Goal number two is to not take out the trash for a month. Goal number one was to get down to one bag per week. The biggest hurdle to goal number two has been smell, but I figured out that carefully rinsing potentially smelly items prior to putting them in the trash solved the problem pretty fast. I last took out the trash on October 28, and today is November 18, so we are in the final ten-day stretch to meeting goal number two. Things look very promising.
There has been one painful setback, but I don't think it will prove fatal. I got the flu and forgot to call the diaper service to ask for four more weeks' worth of compostable diapers. Fortunately, I am no longer sick, and the diapers will arrive on Wednesday. We have three compostable diapers left to get through maybe half of Monday, but the second half of Monday and Tuesday loom large. So, I sent Sergio to the store tonight to get a small package of regular disposable diapers to get us through until Wednesday. Gulp.
Are we terrible people? I don't think so. But, this small setback made me realize how bad I have come to feel about generating trash in cases where I know we can avoid it. The last time we thought we were going to get close to the month mark, the trash filled up at just past two weeks and we took it out and restarted our count. But this time, even with a few diapers headed to the trash, I still smell victory.
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