The Green Thing

A couple of weeks ago I told you about the SEESA Rummage Sale.

On my second trip, one of the lovely volunteers packaged my items.

{By the way, this was done with more care for my $2.50 purchase than is usually done for purchases I've made for hundreds of dollars.}

She picked out a shoebox that was in really good shape.

"This would be a good box for wrapping gifts" she said.

I replied "perfect with Christmas coming".

Her eyes seemed to light up that I was on board.

"We call that recycling" she told me with a smile.

If it had been anyone else I would have thought she was mocking me.

She was, however, completely sincere.

It reminded me of a story I read {on Facebook I think}.

I searched for the story and couldn't find an original but did find this adaptation.

We do "the green thing".

We put our recyclables in the blue bag.

We started composting {and are horrible at it}.

We do cloth diapers.

I consider myself relatively "green".

The truth is though, there is so much more I can do.

Lately, I have been paying attention to how much we waste.

How much we buy on a whim that isn't needed.

How much we have that we don't use.

I am now making a conscious effort to reduce and reuse more.

Starting with:

Burps cloths to face cloths.

I have a ton of burp cloths.

My amazing friend Kim gave them to us when Fiona was born.

Thankfully we are now through the spitting up phase.

{Cedric was never really much of a spitter-upper.}

I do however need face cloths and lots of 'em.

We go through multiple each day for after meals and snacks.

I started using burp cloths to wipe faces and found they were too big.

This meant they stayed wet for a long time and started to smell.

I decided to take advantage of the serger I am returning today and went to work.

Each burp cloth yielded 4-6 face cloths.

Now we're all stocked up.

Cost $0.