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February Wrap-Up: The plastic bags have been officially ditched!

Many, many thanks to all of you who participated in this month's challenge to eliminate plastic bags from your homes.  Although it's a feat easier said than done, there are a lot of us who are making strides in this effort.  Sometimes this means that we still must use plastic bags in our daily shopping and errands, but we're finding ways of using those bags over and over again, keeping them from joining the landfill sites in our communities.

Happy Valentine's Day from Skeeda!

The good folks of Skeeda, makers of reusable shopping bags "for the hip, eco-chic shopper" are offering up a great deal in honour of Valentine's Day!

Visit www.skeeda.com and enter "customer" in the comment line when you check out. After they recieve your order, you will receive a 20% refund! It's their way of saying thanks for supporting them in their first year of business. Who needs chocolates and flowers when you can have a Skeeda!

The offer ends this Monday, February 18th, so visit them today to take advantage of their first ever online sale.

February's Challenge: Eliminate Plastic Bags!

"If you don't mind, I'll just take that by itself, without a bag."

I don't want to take a plastic bag home with me...another plastic bag to shove in the front hall closet, so I tell mostly teenage cashiers that if they don't mind, I'd prefer not to take one of their bags home with me.  I know that it's ridiculous to put it this way, and eventually I'll get better at telling them, "I don't want a plastic bag, thank you." I'll state it, just like that, instead of saying it in an apologetic tone.

Does this sound familiar to you at all?

I'm working on it...