creamy with a dash of crunchy. It was a fun quiz and covered more options than other quizzes (like 5 different possible answers instead of the usual 3 - yea, no, sometimes).
ReplyDeleteInteresting, most people consider us very crunchy, but we really focus on energy usage and green house gases more than natural living.
ReplyDeleteOne comment is that I didn't understand all the options under birth control, I just didn't know what the abbreviations mean. I also hadn't heard that people thought that those low doses of hormones are bad for you. I find that my body behaves a lot better overall when it gets low does of hormones like the pill or IUD. I'm a much more miserable person when off of them. (Sorry if that's TMI, but you asked!)
Sorry for the birth control confusion. I'll have to edit that. For the record: NFP = natural family planning LAM = Lactational amenorrhea method (breastfeeding as birth control) FAM = Fertility Awareness Method which is just like NFP but instead of completely abstaining during fertile times you use a barrier method such as condoms instead. I think that was all of them.
DeleteAny hormones that you put into your body are not a good thing. I know there are certain instances where they can help (although I do think there are natural alternatives instead) Hormonal birth control can actually really mess you up. It gave me PPD after my second child was born because of the hormones it was pumping into my body.
This makes me so happy! I'm top of the crunch food chain! (Which is surprising because I feel like I could be doing so much more.)
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Crunchy with a touch of creaminess. That surprised me because I don't really consider myself green at all! Most of my 'crunchy' comes from the way I shop & feed my family. Of course, since reading your blog, I am much more crunchy than I used to be with the cloth diapers! :)
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm "good and crunchy" even though I drive a big, gas guzzling minivan to tote around my four kids:)
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