Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Part 1
It's been a while now that we (or at least I) have been on a journey of learning to reduce, reuse and recycle. I've always loved old things and I'm pretty thrifty so it's not been
difficult trying to reduce and reuse. Recycling on the other hand is
not something I was raised to do. But even that, we've recently
started to do. This is all in our efforts to keep things simple and
learning to be content with what we have. Also we believe in caring
for creation through not consuming more than we need and reducing the
trash that is filling up our limited landfills. Another thing that
we've been doing is also growing our own food using the limited space
we have. Oh... and composting, hopefully that works, we just started. Ok... where to start? Let's start with REDUCE. Haha, it helps when we have limited budget to start with. We try not
to buy things. It's REALLY hard. We try. We're not very successful
here but we do keep to just buying books and clothes when necessary.
We use the library a lot so we only buy the classics and some popular
culture books that we like. And since we've been here, I think we've
bought clothes only at the start of every season. The kids do grow out
of their clothes pretty quickly and I do like shopping lah. Since
moving twice in the past couple of years, we have junked a lot of our
things and kept it simple. All we own are in the 2 bedroom apt we live
in now and also stored in one bedroom in James' parents' house. Yep
that's about it, I think. Ok truth is, the shopping culture growing up in Singapore in deeply
deeply ENTRENCHED in me. What do we do when we have nothing to do?
Shop right? Seriously, even living in the countryside in NZ the past 2
years, has not purged the consumerism out of me completely! Eeeks. On
the weekends, we used to love to go into Warehouse (like K-Mart) and
look for little things to buy or even look see look see. Ah... so hard
so hard. But we're going to try. A family of 4 doesn't need that much money to
live on as we have discovered esp if we reduce, reuse and recycle. :)












































