#myoverconsumption

In the mean time, this video has been helpful with perspective.   

I hope we make amends. I feel like returning this book is my only chance to do this.  

I threw these padded postage bags out today. I usually collect them as I use them quite a lot. I keep all of my portable hard drives in their own individual padded bag for a bit of extra protection for when I transport them around the house. I also use them to house camera gear. If I decide not to use my camera bag and use my ordinary handbag, I’ll put whatever camera I’m using in one of these before it goes in my handbag. These are extras/awkward in size for anything I have so out they go.

Even though I didn’t get rid of 30 things in 30 days, I still got rid of thirty things. This jacket sold on eBay today. I remember I purchased it a while ago while it was on sale. I never loved it and I only really used it to store one $20 note which I would occasionally dig out in emergencies. I always replaced it once I spent it. And now I am going to have to find somewhere else to stash my emergency $20 note. 

Scented lotions. I snagged these from an air bnb that I was cleaning. The owner of the air bnb travels a lot and has a hoard of hotel toiletries stocked in baskets in the bathroom of the house. I was using them but have recently been put off after learning scented lotions aren’t all that good for you.

It’s nice that they give out reusable bags instead of plastic ones but there’s only so many reusable bags one can use! This came with an online order. If it were in-store of course I would have refused the bag. 

Old film photography notes and packaging. 

At my work, when the Hallmark stock gets refreshed the old stock gets thrown into the compactor. These cards didn’t quite make it into the compactor as I found them on the floor so I collected them and took them home. I had realised I have been holding onto them for a few years now as there hasn’t been an appropriate opportunity for me to use these so out they go. It’s always the free stuff that we collect that we never really seem to need.