I’ve got some things around that are quite trashy. I’m pretty pack ratty, as I’ve admitted before, but I think I am and can stay a far pace away from hoarding … but you never know.

I’ve got tea bag wrappers. No reason to save them, but they smell so nice. And I came up with a use for them. But not the time to use them in.

I’ve got old mailing envelopes. Some can be reused, some can’t. The “can’ts” can be reused in other ways, but I want to do more research on Tyvek before I get into it. I had hoped to have a nice long piece about Tyvek tonight, but I was thwarted by bad javascript. :( I understand DuPont wants to capture information about their users, but should I really have to fill out tons of personal information to read a PDF about the Tyvek life cycle? And I still don’t have the PDF. I’ll have to wait for a sales professional to call me.

Not sure why I’m still stuck in “Depression” mode, as in The Great. The news says the economy is picking up, but the news also failed to anticipate the crash. Maybe it’s less GD-save-twist-ties-and-bread-wrappers mode and more awareness of the general wastefullness of our lives and how to reduce it.

Part of it, I think, is that a local city is having a contest for ideas to generate revenue. Great, I’m full of good ideas, I submitted one for taxing plastic shopping bags. Then I did a search on all the words in the rules of the contest – they want to raise revenue without raising taxes. Um, duh. What are they thinking? Should I suggest we draw a circle on the ground, throw all the money up in the air, and whatever the city wants, it keeps?

My friends who are voting (and not eligible but talking about) on the Seattle “bag tax” pointed out that they use those bags for every day garbage. Most of them cloth diapered, or have kids out of diapers, and don’t really create a lot of garbage. For them, it would be the loss of garbage bags, free garbage bags … but on the other hand, we’ve been paying for them all along – we’re just noticing it more.

I guess I’m just all over the place tonight. I’ll try for coherent in the morning. Anyone got any creative reuses for “trash” to share?

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