The downfall

Well, my garbage-free life was a disaster. I am no good at it at all - I like chocolate WAY too much and I can't plan ahead enough to get chocolate only from Unpackaged... I surely did try to keep it up... the one thing I did do was create lots of really wonderful things from my Dumpster Diving forays. I am really good at getting cardboard now, and relatively fearless in obtaining scrap paper. On that note... I put up a couple of the sets of instructions up on Instructables - and within 8 hrs my little sewn bound notebook was a favourite! How exciting. Oh yeah, back to what I was talking about... Garbage-freeness. It didn't work. I tried. I have cut back my garbage exponentially and most importantly it has made me really think about what I buy and the packaging it comes in. People are starting to care more and more, hopefully we keep it up and it doesn't stay in the realm of the upper-middle class and disseminates to everyone.

Dumpster Diving Grossness

I've been pretty lucky with my dumpster diving in general... I've stayed away from most gross things... but today I didn't have the same luck. I brought home a really nice pristine box from a baby's toy. I was pumped - it was nice thin cardboard... just what I needed. Then I opened the box. At first I just saw all of the other packaging that usually comes with such a toy... but it smelled a bit funny, like a litter box... I was looking for the source of the smell and there it was in the corner... A diaper. It wasn't a totally gross diaper, just a wrapped up diaper. Makes you really think about recycling and all the sorting and all the regular garbage that goes in - and it makes me wonder how they sort it. I'll have to look into that some more...

My Room...

My room has become a garbage tip.  Now this isn't big news for anyone who really knows me - I am a messy child - but with all this reusing things have gotten out of control!  There is cardboard EVERYWHERE!  Wish me luck in using it all!