I have always prided myself on being a frugal and thoughtful consumer, concerned about the ecological and ethical impacts of the products I buy. I pay that extra $10 a month to support green energy, use CFLs where I can, have low flow shower heads, bricks in the toilet tanks, buy earth and animal friendly cleaning products or make my own, wear my clothes until they're dead, line dry most often, use my dish and pasta water to water landscaping, shower every other day, have no ac, rarely use my gas in wall heater, bike or take public transport almost all of the time, drink tap water, buy local and organic foods to supplement those I grow in my garden, have reusable shopping bags, a reusable coffee cup, a reusable water bottle, save lidded plastic food packaging to store left overs of future meals and compost 100% of my food scraps.

....so what's with all this waste?

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Day 3: Commuter Cup Conundrum!

I didn't have my reusable cup this morning and REALLY wanted a coffee for the road.....so.....after learning that neither the Gelson's nor Oak's Gourmet Market on Franklin have commuter cups for sale.....

I totally caved! I bought a coffee: paper cup, plastic lid....all of it. Crap!

M. E. FRUGAL: Well, I guess I can reuse the cup as a seed pot, but the lid is just a single use item for the recycling bin.

M. E. REALIST: Now wait a minute...this is exactly how the laundry room got the be a clusterf #&k. WILLPOWER! Just don't buy it.

M. E. DEFLATED: The coffee didn't really taste good anyways. It was flavored with too much guilt. *sigh*

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