Green is a beautiful color...

I love to throw things out.  It makes my insanely euphoric to dump papers, whatnots, crappy toys, junk mail and all things that land on my kitchen counter....out, out, out.  As a matter of fact, I can count at least four times I have had to don the rubber gloves and pick through the trash for that oh so important paper that one of my kids had to have signed by me, or completed for the next day, or was vital to soverignity of our nation....whatever, you get the drift.  My children don't ask me if something is lost or misplaced....they glare at me with those eyes and say "mum, did you THROW it out???"  My answer 9 out of 10 times is....yup.  

So in this vain, dump day is my happiest day of the week.  Weeeee, it's Friday!  Time to load up the car and dump all that useless crap that floats around the house all week and causes me to have panic attacks.  (I am neatfreak....see previous blog for more information).  I friggin LOVE the dump.  Oh, how invigorating it is to heave those laden bags of trash into the giant pit!!!    Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I am FREE at last!

So, one day Flossy got on my case about the amount of trash I dumped and my complete lack of recycling.  She was adamant about saving our planet, and I was, ......well, not.  (Let us please note that I do recycle my cardboard boxes and daily newspaper but that was about it.)    She would screech at me.....What about the plastic water/milk bottles, the bottles of Pellegrino Mr. Fitfreak downs, or my fav Fresca cans???    "Too much of a pain",  I said.  "Get a conscience!", she said.    

Fine, fine, FINE!  Guilt usually works with me.  So off I go to purchase a laundry basket for plastics and a bin for the bottles.  I was quite sure that there would be little to throw in to each bin and the whole damn effort would be a complete and total waste of my time.  WRONG!  I am amazed and PROUD to report that this family of 5 has gone from 6-7 full trash bags a week to 2-3!!!!  The recycling bins for bottles, cans, plastic and newspaper/boxes/paper are FULL every week!  I was completely and totally shocked!  I really and truly didn't think we used that much stuff that could be recycled.  

Now I am even more pumped for the dump.  I swing my two bags of trash into the pit and hop, skip and jump over to the recycling area.  Like a recycling fairy, I dump my bins into the appropriate areas and leave with a great feeling of doing something right!  Mr. Fitfreak thinks it is all silly, and whatnot.  But here is my attitude, no matter what you believe about global warming or the environment.....isn't it worth it to make even a tiny effort to do something that can help???  My tiny effort equaled into four less bags of trash being burned and polluting the air each week.  Thanks Flossy!