I Totally Bashed The Trash!

Here we are at day 28, the end of a 4 week challenge to not empty my 13 gallon trash can. And guess what, we did it! In all honesty I didn’t actually think we’d make it. We used to empty the trash twice a week and here we are 4 weeks later and there’s still room left in the can!

So what’s in it tonight? Well, there’s some lint, a hotdog package and another candy wrapper.

All it took to make it through was a few changes; tissues to hankies, plastic snack bags to clothe snack bags and the craziest, disposable feminine pads to reusable pads.

Also I tried to make more conscious shopping choices by choosing food items that came with as little packaging as possible.

Taking the photos and writing about it every night was definitely the best thing I could have done to make sure I stayed on track. There were certainly times I would have rather just thrown something away then figure out what else to do with it. But because I knew I’d being doing show and tell later I didn’t.

While some of you enjoyed my trash talk I know that others will be glad I’ll be talking about something else next time (hi, Brent!). Either way, I’d like to say thanks to all of you who left comments, tips and encouraging words or just plain stuck through it with me.

I’m definitely going to keep this up and keep trying to reduce our waste even more. Every Sunday I’ll let you know how we did for the week and hopefully you’ll let me know how you did as well.

Bash the Trash may be over but the Ditch the Disposables Challenge with the Crunchy Domestic Goddess is still going on so let’s all keep up the no-waste work!