wasteful me

I'm trying to reduce my "footprint." I didn't realize how much crap I produced until trying to go through a week without producing any. I'm thinking, also, that part of the reason we leave such a garbage trail behind us is that we really don't know how to do anything for ourselves anymore. There is the assumption that we know how to cook (to avoid take-out), know how to iron--!-- (to make our clothes last longer), know how to time-manage (to leave enough time to catch the bus in the morning, instead of last-minute driving. . . and to plan all our shopping far enough ahead that we have a ready stash of reusable bags to whip out of our pockets when we pick up dinner on the way home). Maybe learning how to do all this stuff (with the exception of cooking, which I can do) will be good not just for the environment, but for my mental health as well.