Our no-new-plastic pantry

Nothing goes to waste in the Rummel/Parker (soon to just be Rummel) household. Well, actually not ‘nothing’, we do take the trash out from our one 8-gallon trash can about every four to six weeks. This is pretty major for me, because I used to have to empty a larger trash can than that far more regularly. So how have we reduced our contributions to landfills by so much? Well, I believe the biggest factor has been buying food and other products with far less or no packaging. And anything that we do get that has some packaging must be [Continue Reading...]

Remember Your Reusable Bags

The other day Melanie and I got out of the car at the grocery store and we realized we had left our reusable bags at home. So we opted to to just come back later when we had our bags. When we got home we found the bags hanging on our front door doorknob. We were in such a rush that we missed the huge collection of bags we probably had to push to the side to get out the door. Well sometimes stuff like this just happens, but here are two tips that have helped us be sure we always [Continue Reading...]

How to Make Your Own Produce Bags

Hello everyone! Mark and I have been talking about alternatives for plastic produce bags in the grocery store for several months.  We’ve been bringing reusable bags to carry our groceries out to the car, but still ended up with a wad of plastic from our fresh produce.  We know buying packaged cloth bags is one option, but that means buying more “stuff”, and we are more interested in finding ways to inventively use all the stuff we already have.  About a week ago, we scoured around in Mark’s grandfather’s storage area and found a huge bin of family linens.  Cloth napkins, [Continue Reading...]

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