This (French-born) lady who lives in California with her husband and two young boys, takes glass jars to the grocery store to put her deli cheese and meats from the meat counter into and brings a pillowcase to the baker to put her loaves of bread in so as to not end up with plastics at home to dispose of. Brilliant!
Yvonne and I are all set to sew up some cloth sacks for our bulk foods and to bring containers for deli food and to scope out sources of bulk shampoo, other soaps, and various other things. A key to making this work obviously, is to prepare foods "from the bottom up" rather than getting pre-processed foods. I already do this mostly but clearly there is opportunity to do more.
This is sort of exciting! I've been looking for some sort of idea I could become passionate about... well, other than knitting that is. It has occurred to me that knitting could really be my stress reliever and not necessarily a "passion".
Uh, on second thought, probably everyone who knows me would disagree with that assessment given the fact that I do manage to work it into a lot of conversations... :)
So after spending some time reading The Zero Waste Home Blog at http://www.zerowastehome.blogspot.com/ and following links that led to other links and getting really inspired to declutter and try to impersonate a "minimalist", I am ready to tackle a couple of things.
1. Make cloth sacks for bulk foods and produce. Put them into trunk of the car along with reusable grocery bags I now consistently remember to use.
3. Make my own glass cleaner and store it in a glass jar/bottle until my current bottle of Windex runs out and hope it works just as well. I know better than to wait until the current supply is gone because then it will just be a big deal and hard to work in.
We'll just see how all this works out... haha.
Oh tell the story the way it really happened...that I told you the wrong magazine in the first place, sent you on a wild goose chase and then we finally settled in talking about Bea! but did you look at the Whole Living Magazine yet? there is a really good article in it that pertains to you and me...hah!
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