Will You Be My Valentine, Mother Earth?

Finally, a screen shot of the personalized "eco audit" provided by SPUD grocery delivery! We receive one with every order we make.

We the Tiny House People

I have to be honest: we've been feeling a little crowded in our tiny house lately.  We were starting to fantasize about something a little bigger--not much, you know, just, oh, say, 900 square feet or so.  Really, nothing terribly immodest.

Wait!

We like having a tiny condo, right?

Yes, we do.  But we needed a reminder, some re-inspiration.  So we watched Kirsten Dirksen's documentary We the Tiny House People, available on YouTube:

We the Tiny House People

This film is just over an hour long and served to reinvigorate our small space sensibilities.  If I were to make one criticism of it, I'd point out the irony that she, who totes her husband and two kids along throughout the making of the film, only documents single people and couples living in small dwellings.  Where are the families, Kirsten?  We can do it, too!

The Horror

Well, we aren't on zero waste hiatus exactly, but we are cutting ourselves some slack for a couple of months.  Our beautiful baby has arrived, and his adorable little bottom isn't quite big enough for the smallest size of compostable diapers, nor is he quite ready for cloth ones.  Ruby wore cloth diapers starting at three months, and it looks like Romeo will probably be big enough around the same time.  And, I'm guessing he will fit well in the compostables at that time, too. So, in the meantime, this is what our trash looks like:

Oh, the horror!  As you can sort of see, it's just a bunch of disposable diapers.  We have to take the trash out a couple of times a week now.  Fortunately, we've done such a good job reducing our trash in other regards that it really is almost exclusively diapers we are condemning to the landfill in this twice-weekly transgression, but it still feels terrible.  On the other hand, having Romeo in the family feels wonderful, so I guess reducing waste isn't the only important thing after all.