Um no. Anyone who's seen my cuddly form would know that. However, some aspects of our life certainly look that way on paper. I've always been fond of the mantra reduce, reuse, recycle.
Reducing and reusing just make good economic sense.
If you don't use something, you're not spending money on it. Buying larger packages and portioning into smaller ones reduces the price of some foods immensely. For $5 I can buy a can of nuts with 16 servings, or 6 "packets." Single serve does have it's place, but I didn't cave until I hit kid 5. My friend J warned me about this. Her mom always told her, "there's something about the 5th one". She was right.
That's really where reusing comes in. I've seen purses made out of Capri Sun pouches and plarn (plastic yarn made from shopping bags) is the "in" mommy craft right now. Grandma's drawer full of margarine tubs and Dad's babyfood jar screw sorting all fall into this category. Kids are experts at this. Who hasn't seen a shoe-box car or a toilet paper roll telescope or a wrapping paper roll light sabre?
Once they've beaten the cardboard to a bloody pulp, that's where recycling comes in.
Recycling is easier than ever. Most of us have curbside bins we don't even have to sort. There's a Ripple glass bin in the parking lots of local grocery stores. No sorting there either. Recycling is just like exercise. As Nike put it, "just do it."
Thanks to our fair city recycling is an economical measure too. Every item we're too lazy to rinse out and recycle draws us closer to the dreaded 1.50 "trash overage" bag. I confess to using about two of these bags a month, usually when we clean out the van...but in our defense, the trash bins are meant for four people and we have eight.
Recycling is also just a nice "thank you." to the earth and it's resources. Sure the earth is going to wear out, but why should we help it along? We shouldn't. We're stewards. See Genesis for the command, the gospels for what happens to stewards who don't take their stewardship seriously.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Be green to save green. It's just common sense.
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