So, I very much want to try new habits that will improve my life. I would like to live a little greener, because it would make me feel good and be good for my budget. So lately I've been thinking about green options.
What I've come up with so far that's doable for me :
- One that I've already done : kick my soda habit. For the last few years I've been drinking as much as a 2 liter of diet soda every single day. Every day! Do you have any idea how much that piles up? It was sapping my budget and the bottles were cluttering up my room. I felt so bad about not recycling them. But through effort and withdrawal headaches, I have officially kicked the sweet stuff. I am drinking nothing but water and actually enjoying it. And it's about $10 in savings each week. Yeah!
- I've shrunk out of pretty much my entire closet in the last two years. I made do and wore them to the point that it got ridiculous, but then it was time to get rid of them. So now all those old clothes have found their way to a hamper downstairs, to be cut up to make doll clothing for my BJD. I'm still getting the hang of sewing, and it takes a weight off my nerves that I'm not buying new fabric just to screw up. Yay repurposing!
- Once my stand mixer arrives (I chose store pickup to save on shipping), I'll be making homemade breads and pizza dough, which I'm told is cheaper. And I'll be able to customize to my tastes. Bear in mind that there was a time in my life when I was getting Dominos delivery as often as 4 times a week. I have so many vices to lose.
- Biking to the grocer. I've located a bike path that will allow me to take backroads rather than the highway to reach the Kroger. I won't be able to try this out until I get the bike, which won't happen for about a week (my savings "budget bank" is at $64 right now). But I'm hopeful. It would save so much money in gas.
- Getting a trash can devoted specifically for cat litter. So far I have been saving grocery plastic bags and using them to scoop poop. But if I had a bin set up on the porch or garage, I could dump litter until the trash bag is full, and not worry about smells. Then I could convert to reusable bags.
- I want to try my hand at a little gardening. I'm so black thumbed that I killed a cactus once, so I don't know how this would turn out. And for a long time I assumed I couldn't grow anything I would eat, since because of my selective eating disorder, I won't even touch most fruits or veggies. But I have an idea now. I could grow tomatoes and herbs to make my own pizza sauce! My favorite food in the world! So yeah, I want to give it a go.
- Sometime in the future I'd like to get a small solar panel for the roof. One of the $100-200 ones. From my research its seems that wouldn't run much, but it would be enough to light my bedroom. I'll have to hide this one from my parents though (they don't approve of solar power). And I'll wait a year or two, because rumor has it that a new production method is going to slash the prices of solar panels by 80% come 2012.
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