I brought a cleaned out pickle jar and a mason jar I got secondhand with me to a restaurant so I could pack up the leftovers.
This was the first time I’ve done this, and an unanticipated benefit was how easy it was to transport everything home. I just threw the jars in my tote bag; no need to worry about spills on the bus, train, and walk home. They also take up less space in my fridge and freezer.
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Today:
- Bought something I wanted secondhand instead of new
- Made sure that another purchase aligned with my environmental values
- Combined trips in the car to minimise extra driving
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Today we ate leftovers and didn’t leave the house for anything.
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Ate leftovers for lunch and cooked stuff from the fridge for dinner. Only left the house to walk to pick up a couple buy nothing things, one was a planner I would have needed to source somehow so reducing resources needed. Read library books and a library dvd. Husband walked to meet a friend for lunch rather than drive.
Yesterday I did my grocery shopping at the bulk store using reused bags. I got the train into the city and back. Also didn’t leave the house other than this errand, reading library books and eating leftovers from the fridge.
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Instead of throwing away “padsicles” I didn’t end up using (I had a c section), I gifted them an a lot of other peri care items through buy nothing to a woman due in 10 days. 
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Emailed Mr H this list of banks who do and don’t invest in fossil fuels:
So we can consider shifting our mortgage etc to a more ethical organisation.
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Realized that our baby is almost 2 months old, and we’re still successfully a one car family. wasn’t sure if we’d be able to navigate this, especially since Car2Go pulled out of Portland.
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Yay!!
We’ve managed to stay a one car family with a two year old… but I do end up having to use uber more than I used to.
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Ooooooh so pretty!
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Very pretty! Makes me want it haha
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It matches a lot of accents in my home. I’m totally the target market. And it’s virtuous.
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We’ve hit the temperatures and still-dark-at-both-5s where I wish I had a car.
Going backwards isn’t an option, even though at the bus stop I was mentally pondering the environmental cost of food waste (huge impact) versus car ownership (moderate impact) and trying to figure out how many years of absolute zero waste my household would need to be to offset a car 
I forgot my small thing!
I discovered greens and lettuce I’d forgotten that were a bit dried out so I stir fried them with other chopped veg. Tasty.
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Did not leave the house today, ate food within house, used up food instead of cooking entirely new meals.
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I’ve been doing a lot of this, this week!
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Happy to see our lender on the good list. That is luck rather than planning on our part though.
I only used my legs for transport today. We set up a new tray in the worm farm made from a salvaged styrofoam box and walked to the park. It’s a meat free night here too.
I’m in the process of giving up coffee. I do not enjoy it right now so am taking the opportunity. I can’t cold turkey due to the addiction, so I’m cutting it slowly. My French press is 8g of coffee down from 18g.
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Yesterday I agreed to make a date with a friend to brainstorm ideas on how to reduce our plastic waste. No actual reduction yet but I’m looking forward to having a buddy to do it with.
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High fives and solidarity!! Out of my regular foods coffee had the highest impact by a long shot. I also am someone who has to cut it out slowly or bad things happen, mostly to people around me having to deal with my withdrawal attitude 
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Walked kiddo to daycare, and Ponder took the bus to work.
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Doing my usual things today:
- all kinds of workarounds to avoid owning two cars
- cloth nappies on the baby and cloth period products on me
- vegetarian day
- weighing up carefully the environmental impact of clothes versus how much I really NEED them before purchasing
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