Purchases this week
I bought no new items this week for my 24/24 challenge, except for medical eye drops (which, being medical, does not count toward the 24 new-item-limit).
I did visit Scraps KC to drop off client donations, and while I was there I purchased a lidded storage tote and a laundry basket for $5. Everything sold at Scraps KC is donated/secondhand, so neither item counted toward my limit. The laundry basket is to collect client donations for work, and the tote is to store empty jars and containers in the basement for us to reuse. Then we can take our containers to Soap Refill Station and fill them with whatever household cleaners or toiletries we need, once we use up what we have at home.
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Just $5 for both these bad gurlz
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The wall of containers for sale at Scraps KC- all secondhand, all 25 cents to $4
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Tidbits & Wins
- I started re-reading Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson on my Kindle app- I first read the book in 2014. It's mind-boggling how Bea and her family can fit all of their trash from 6 years into a single jar. ZWH is inspiring and I'm pleased at how much I retained from reading it a decade ago; I remember being so captivated the first time I read it, and now.
- I finished a stick of deodorant last week, and placed the plastic applicator in my TerraCycle box (there is no recycling symbol on the bottom, and I'm too wary to wish-cycle it), but the little plastic piece on the inside still had remnants of deodorant. So using the pokey part of a floss pick (which also got TerraCycle'd), I dug out the last bits of deodorant, which lasted me the entire week. Now it's pretty bare-bones, so I'm ready to move on and use another stick of deodorant that I bought back in 2020... It really takes awhile to go through deodorant, doesn't it? There's really no need for a back stock beyond one stick, yet I have 3 sticks, plus a handful of travel minis. Excessive.
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| I dug a week's worth of deodorant out of this internal piece. |
- I donated some of my own books to the library, including a beautiful Nat Geo illustrated bird book that I bought myself last year from Half Price Books. I love birds, but I would rather actually go birding than own things to be like, "I love birds, because I own this!" Every purchase, even a misguided one, is a chance to learn something new about myself (or in this instance, to reinforce a truth I've known about myself for awhile- I don't like owning things that get in the way of what I love, which is most things that do that). Also when it comes to books, unless it's so personal to me (books my dad edited in the 80's, my high school yearbooks), or a reference book that I will look at multiple times, I don't like the idea of a big library of my own physical books- I would rather put these books into circulation and have them accessible and enjoyed by all. Libraries rock.
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| I donated books. Even some bird books. |
- Speaking of libraries, I checked out a Moon travel guidebook on the Yucatán peninsula for a trip I'm going on in June. Library = sharing economy = library book is not a new item toward 24/24.
- I went to the dentist to get fitted for Invisalign and saw a sign on the door- I can recycle Invisalign, because my dentist ALSO uses TerraCycle! So dope. Shout out to Williams Family Dentistry for green practices.
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My dentist rocks.
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Weekly Stats & Take-aways
- No new items this week that count toward the 24 item limit, so I'm still at 1.5 of 24 items. At this rate, I'll have 39 new items this year, which still exceeds the limit but is FAR better than last week when the rate was 78 new items.
- Still waiting on Azazie to respond about the swatches (see last week's post), and I just sent them a follow up email.
- It's still too early to tell if I've made this challenge too easy or too hard for myself. Maybe it's too easy, because I don't struggle with compulsive shopping. Maybe it's too hard, because I'm in a wedding, plus throwing our own wedding this year- avoiding buying new might be tricky.
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