Mindful consumption quest

[Chicken lady]

Went out to eat locally (3 miles from home, 3rd closest place to spend money as they are next to the post office but on the far side and the post office is across the street from the tractor sales and service store.) Saturday night. Used paper napkins.

tonight I managed to scavenge up a dinner to keep dh from taking me out again, but he's going out to lunch tomorrow because we are out of meat. I need to plan better.

tomorrow I go out in the world again because I have a doctor's appointment. I need to buy food and I will pass an overwhelming array of shopping opportunities. But mostly, I need food. With minimal packaging and processing. Preferably local, seasonal, and organic. I already know I'm going to cave and buy the really good crackers in the plastic wrap that I can only get at the far away store I'm going to be two miles from tomorrow.

[JaneV2.0]

I've vowed to postpone grocery shopping until I've cleaned my refrigerator. Good thing I have canned tuna...

[Chicken lady]

I bought only food (defining wine loosely as food). I skipped the crackers!

my doctors office has gone more electronic and my visit generated only two sheets of paper, a paper sheet, an exam table cover and a little plastic.

i took my bags to the store, but I bought some food that was pre wrapped. In part because I had no choice except to not eat that type of food, and in part to save money. I brought home 5 styrofoam trays in order to save a total of $8.85. I am now regretting that.

on the up side - the deli guy says the store takes the plastic deli bags back for recycling. I have been throwing them out. (I would love to wean dh off deli meat)

on on the way home I stopped at whole food and took notes of what I can buy in bulk that will store a long time because whole foods is rarely on my way anywhere. They will let me use my glass canning jars and lids.

[Chicken lady]

Yesterday I stopped at an indoor farmers market on my way home from work just to see what they had. I let the woman selling napalese food give me a sample in a plastic cup with a plastic spoon. - it just smelled so good! And it was.

i would like to stop and get dinner from her one day, but I will have to take a container and see if she will fill it, because she has styrofoam clam shells.

[iris lilies]

Yesterday I stopped at an indoor farmers market on my way home from work just to see what they had. I let the woman selling napalese food give me a sample in a plastic cup with a plastic spoon. - it just smelled so good! And it was.

i would like to stop and get dinner from her one day, but I will have to take a container and see if she will fill it, because she has styrofoam clam shells.

Ack I HATE those styrofoam take out containers.

On the other hand, I like some of the plastic ones used in restaurants around here. I reuse them many tomes for frozen meals I make at home. I use them until they break.

[Chicken lady]

Today I took two of the styrofoam trays I should never have bought to the art teacher who uses styrofoam plates for paint trays (that's another battle). And I grabbed the (clean, dry, not broken) play dressing table and Barbie princess castle out of my neighbors' trash about 30 seconds before the trash truck arrived. The toys are in my car to be dropped at the goodwill on my way home. (I left the missing a drawer rolling cabinet and the needed new paint child's chair, since I have no way to know if the original paint contained lead.)

[Chicken lady]

Took the cat to the vet. Three plastic syringes, one sharp, one plastic pill bottle, two pieces of paper, one ziplock bag.

[Tybee]

Took the cat to the vet. Three plastic syringes, one sharp, one plastic pill bottle, two pieces of paper, one ziplock bag.

Am trying to follow what you are keeping track of. Is it things you are acquiring in life? Do you want to reduce the number of things, or is your aim to recycle things out of your life? Just trying to understand better.

[iris lilies]

Took the cat to the vet. Three plastic syringes, one sharp, one plastic pill bottle, two pieces of paper, one ziplock bag.

Our cat had surgery on Tuesday and have no idea what waste was generated from that. She is not dong well, we are giving her sub-q fluids at hme which is generating needles and one bag for the fluid. Fortunately i keep a very large stash of old towels and padding for pets, sick or healthy. We seld M use paper towels for pet cleanup events, but I do a LOT of loads of wash.

[Mary B.]

Our cat had surgery on Tuesday and have no idea what waste was generated from that. She is not dong well, we are giving her sub-q fluids at hme which is generating needles and one bag for the fluid. Fortunately i keep a very large stash of old towels and padding for pets, sick or healthy. We seld M use paper towels for pet cleanup events, but I do a LOT of loads of wash.

Hope she'll recover, iris lilies. We did sub-q fluids for a cat for a while and i found it quite stressful.