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Breaking the habit
Sep. 13th, 2012 08:52 pmEverything has two sides.
When I was a kid, we saved... nearly everything. If a package could be reused, chances were high it would be. Clothes were handed round, not thrown out until they were worn past the woof. If you couldn't think of three different uses for an item, it wasn't worth getting. And you never threw away something you could use again.
This can be called 'prudent'. It can also be called 'incipient hoarding behaviour'.
I have just thrown out a full green bag of 30-150mL bottles, on the grounds that a) saving something you know you're never going to use is, at best, silly; and b) if I get rid of these things now, maybe I'll be able to start breaking the cycle.
Fingers crossed, at any rate.
When I was a kid, we saved... nearly everything. If a package could be reused, chances were high it would be. Clothes were handed round, not thrown out until they were worn past the woof. If you couldn't think of three different uses for an item, it wasn't worth getting. And you never threw away something you could use again.
This can be called 'prudent'. It can also be called 'incipient hoarding behaviour'.
I have just thrown out a full green bag of 30-150mL bottles, on the grounds that a) saving something you know you're never going to use is, at best, silly; and b) if I get rid of these things now, maybe I'll be able to start breaking the cycle.
Fingers crossed, at any rate.
