One Month Anniversary

We did it!  We went a whole month without taking out the trash.  At the end of the month, here's what we had generated:

Let's look inside:

What do we have here?  At least what's visible from the top includes...

1. A dog food bag (curse you, plastic liner!)
2. A yogurt wrapper (yes, we have a machine.  I am going through a paranoid pregnancy phase and not making it from home, "just in case"...whatever that means).
3. A popsicle wrapper (from when I got the stomach flu.  Yuck, bad memory).
5. A worn-out sock.

In actuality, not taking out the trash for a month was not too hard.  We have made incremental changes, and bit by bit, are producing less and less waste.  However, there was one surprising down side to not taking out the trash for a month:

Fruit fly invasion!  No good.  We fashioned this vinegar contraption to catch them, and it has worked wonders.  Sergio suggested that we take out a really, really small bag of trash once a week to avoid this problem.  It's probably the best solution.  Part of me wants to be able to walk around saying, "I haven't had to take out the trash all month!" Somehow the words, "I take out a very small bag of trash once a week," sound less like a badge of honor.  But, I know the important part is not generating a lot of trash, and no matter how you slice it, we're on the right track.