I just realized I had a car free weekend, also! Walked to a little grocery store in my neighborhood to refill some bulk spices, rode my bike around, and generally hung out at home. I realized a few weeks ago that I should do my errands to+from work, when I already have to be driving that distance, instead of making special trips on the weekends. So now I grocery shop/errand run on Monday+Friday after work, and I don’t have to drive extra or stress about crowded stores on my days off. It’s been super great!
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Ooh, I’ve been reusing bread bags for cat litter but hadn’t thought of bags from cereal and frozen fruit. Thanks @JanetJackson and @Meowmalade!
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The litter bags themselves make the best poop bags! I fill them up, tape them, and then throw them in the trash (30 pounds later).
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I use litter bags also, when I do the complete clean out once a month. 
I reuse all kinds of small bags for cat litter. If I am conscientious about it I never ever run out.
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I found a little food imports store in my neighborhood that has like 15 different varieties of olives in bulk. I have a pretty bad olive habit, and go through at least 2 Costco sized jars a month…now I can bring my own and have (probably better tasting) olives in bulk and stop recycling SO many olive jars.
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I buy several brands of litter (depending on what store I’m at and what coupons I have) and none of them come in bags…?
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I made cola using the soda stream syrup. Not as good as the canned stuff, but better cost per drink than the artisanal syrups. Probably worth finding a syrup or recipe at a good price point because I’m clearly going to keep buying pop. Although this one is in a plastic bottle so now I’m wondering if 35 cans are better than one bottle…but also the shipment sizes etc etc etc.
So I think I did a good thing today.
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I use pellets.They come in 40lb bags.
Now that we finally have laundry again, I cut up two old t-shirts and a pair of yoga pants as drying cloths to use with our bidet! Hopefully we can stop using TP!
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Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!! My favorite 
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…ok maybe not my FAVORITE in all the things ever possible lol
But definitely my personal favorite change in the last year.
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Gosh, now I realize I pee a LOT. I thought I’d cut up more than enough cloths but I go through a lot of them.
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Elderflower foraged locally and dried using my mobile solar-powered dehydrator (also known as a Jeep that almost never goes anywhere, parked in the sun)
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This is amazing
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I just put stuff on cookie sheets and set them on the dash, or hang them from a line in the back.
I do expect I’ll have to fire up my electric dehydrator when the tomato start coming in, though.
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I can’t remember where I first was told this, but figured I’d plonk it here:
Using old paper flour bags as drippings paper for just-fried bacon. No wasted paper towel, gives the flour paper a second life.
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I use a wire rack set in a cookie sheet so I can collect the drippings for later use. Or did, back in our real bacon days. Nowadays, husband’s gout means no pork for us, so we eat turkey bacon. You have to add some oil our cooking spray to the pan to cook that stuff half the time.
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I’ve just emailed a company to ask if their packaging is plastic free and compostable, since they make a big deal of their product being plastic free and compostable and shouldn’t that include the packaging? (And if Ethique can do 100% plastic free packaging, including the stickers on its boxes, so can other brands trying to get environmental cred.)
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Very cool. I saw Nick Cave at Red Hill a few years ago apparently more than ten years ago.
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