- Ah, no people being nice to me this week
is just not working in my favor.
So that was a bit weird.
But can pretty things not come in plastic?
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This week I'm challenging myself
to fit all my trash in this pasta jar.
Going from three bags to zero is a lot.
Honestly after taking a look at the trash
I'm kind of scared about this week,
just because I know I tend to create a lot more trash
than what I just showed you.
So I'm doing this because I wanna be an environmental queen.
And I saw that there's like a island patch land thing
in the ocean about trash
and I felt so weird.
So I was like, mm, I probably contributed to that
so maybe I should not, you know.
I know the first thing that's going to go in this jar
is going to be ear buds.
And that's because I have a piercing
so I have to clean it out.
And sometimes it bleeds, which is fun.
I did find a reusable ear bud,
that, you know you could use if you normally use ear buds
but my ear is infected
so we're gonna go to the doctor for that.
But other than that, there's so many things you can do
that's like zero waste alternatives,
and I'm gonna try some of them this week
to help me out with like the amount of trash I create.
So recently, one of my favorite things to do
after work is to have my little after work snack
like an afterschool snack, a treat.
Although I love my afterschool snack, it creates rubbish
so no.
So I bought these zero waste toothpaste tablets.
All you have to do is chew them
and brush your teeth with them.
Really skeptical cause like
I don't like dry things in my mouth.
So that was a bit weird.
That is definitely not the same thing as toothpaste,
tasted like toothpaste,
but just the like initial making it wet
with like your saliva or water just feels weird.
Definitely something I need to get used to.
Not something I'm gonna like doing.
- Today's been a pretty chill day on the trash front.
And then I realize I got my period which isn't fun
and makes me grumpy all the time, but fine.
You know, I use reusable pads.
It works.
I decided to moisturize,
which I do like once in three months
and there's barely anything left.
I will finish this now.
It doesn't say that I can recycle this box
so I have to put it in my trash jar
but my trash jar is smaller than this
so I don't know what to do.
Turns out the Bulk Food Store closest to me
doesn't have like lotion
that I can put in my little container,
but maybe I can make some
but that has to be a weekend project, not today.
So Possible isn't really helping me out
with this challenge because I ordered a couple packages.
Maybe I can use this bag again.
It's got one big hole here and one hole here
but I could just tape it up.
Another package I ordered last week and it's eyeliner
and I knew it would come in a plastic bag.
But what I didn't realize is
that each of these individual colors
is also like wrapped in its own plastic.
So now all of that has to go into my jar.
I want pretty things,
but like can pretty things not come in plastic?
I didn't realize they gave me
like this little like cookie thing,
like all of this plastic, waste.
Also for my one freaking trip to the mall, I was hungry
and I ended up getting some Vietnamese rolls.
Great, yummy, so good.
But like the sauces come in plastic.
I can recycle the box, but not that.
I've learned a very important lesson
and now I will never forget to take my container
and utensils with me.
It will live in my bag forever.
Okay, it's like six in the morning
and today's a big shoot day at work.
And in order to go to the shoot, we need to do rapids.
Here's my test.
I'm just gonna finish it soon.
But I realized all of it is going to be trash.
I'm negative, woo.
Okay, it's crunch time.
I'm going out in an hour and I wanna shave my legs.
So I ran to Woolies, couldn't buy waxing strips
couldn't buy normal razors
because they all come in plastic things.
But what I did find was a safety razor
and like little blades for it.
Both of these packages recyclable,
which is great we love that.
To be completely honest, I'm kind of scared to use them.
Oh my God, that razor was so incredibly smooth.
That's something I'm going to be like doing
for the rest of my life.
Even with like a normal razor,
I haven't felt this amount of love.
The only analogy I really have to explain why it's so good
is that when you have a dull knife that you're cooking with,
you probably cut yourself more
because you're putting more pressure.
But when you have a sharp knife
you don't have to put that much pressure
and it's just easier.
This was just easier.
Ah, no people being nice to me this week
is just not working in my favor.
So in my house we have this thing
where if we put it in the share area, everyone can eat it.
So people use up stuff and things don't go bad.
And today guess what I found in the share area,
a whole thing of Ferrero Rocher.
(babbling)
Ferrero Rocher.
These, amazing chocolates.
Like mwaah.
I, without thinking just like started eating four of them.
And then I was like wait, this is trash.
This is filling up my jar.
Oh, also another thing happened.
I got a Myer gift card.
Like yay me, I got $50 and I get to use that,
but mm it's going in the trash,
but yay I get to do some shopping.
Okay so today's going to be a fun day.
I'm going to go to the Bulk Food Store
so I can get some ingredients to make something
to put in my little lotion box that doesn't fit in my jar.
Going to the Bulk Food Store was great.
There's so many things you can get there.
I got my cocoa butter.
The recipe seems pretty easy, but let's see how it goes.
If I fail miserably or if it works.
Three parts of cocoa butter, one part of coconut oil
and you whip them together and you get body butter.
Pretty simple.
Why haven't I done this before?
It turned out amazing.
Look at that, so buttery, so soft.
Oh, so creamy.
I'm gonna love that.
I just have to make a bigger batch.
Today is a big day because today I meal prep.
Thankfully I already had enough food
to cook my meals for the next week.
But some of it does have plastic.
Some of it can be recycled.
Hopefully I can just shove it in, you know?
Oh also does this happen to anybody else?
Where like you're on your period, it ends,
ladidadida, it's ended.
And then bam, it's there again.
I was at the grocery store
and didn't have any reusable pads with me
so this goes in jar.
So many things going in jar today.
I'm so scared.
(drum rolls)
- This is my jar.
This is all my trash in a week.
It doesn't close properly
cause there's a spoon sticking out, but that's okay.
We made it to the end.
What all of this taught me is that it's very doable.
The only thing is you need to prepare.
So maybe like take on a little section of your life
and work that part out.
Come on, come on.
Beauty blogger, influencer.
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