Thanks for following, Patty!! ;D Hugs to you both and all our FIT friends!

We love your recycled projects, Neese!! ;D So many great ideas to reuse, but I am waiting for the day to see USPS/FEDEX/UPS switch to reusable plastic totes for shipping as a way to reduce cardboard, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/weekend-musing-the-reusable-delivery-packaging-idea/. Might end up using the large flat boxes here as floor covering!! ;P xoxoxoci

Wow!! What an amazing story, Deb!! You are such an inspiration, and always so positive! 😀 I’ve heard of the French method, and it sounds so easy and practical. Our soil here is very hard with clay and hard to dig, but we really need to start working towards a good garden bed for next year. Thinking an auger like this might work to break through and let us start on turning the soil. http://amzn.to/2ajHpuO We’ll have to look for some little wormies here, but I remember digging night crawlers when I was a little girl in CO. 😉 This is all good stuff, and we hope to hear from you again soon!! Xoxoxoxo

We’re so happy you are reading, Andrea!! ;D Life is good here, and we hope to share more good and bad as time goes on. Lots of love to you in the tropics!! <3

You two are really roughing it. Wow.

Reading this post brought to mind a time in my life when I had very little garbage. I was running an organic veggie biz in the Keys that I called Veg Out. I drove to Miami once a week, visited the organic farms and csa’s and brought back loads of veggies to my customers in the Keys.

As a single mom with a 2 year old, that’s how I supported us for a couple years. Didn’t make much money. But we ate well, and I brought my toddler to work with me, saving hundreds of dollars a month on day care, while hanging out with my favorite little person.

Anyway, we ate all the leftovers. I made soup with most of the veggies. We just plain ate the fruit. And pretty much all of my trash was compost. Bananas come in their own wrappers, as do most fruits and veggies. And I was preparing my soil for the garden.

My French neighbor taught me French composting, which is so simple, I still do it, just on a much smaller scale now. You just dig a little hole where next year’s garden will be planted, and every day you toss in your scraps and cover it with a layer of dirt to keep the critters from smelling it, which comes from a new hole that gets a little deeper every day, right next to the current hole. I had a dedicated hand shovel. Get some worms and stick them in there too. They can find their way to the new hole when the time comes. Might be tough in the winter up there tho.

Have you considered a service like this, just until you get your garden going? https://www.farmboxdirect.com/ you’ll get a new cardboard box every week, but besides that, no trash.

Ha!! Good luck with the reprogramming, Candice, and thanks for the tip on the no-roll TP!! ;D We’re ready to re-stock, so I’ll look out for the Scott. Thank you so much for reading and commenting about this topic. It’s really amazing how much trash we generate in an average day with all the packaging and disposable items coming through our hands. I use hankies instead of tissue and cloth napkins/rags/hand towels instead of paper, but the foodstuff is overwhelming!! Shopping is becoming more of a ‘mission impossible’ when you stop to consider costs, nutrition labeling, and now packaging. I’ll be so happy to see our garden and smokehouse next year!! ;D
Miss you bunches!!!! Xoxoxo

Miss you guys!