Yep! By the look of the blog, you’ve guessed it! We are getting solar!
- State Farm car insurance cards (laminated paper).
- Five tiny paint rollers and masking tape from a fall paint project (stripes in living room)
- An 5-year old plastic toothbrush that I have used/worn-out for cleaning grout.
- Packaging of home repair/ electrical items
- Plastic cork wrapper of some wine bottles
- Photo (from a birthday party invitation)
- Backing of postal stamps
- Plastic sealers from Scott’s contact lens solution
- Couple of itchy clothes tags
- Plastic tie from a pair of shoes
- Plastic hanging straps from a dress
- Plastic casing from Romex wire used in an electrical repair
- Scotch tape bits
- Plastic”size” strip from a new pair of jeans
- Plastic warning tag from an electrical cord
- Plastic wrap from a friend’s leftover dish (could not refuse her generous lasagna gift, am weak!)
- Plastic price tag ties from clothes
- Some fruit stickers (from occasionally missing the farmer’s market, where I can avoid them)
- Few bubble gums from guests
- Tiny other things that do not really have names 😉 The bulk of it being soft plastics from home maintenance.
As with our previous tally (which Sunset took away in October last year), the jar obviously does not include the “active discards” of the few things that I have sent back to manufacturers with a suggestion letter, or the occasional candy wrappers (including 10 from last year’s Halloween) that people have given our kids and I have sent to Terra Cycle (TerraCycle, Inc, Attn: Candy Wrapper Brigade, 121 New York Ave, Trenton, NJ 08638).
We had heard that solar had dramatically dropped in price, and so with our finances in recovery, we took estimates from two different providers last month. Both considered our current and future energy consumption, our finances and space available for the panels. One of them repeatedly mentioned the “free” included Ipad2 as a sales pitch, the other offered a better financial deal given our parameters. Guess which one we chose? Refuse, Refuse, Refuse. Shopping is voting. And I love it when my refusal is rewarded by financial savings from choosing the opposing option.