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Half of the U.S. Population Lives in Hazardous Mobile Homes.

What's the problem? Well, it's not just mobile homes, really. It's the synthetic materials used in the finishing. They exude noxious chemicals into the air, things like formaldehyde.

Now, it's not the end of the world. (Well, maybe it is, but I meant as a manor of speech). I know that even a mobile home, which can be had used at the same price of a contemporarily automobile, can boost you into that coveted bracket of home owner, even if you rent the parcel it's parked on from a mobile home park. Once you're a home owner, you are placed in a new plane of the social credibility of the competent American in the eyes of the business world.

Quite a large notch above the mere plebian renters out there. Though now you have to mow grass and garden and in winter in northern climes, scoop the heavy snow off the vulnerable roof. But what advantages, the important credit prestige, the relative quiet (no tenant stomping overhead the next floor above your apartment) and so on.

But now there is a drawback. The toxicity of the air. Yet there are remedies. Take such actions as replacing the imitation wooden walls with plaster board, replace all plastic with wood, remove the synthetic rugs and put in wool carpeting or put real wood on the floors, put in air filters, and the most important thing, plants.

The plants actually filter the air. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration did a study on this and found that certain plants filter out more than others. One example of the best in that field was the humble little decorative ground-cover plant called the "Wandering Jew". Sometimes they may be hard to find at the florists or garden shops, because they are considered by some to be bad luck if indoors. But who needs luck? That's what got you into that situation in the first place.

All you need is one plant. Strong new plants will grow from cuttings placed for a couple of weeks in water and then transplanted into potting soil. Get several electric appliance timers from the mart or hardware store or the shack (about twelve dollars or so each) and plug in a fluorescent light. The light can be on the ceiling but one neat thing to do is to put it upright in a corner and hang the plant so the branches droop down making a natural lamp shade over the years between the light and the rest of the room.

If you put many plants throughout your mobile home, they can keep you in fresh air year round. Along with the filters you'll breathe easier and begin to recover from that constant drowsiness that the fumes gave you all these years. Just don't forget that when the light is off, the planties at that time use the same oxygen we breathe to grow with, so during that time, outside ventilation is in order. But when the leaves are lit with the fluorescent light which is all they need, (or natural sunlight if you have sunny windows somewhere) they give off oxygen we need, which is another benefit. You know what they say, "If the benefits, wear it".

One idea is to use the fluorescent lights as night lights coming on in each location on their timer at a different time. You'll always have light day or night and some can serve as reading lights for a living room or library or work place.

Remember what I always say, "Better light than never!" By the way, I discovered that the Earth is not a planet after all. That's right. It's a plant-it. And it may be the only plant-it in the universe. And don't forget to water your plants when they need it, after all, it's as I say, "Water you talking about!".