So I have been totally inspired by the zero waste home blog. This family of four makes almost no trash! They collected all their garbage for a year and it all fit in a mason jar, except for their toothbrushes, for which they could find no recyclable or compostable alternative. Amazing. We have been working with being a "minimal waste family," but we think we could do more. So we got rid of our big garbage can. We now have a small can upstairs for disposable diapers (which we try not to use) and an even smaller can under our kitchen sink. This was our first full week and guess what? We didn't need that big old garbage can!
I have also been totally inspired by Dee Williams. She lives in a teeny tiny house and only owns 300 items. That is what inspires me. Her stuff! If she needs or wants something new she has to move something out of her house. I probably have more than 300 things in my kitchen alone! And how much of that is stuff I use once a year or stuff I might someday eventually maybe probably need. So Jeff and I are celebrating our 30th birthdays this year and for our gift we are getting rid of one unnecessary item every day between his birthday and mine. That gives us about five and a half months and we are starting in the kitchen. This is going to be a thoroughly interesting exercise.
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Deanna, I keep thinking about your blog as I walk through the house. We have so much stuff! Great birthday project you two have. It is always amazing when Craig and I do canoe-in camping that we can fit all we need into a canoe. We sleep well with our thermrests and pillows (need those!)and take camp chairs to sit on. We eat well and manage quite nicely with a spoon an fork replacing all our kitchen gadgets. Then we come home to all these rooms and stuff.
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