For example, he went grocery shopping last night and came home with bags of whole grains and lentils to replenish our cabinets which had been reduced to microwave popcorn and Craisins over the past couple of weeks. When he got home, we decided to put them into the empty jars I had been diverting from the recycling bin for just such a purpose:
We undertook this task on the floor, since we had misplaced the funnel. You could have made a multi-bean and lentil soup from all the stuff we swept into the trash. But it was fun, and we felt very nerdy and granola. Especially when Les suggested that he save all the plastic bags and their twist-ties and reuse them next time he went to the store. This wouldn't be a big deal, since we're taking fabric bags to the store now anyway. We can just stash them in our canvas bags. Yay for zero packaging progress!
I still need to master Jackie's jar-cleaning technique to get my re-purposed pasta sauce and salsa jars sparkling clean and label-free. But I'm OK with stuck-on bits of label glue for now. It's on the outside, so who cares?
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