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Reduce Reuse Recycle

April 22nd, 2008 at 07:29 pm

Happy Earth Day!

I’m bummed because it’s raining and I was going to take my 3.5 yo out to clean up trash in our neighborhood. We can do it tomorrow (it’s not like the trash is going anywhere) but I wanted to do it today in honor of Earth Day. I’m sure they’re talking about Earth Day at school and it would have been a nice ‘tie-in’ to bring the concepts close to home. I think I’ll just stress that EVERY day is Earth Day so we should clean up the trash anyway – it’s the socially responsible thing to do.

Recently I’ve been bringing a lot of leftovers to work for lunch. I tend to have 2 or 3 different plastic containers at any given time so I just keep a stack of paper plates in my desk drawer. At lunch I dump my food on to the plate and nuke it. Well, in my effort to Reduce Reuse Recycle I’m going to go to the Dollar Store after work and pick up a regular plate to use. I already just wash my plastic utensils and reuse those. I don’t know why I didn’t think to get a plate before. I don’t just heat them in the plastic containers b/c I often have more than one serving and I don’t want to reheat what I’m not going to eat that day. Also, there’s always a long line at the microwave so I try to be efficient and just have to heat one thing.

I do believe my efforts to lead a more frugal lifestyle will lead to a more ‘green’ lifestyle, as well. And that is never a bad thing.

Challenge: Found 51 cents around the house . Does my house produce coins? It seems like I’ve been finding a lot of change around lately. If so, I hope it starts spitting out dollar coins soon!

2 Responses to “Reduce Reuse Recycle”

  1. JanH Says:
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    LOL. If you don't have a money tree, maybe you DO have a house that spits out money.

  2. Petunia Says:
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    "If so, I hope it starts spitting out dollar coins soon! " -- LOL!

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