I decided today that even though I want a new shiny vacuum cleaner, I don’t need one. 
Ergo, I will not buy an extra “thing”.
Tonight I’m going to chop up a bunch of veg on the verg of going off and hucking it the freezer-- reducing food waste is a goal of mine this year!
Q for the group: should i blanch veg or can I freeze things like broccoli and cauliflower raw?
Broccoli is better blanched; I don’t know about cauli.
Removed the nylon bristles from my old bamboo toothbrushes so I can use the handles as plant markers.
How did you do this? I need to do it on some as well but they seem to be stuck in there real good!
Tweezers! It was fiddly. Once I understood how they were threaded it was much easier.
Got our leaking hot water heater fixed. No more wasted water 
Yesterday:
As always, cloth nappies on Ewok except for overnight.
Today so far:
Offered to take my teenage cousin to a climate protest.
Found a variety of frozen fish that comes in cardboard and no plastic, so we’ll be sticking to that brand from now on.
Yesssssssssssssssss!
Please share! I’ve narrowed down brands with no inner plastic bag but the cardboard is usually plastic coated inside 
I do have to check the nature of the cardboard and if it’s plastic coated, but it was just amazing enough that there wasn’t a full bag!
The little frozen apricot, apple and apple & blackberry pies don’t have plastic lining in their cardboard I’m pretty sure, because I saw it said “please recycle all my packaging!” from memory…
My husband’s, not mine: he was taking the recycling out. Unlike a lot of places in the US, we can still recycle a lot of things, since Portland is doing some crazy hand sorting thing or something. Neighbor saw him taking out recycling and asked “ooh can we recycle X and Y?” so husband showed her the website to use to see what we can recycle, and showed her in the recycling room where the chart is.
I planted 3 trees over the past fortnight.
I don’t know about where you are, but in my city, plastic coated cardboard is fully recyclable (eg. milk cartons are (but NOT tetra paks, which have metal impregnated in them)). I would check your municipalities’ info. I would be surprised if frozen fish came in plain cardboard, from a food safety point of view.
I checked the box and still don’t know if it has plastic lining (you’re probably right) but it is fully recyclable, so I’m going to take that as a win since it’s still improving over an actual plastic bag that I’ll have trouble recycling.
I ate leftovers today and stayed home. I opened the curtains and blinds to let in the sun, and the house was warm despite raining most of the day.
Yesterday we replaced vertical blinds with curtains that block the light and heat much better.
I love this! I may need to create something similar.
Do you know when your council area is moving to the three bin system?
I got a kit to replace the lock cylinders in the deadbolt at the rental instead of replacing the whole locks. Cheaper and much less garbage.
I don’t, I need to ask them (maybe publically on FB?) because they’ve not volunteered the info anywhere yet…
they AREN’T. That’s why I haven’t seen any info! They’re trying a “waste to energy” system instead. Uuugh this is frustrating and I didn’t have my shit together to check through their waste plan when it was up for comment.
