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What better time to talk about sustainability than two weeks before the New Year. Now, I know I'm what must might call bat shit crazy, or an enthusiastic eccentric maybe but I do think that as the higher thinking species of a rather unique planet in the so far known universe that we could all take a little responsibility for how we live, and instead of living in a complete dump, live in a temporary paradise. But again, this is from the perspective of a person who doesn't buy the whole karmic wheel or everlasting eternity bits.

Anyway, my life has been slowly orienting to one where I am looking at making my lifestyle a more sustainable one. Unfortunately, my life is unstable so I apartment hop still. Which I only find unfortunate for me. I like to daydream about owning orchards and having rolling lawns, chickens, goats, perhaps a couple alpaca... Despite the crazy expensive fiber animals, the daydream is potentially doable, so long as I can find land and a way to pay for it.

It has been a long journey and a lot of blog reading to work out the fact that I have truly gone crazy. I horde wine and beer bottles so that I can grind them into sea glass for mosaics, haven't made any yet, just horde the bottles. I've got a small plastic bottle collection reserved for a kayak skin, should I ever find the motivation to do it. There are three giant totes full of old clothes and fabric scraps that I fully intend to do, something, with. Cardboard is piled up in a corner waiting for me to transform it into cat towers and scratching toys, with wine corks sitting in a bowl just waiting to scurry across the floor and hide under couches, the refrigerator, behind the computer. And finally, the giant overflowing pile of kitchen stuff I need to look through and send to Goodwill.

While my horde is exacerbated, (it only takes up corners of the office currently) I need to find my motivation to actually do the stuff I'm planning. However, I always ask myself: “Then what will you do with all this new old stuff?” I could give it as gifts! “Who would want your old trash, literally?” There are plenty of people that pay money for recycled things.... And on and on.

Incredibly lazy, I may be, however, what will I do with all this stuff? When you are trying to go waste less, what do you do with all this upcycled stuff?