Reducing and Reusing the right way....

I believe in "reducing and reusing"....the last thing we should be looking at is recycling.  I am the women you see at the check-out counter taking all her excessive packaging of her purchases and handing it back to the store.  As a business you have the opportunity to directly address the excessive packaging problem to the manufacturer, where when I address the issue in writing all that happens is my ends up in the junk mail slot or the recycling basket.  My mother was visiting last week and she brought a plastic container of croissants ( clam shell ), well instead of put the plastic container in my invisible recycling bin...I used it to pack her sandwich, cookies and fruit so, when she stopped for lunch on her way home it was not squished.  I reused it....if I had purchased the croissants the package would have been left at the check out counter. 

I have become the crazy vegetable lady at our local Save-on-Food Store because I refuse to accept the poor quality of the produce that they try to flog off on my community, as a consumer I demand quality over quantity!!!  Perhaps it is my up European up bringing, where you buy something of good quality and if looked after will last years to come.

In all aspects of our lives we could do with a little of this philosophy...so Petty Catwater Garden Stand has found away to reuse all those mason jars you have purchased with delicious jams, salsas, and compotes in.  I have a few of these items myself and after quality testing the product, I believe it has value and durability that will last for years. I went online this morning and hit the purchase button. 

 

 

There are many ways to use the dip cup add-ons....fill it with a dip for veggies or yogurt to your cereal. The storage cup in a jar can be used in so many ways...chips and salsa, a sewing kit thread on the bottom and needles in the top, it would be great for my camera cables and batteries.  Turn the Dilly Bean Jar into a travel mug...I use my mason jar "sippy cup" in the garden in summer, I have saved myself a few dollars and many wine glasses...laughing.  Hey and for all of you who have ever played midnight croquet they make a cocktail one, with a straw. I switched out my straw for a glow in the dark one found at the dollar store...flashlight, oh and you never lose your drink!!!!

 

 

Grow, Harvest, Cook, Eat, Reduce, Reuse

 

Jenn