I am intermittently clearing up. I have just filled two bin bags of rubbish from the living room. Fortunately little bear was not there to see some of his more tattered books disappear - well chewed rather than well read is the best description.
However as I have dug behind and under things I have thought about how much packaging comes into this house, how much comes in just to throw away. If I get little bear a scone from the sandwich shop there is a paper bag. Dear heart likes his cola in cans. Obviously you buy things in containers, but sometimes the layers and layers of packaging are so wasteful.
Evil cat's food is a case in point. We buy a shipping order about every three months, to get past the 'free postage' point and also so I don't need to keep thinking about whether she is getting low. We get the items from the internet because it is cheaper and saves dear heart getting a small amount from the vet (who doesn't provide large amounts) and has to go an hour out of his way back from work. So we order crunchies - just in plastic sacks around 2kg each. Evil cat is supposed to only need around 25g per day. Actually she eats about half of that, but begs for at least twice the quantity. She also gets pouches, which I can cope with because of the lack of waste, she eats more and it adds liquid to a dehydrated tabby. But pouches are packaged as boxes of 12, and you can only buy 3 x 12, in a further box. And the crunchies and the boxes of boxes of pouches come in a further big box for delivery.
Dear heart may be going to the tip this weekend.
1 comment:
Oh I love it when my husband is going to the tip. I run around with a black bin bag finding more rubbish to get rid of. It always feels better when its gone
You have done really well and you are right the packaging is mad. I now have a carrier bag in the porch for all the rubbish leaflets that come through the letterbox. They dont even make it into the house anymore, straight into the carrier bag for recycling
Anne
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