I do like my parents’ city compost service, since we can throw all food waste, incl. meat, oil, and food-paper products in quite indiscriminately. But is it worth $16 when you have a free backyard option? Probably not.
Our city offers compost but building owner don’t want to pay (it’s included for SFH but extra for multi unit 
). Considering finding out the price and polling the neighbors or something…? Activism is scary. 
We compost but the system fails when the inside small bin gets taken out to the compost bin and doesn’t return.
My roomie in grad school started a pile in the yard (veg only, no meat, oil). Our system failed when the bin was full and it was cold/rainy/muddy/snowy…ie most of the year in Central IL 
Ah, that shouldn’t be a problem here - I’ve actually put ours into a shaded part of the yard. It is actually almost full so once I’ve topped it up, I’ll establish a worm farm while it does its thing for a few months. I’m probably not a two bin guy.
Edit - Ah you mean it was too cold/muddy/rainy to take it out to the pile. We tend to do that ok, but don’t bring the small bin back in. Get distracted, or don’t want to clean out any gunk in it.
Two little bins! We have stackable ones so if we don’t bring it in, there is a second chance underneath 
Edit: it falls apart when both get left outside 
My offspring is turning out to be a very enthusiastic worm farmer. This is good, because I’m more likely to take out scraps if I know the whole process is 10+ minutes of entertainment.
Our electricity meter was switched over a couple of days ago to a new system. It’s cheaper to run things in their off-peak times for us now, which means they can supply a lower overall baseload power, ie don’t need new coal fired power stations etc. Last night I used the timer to start the dishwasher at 10PM, and ran it on Eco Wash, Night Mode. I didn’t hear it and neither did kiddo so that’s a success!
Ponder heard it, but he was actually awake already. My clean dishes fairy is going to come nightly from now on.
Bigger kid went clothes shopping independently for the first time today. He needs pants. I thought he was going to the cheap crappy place at the mall where pants are $12 but instead he went to the thrift store and spent $12. Less waste for the same thing, he says. I am pleased with him.
Yep, that’s what I meant! Haha. We would dump ours out and then come back and wash it in the kitchen sink. Though now I think of it I did start bringing a juice bottle (2qt) of water to rinse it into the pile…
My brother just gave me refillable coffee pods for my birthday. I am super excited to try them out with ground coffee. We’re not planning to replace the pod machine when it dies, but that could still be years away, and when that happens we could use the refillable pods at work or easily give them away.
My beautiful wonderful broken-in Blundstones with the sheepskin insoles have a layer of plastic inside the toe, probably to maintain the toe’s shape. I have shattered this plastic and it catches on my toenail, yanking it upwards when I walk. This is very painful. The cobbler doesn’t have a solution. He suggests replacing the boots.
Fie, I say.
Today I glued scraps of denim inside the boots, where the plastic is exposed and jagged. It might not work. But it might! And then I can keep my boots!
I found a collapsible bowl cup thing! In the used discount section of a local store, so it’s cheap and eco friendly. It didn’t have a price tag, so the guy was like, how much do you want to pay? Hah.
He was asking what it was, and I said I use up disposable cups when I’m out at bars and stuff. He thought it was such a cool idea that he’s going to get one too.
What a cool find! And even better, spreading good ideas to new people 
I shared seeds with my parents and sisters on the weekend. That will become food grown in their backyards! Also less waste because I can’t use 30 cucumber seeds.
Fished a cardboard toilet paper tube out of the bathroom trash and put it in the recycling. Even if all our recycling is going to the trash eventually now, we can at least try.
I found a nearly 100% recycled paper toilet paper that comes wrapped in paper (so no plastic waste) that I can order in bulk from the little grocery right next door. I ordered a big package of it earlier this year. The problem is that I think it does not agree with my skin.
Find a different recycled no-plastic toilet paper? Alternate between environmentally bad rolls and the better ones? Somehow magically toughen up my delicate bits? UGH.
I’m having a similar dilemma regarding toilet paper. I think my bits are now firmly in the STOP USING IT camp though 
My friend ran into this problem too. Recycled tp hurt sensitive skin. Is it more acidic or have more chemicals?
I’ve found recycled to be much scratchier!
I think now that we have a bidet I should look into reusable cloths for drying. I still use a small amount of TP. Probably after the renovation is done and we actually have a washer/dryer in our home again though.
I think mine are getting close to that. 
@Smacky I believe a huge thing about the recycled TP is just that it’s stiffer and rougher – the fibers are much shorter, and so it’s much, much scratchier.
I’ve been wondering about bidet + washable re-usable cloths too, @Meowmalade! Especially because cloth is often very soft and gentle on skin. It would involve an investment in some sort of bidet contraption, but the bigger thing is that I’m not sure I can get Wizard’s buy-in on that one. I would definitely need his buy-in to keep a bin of literal shit rags in the bathroom.
I agree that the recycled TP brands I’ve used are typically rougher. My current brand came in a gigantic case that was wrapped in paper, but it’s the worst texture I’ve ever used.
I have a friend who has used washcloths for urine rags for years. Even while raising kids. It worked really well. I did for quite some time but stopped when I had tenants since I have just one bathroom. That cuts down on total paper use, anyway.
I used a squirt bottle (like a diner ketchup bottle) to clean myself after giving birth, for weeks and weeks - I’d forgotten about that. That would be cheaper and more incognito than a bidet.
