Oh dear. My goal was to be posting twice a week! Gah!
Well, if my blogging habits aren't quite up to snuff, at least I haven't lapsed in trying to reduce my rubbish!
Remember when I set a goal to go 3 weeks without having to take out the trash? I went 4! TWICE!
To be fair, it was a little overfull by then...I had meant to take it out at 3, but was once again ill. (I'm a Nanny, and there was an episode of Preschool Goo: Return of the Ick!) Anyway, going out into the winter early in the morning was just not a thing that I was willing to do. Soooooo 4 Weeks!
Then I went ANOTHER 4 weeks! (Full Disclosure: 3 weeks and 6 days. Because I lapsed in my vigilance and didn't bother to hover whilst Gentleman cleaned up after dinner - so a meat bone (instead of going into the grocery bag in the freezer) and meat juice covered styrofoam (instead of being washed for recycling) went into the bin and started to SMELL.
Most recently it's been 3 weeks. Which is a bit of a setback and I blame the large, not bin shaped, not recyclable foamy padding that came in one of Gentleman's Amazon packages. I don't understand how Amazon does it. Sometimes there's lovely brown paper packaging that I can shred up and send to my Earthy Crunchy Mama's compost bin. Sometimes there's a box within a box within a box. Sometimes there's recyclable plastic bubble padding. Sometimes there's foam...
I'm a little disappointed in 3 weeks after having accidentally having only taken the trash out once a month for two months. But there are worse things in this world. And now I have a new goal to keep working toward: Reducing my rubbish to one curbside trip a month! Aaaaaand Go!
But what about the recycling bin????
The recycling bin (Same size as the kitchen trash - about 13 gallons) goes out usually every week- sometimes two weeks, depending on how much juice we buy. (Lot's of orange juice - we're very scurvy conscious around here...) (And I may use V8 as insurance that I am, in fact, getting enough veggies to eat even if I don't make them every night (like pizza night. The point of delivery is that I don't have to cook!)
Now that summer is approaching my goal is to eat more solid fruit, rather than juiced, and drink more water (even I draw the line on hot tea in 90* weather). My goal with the recycling bin is to get it out every other week, rather than maybe every week and maybe not.
Ok! You've been quickly updated with a quick update! And for my next trick - to post this and immediately type out another post so that I have one ready to go on Monday!!!
Cheers!
