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I’m sure I’m not the only one who has way too much stuff. My home is filled with things I barely ever touch. I often leave a store having purchased something I don’t need.
Interestingly, embracing “Reduce. Reuse. Recycle” has an incredibly liberating effect. Not actually needing stuff is liberating. Giving stuff away feels great. Not buying stuff saves money.
It’s also really simple: I just don’t go to the store. Every time I think I might need something I force myself to wait 24 hours. See if I can’t do without. Turns out 90% of the time I can.
Our town has zero-sort recycling. Which isn’t the best since it gets contaminated easily, meaning perhaps ~40% of it actually ends up being recycled. The rest likely will get burned. So recycling is good but not ideal. Reducing and reusing is much more important.
I started by no longer buying what I couldn’t recycle. Any food wrapped in styrofoam is out. I really like mushrooms, but when they come in styrofoam packages I don’t buy them.
Of course taking bags to shop is simple. Always remembering them doesn’t work yet, but sometimes I just keep stuff in the shopping cart and avoid using a bag altogether.
Nowadays there’s such things as flushable cat litter or the “mooncup” – one can really avoid trash quite well, apart from dental floss and the occasional contaminated recyclable.
Btw: Reuse also includes “Repair”…
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