I highly recommend The CompleteTightwad Gazette. I've read it over and over again to give me
some sort of hope. I'm not as tight as I could be, but I'm doing what
I can to conserve. Take water for instance. I have a garden every
year, and I use my bathwater to water the garden. Yes, it takes a few
minutes, and some muscles, but I find I water every plant
individually, and no water goes in between plants. I also collect
rainwater. During the drought of 2012, I was able to keep my garden
watered and my water bill manageable. Once a week, I give the garden
a good watering with the hose. I don't keep track of how much I save,
but I know it makes a difference. My water bill is rarely more than
$60, unless I skip paying it for some reason.
I also rinse out baggies and reuse
them.
The Complete Tightwad Gazette
has success stories from people, which are inspiring. America is a
wasteful country (if you work retail, you see it firsthand) and it's
enough to make me want to go dumpster diving. I think I would, if I
had a pickup truck. I saw a five foot long vanity being thrown out
because of a dark knot in the wood on the door of the cabinet. It
could have been painted over, or just sanded and stained, but no. A
perfectly good vanity was thrown out. It could have been donated, but
the powers that be didn't want to bother.
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