Wow that happened quickly – January has gone and along with it the first week of February. Nothing like going back to work to slow your blogging down. However having set up good routines over the holidays it has been fairly easy to keep going with my personal consumer challenges even when exhausted at the end of a working day.
It is shopping day today and I am browsing over our fridge and cupboards making our list. 37 days takeaway free!! I am probably of course crippling the local takeaway economy. Hubby has cheated occasionally as he buys his lunch but overall he is slowly making better food choices.
It’s such a nice feeling to get to the end of the week and know that you have actually used the items that you bought shopping the week before and have tried hard not to waste anything. It saves time too – no more having to clean out the fruit/vege box, coming across something dead at the bottom! Every week it is automatically cleared out by planning our meals around what we need to use up. I am looking forward to getting the house renovation finished and the landscaping done so that I can start growing a few things.
Today’s consumer decision was one of cost versus creating waste. Once a month my treat is a home/garden magazine. It is read over many times and kept, not thrown away. I decided that it was time to get a subscription as it is a significant cost saving – $7.20 vs $4.60 per issue. Having got my credit card details and the phone in my hand it suddenly hit me. When I buy a magazine by post it has to be individually wrapped and individually transported to me. Environmentally it is much better to pick the magazine up when I am at the shop to get my groceries. Damn.……why couldn’t I have had that thought after I had sorted out the subscription? I’ll have to put that one in the think about it later box to see if I can come up with a solution that suits me and my conscience.