The Two Whos

If you are anything like Cece, you try to recycle your bags from the grocery store.  She has used her plastic bags for everything from cat litter to garbage can liners.  When the plastic bags pile up to uncontrollable levels, she puts them into a tissue box so they have a “dispenser!”  When the tissue boxes pile up, she switches to paper bags. When the paper bags pile up, she switches to…?  Hmmm, that might be the problem…

Over the weekend, she flipped her lid when all the plastic and paper bags oozed out of her closet and crawled onto the kitchen floor!  They took up 1/3 of her kitchen floor space!  She just looked at them and spells S H I T (yes, Cece IS a speller- curser!  Yun just learns how to spell.)  Did she pick them up?  NO!  Why? There is still 2/3 room to operate from!

So, the bags were kicked, and shuffled out of the way..pushed here…moved there… all weekend.  Finally, Sunday night, Cece and Yun finally connected after a weekend of phone tag.  Yun tells about sunset running and walking,  Cece tells about the bags.  Exciting life Cece has, right?

Monday morning, Cece is tired of the bags invasion.  At this point, self defense takes a higher priority.  She does not care about recycling…she just wants to ditch all these bags as fast as possible…which are now bags within bags. …they are morphing into aliens that are taking over her home!

Cece has had a goal for several years to use fabric bags.  This eliminates the clutter and pile up of the plastic and the paper bags and she is recycling!   But the problem is, she cannot remember to put the fabric bags in her car!  Now, she goes to her closet and removes all her fabric bags and puts them in front of her  front door along with her lunch.  NOW she knows she will not forget her bags!

Here is the next challenge.   Yun  bets  that Cece will  forget to bring the fabric bags into the store because Yun often forgets until she arrives at the  check out counter…but then does Yun curse?  Cece would curse.

Here is the thing.  People in this country are indeed so spoiled with the convenience of free plastic and paper bags.  In many other countries,  one has to pay additional cents to get store plastic bags.  If you had to pay 5 cents for a bag would you?

  It takes time to form a new habit, no matter how messy it might be,  it is worthy of the effort…

Tell us if you have been able to develop the habit of recycling  and how you did it.  Tell us  if you use fabric bags.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos