Bought our veggies at a farmer’s market. Keeps us out of the junk aisle at the supermarket, and ended up with minimal packaging.
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Used up some food at home and picked blackberries instead of going grocery shopping.
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Used social media to educate people about environmental infrastructure. Hoping to do more of this - if people know it’s a thing, they start asking their local govt to do it AND local govt who are doing it love positive media.
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Cut up a ripped, secondhand pillowcase, for rags and handkerchiefs. Still in progress, but I’ve got some done. I’ve been using toilet paper for handkercheifs and thinking every time that I should get some cloth options. I placed some of the squares next to the paper towels in the kitchen. Hopefully my roommates and I start using them to clean up small spills instead of the paper, since it’s right there, and there will be so many we don’t need to worry about ruining all the active dishtowels.
I’ve been waiting until I washed a load of sheets, since the pillowcase came from a stranger, but like, I’m using it to wipe my nose and clean up dirt, it doesn’t need to be perfectly clean first.
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Having a basket of napkins and dishcloths on top of the kitchen counter has cured me of wanting to use paper. I lose the roll for weeks at a time now (until I find cat vomit)
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Going berry picking with friends today. A couple things we did to help the eco aspect: picked a farm equidistant between us to reduce total driving. We also picked an organic farm. And of course I’ll be bringing my own tubs to get the berries home, to avoid being given a plastic bag (although this has only happened once- usually they have cleaned out yogurt tubs and stuff like that to give you).
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Menstrual cup!
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Using the water from my humidifier in the tub of my clothes washer before I start a wash cycle (so the machine doesn’t need as much plumbed water)
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Huh. Smart! I don’t think we have a humidifier, but I wonder if we could collect rainwater or something…
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Or shower water! I’ve been doing baths instead to soak in magnesium but when I shower I catch the water in a plastic tub while it’s warming up.
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Only works if you have a load sensing washer, not one that pipes in based on volume. Just FYI.
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Oh good point. Mine has a setting that fills based on weight in the drum.
My previous washer didn’t so I’d set it to a lower fill volume. I looked up the volume in the manual online to get a rough idea of how much less, then checked it the first few loads, then just kept it routine.
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I figured MJ probably already runs on the smallest size, knowing how small her wardrobe is 
but yes, for larger loads that’s an option!
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Hahaha, my wardrobe is HUGE right now! Buy Nothing, and my aunt shipping me a box from storage, and of course I wait until I no longer have clean underwear before doing laundry. I’m usually filling the drum, and I have other clothes to wear while it runs! So crazy.
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Purchased a new set of hankies to add to our collection, because Mr H and Ewok are both enjoying hankies now and I couldn’t find any secondhand in the op shops. Short term, I’m annoyed that I need to buy new, but long term, it’ll be another way that we shift from disposables to reusables.
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I did not buy sushi, which would come with at least 3 plastic parts, but instead got pasta and fried Nutella balls which come in (plastic lined?) cardboard.
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It takes three litres of water before our hot tap is hot… so I’ve started catching that in a watering can for the toddler to water the strawberries with.
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I just set up a new monthly donation to have trees planted, sufficient to more than offset our carbon production (this does NOT release us from the obligation to keep reducing our impact!).
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I picked berries before my bike ride, and I didn’t need to dip into my store bought raisins for snacks.
I resisted the lure of meat and ordered a veggie burger at dinner.
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