A New Game

My household has a new game: "Can we fill it to the lid in two weeks?"

In the words of Bob The Builder (and now Barack Obama)
"YES WE CAN!"

I love... LOVE our new recycling receptacle. My family is going around the house looking for things to put in it every day. It has gone way beyond the standard milk jugs, food cans, paper and cardboard. We are super recyclers now! Toilet paper and paper towel tubes, aluminum foil (no major food sticking to it of course), shaving cream cans, junk mail, all loose paper, and checking every bit of plastic for a #1 or #2. I even noticed that the plastic on the Q-Tip container was #2. Ripped the plastic away from the cardboard... dumped 'em both in. Score!

Taking the garbage down to the street tonight... how easy is it to wheel two carts down the driveway in one trip? A lot easier than making the two trips for the recycle containers (we had one for papers and cardboard, and one for bottles & cans), and then wheeling the garbage container to the street. Oh... and I noticed that our garbage can was the lightest it has ever been.

So once again... a big THANK YOU to Mark Carlino and the Manchester Sanitation Department for bringing this idea to fruition. We love our new blue bin! I think the garbage bins are green with envy.

"In Search of Dignity"

"The old dignity code has not survived modern life. The costs of its demise are there for all to see. Every week there are new scandals featuring people who simply do not know how to act."

In Search of Dignity - David Brooks, NY Times

If more people in the public eye had a sense of dignity, what would our scandal-mongering press have to cover? There are so many things going on in the world today... but what is going to get the coverage? Michael Jackson's funeral.