After making my ONE resolution for the year to be organized in every area of life, I had some things leftover that didn’t quite fit into that category. So I came up with some challenges for the year.

For one of the first challenges, I want to go one day every week trash-free. I first tried a version of this when school started. I was going to send the kids lunch once a week without any trash.. with the exception of natural food trash of course. I thought it would be sort of easy since we already mostly used re-usable lunchboxes and containers. I was wrong. I packed their lunch, and realized that Emma’s brand new lunchbox wouldn’t hold all the containers. I ordered some really cool fabric baggies. They never came in, and my $10.00 was spent. More importantly, I couldn’t write their daily “I love you” on their napkins. So, I put that idea aside for a while.

I’m ready to revisit this challenge with our whole family. I realize I will have to be a little better prepared, but I’m really excited about what this might teach us. In thinking this through I’m already becoming more aware of how much trash we produce in this house. I’m going to try to be very strict at first, but there is no way I’m giving up my toiletries!

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