Living The Green Life

I love living a green lifestyle. I love when I pull out my reusable bags at the grocery store. I love seeing the plants in my apartment grow from seed to plant in what seems like a blink of eye. I love buying fresh, locally grown food. I love donating old things instead of just tossing them in a landfill. I love when my recycling is bigger than my trash because it means I am choosing better products to fill my life with.

Now that sounds like a whole lot of perfect doesn't it? It does to me. Am I perfect all the time? No. I forget my bags at the store a lot. Who thinks of bringing them when going to home goods stores, or the comic book store? I always forget. I don't have a compost pile because I live in an apartment and just isn't accessible to me. Could I make it so? Yes, will I? Probably not. I still buy water bottles and most of the time my recycling is full of them instead of using the filtered water we have in our fridge. My point is I am trying but I am still making a lot of mistakes. I would love a small house in the middle of this vast land filled with animals and crops and just wild land that I can explore. Am I ready for it? No. I want to be fully self sustaining and have no garbage output. I am a long way off from that but I am trying.

Life is about trying and making mistakes. Today while I looked at a plant covered in aphids because I forgot to pay close enough attention to it made me realize this. I felt its tug saying I need attention for a while, but ignored it because of other life things. Now I have it sitting in the rain hoping it heals. I really hope it does. But if it doesn't it is a lesson learned the hard way again.

One Project Done

I have officially completed one project of Operation Get Rid of Stuff, aka, clean house. It feels so great! Last night M and I went through the last of the books and now have about 3.5 book shelves full of books instead of the 6 before. Huge difference. Now we have things that matter to us on display on the bookshelves in our dining room and it makes the whole living space feel more like us.

Tonight we are going to sell a few bags of them and then try to sell the rest this weekend when we have more time. We have a lot of books to sell and I don't think they will all fit in my Bug. So tonight is stage one and this weekend will be stage two.

It is great having all this extra space and every time I get rid of something I feel a little bit more like I own my stuff instead of the other way around. I have done a few more projects around the house but the books were by far the biggest accomplishment.

All the money we get from the books will go into our savings for buying our own little plot of land. Homesteading is just one step closer.