{"id":1007,"date":"2017-07-16T18:39:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2017-07-16T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:39:29","slug":"how-many-do-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"How Many Do We Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an episode of Dick Van Dyck in which someone offered Rob (the dad)\u00a0a big stuffed bunny leftover from a TV sketch at work.\u00a0 They said \u201cTake this home for your son, Rob\u201d and his response was \u201cno thanks, he already has one.\u201d One?! One.\u00a0 Wow. In this day and age, who has one of anything? We have several boxes full of stuffed animals that we just can\u2019t part with.\u00a0 And likely half a dozen of them are bunny-shaped.<\/p>\n<p>And I realized this may well be our ONE biggest problem.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many times I have had to refuse a speaker gift of a really nice water bottle.\u00a0 I have a water bottle.\u00a0 It works great and I don\u2019t need another.\u00a0 How many times have I been at a conference and received pens, thumbdrives, squeeze balls, keychains\u2026you name it? It takes a great effort to say \u201cno, thank you, I\u2019m all set\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We often find ourselves in the strange position of needing to explain that we have to plan our travel and social engagements as we have only one car. People just assume we have two.\u00a0 Now we do have three kayaks (there are three of us) and three bikes, well, one of us is\u00a0in transaction and is figuring out if he will keep one of the two old bikes he has been given or if he will find a new, properly sized one.\u00a0 But you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we need to collect more of any one useful thing?\u00a0 This comes into play for toys and sketch books (yes, I am scolding myself) and re-usable bags as well. This ties into shoes and purses and winter coats. I have one winter coat for every day (eight years old), one from Sweden that I bought when I was 22 and one for hiking. I swear I am not cheap, I just don\u2019t see the need for another, and the ones I have are in good repair and still fit fine. I do understand that fashions change, but I will state that fashions change for a purpose, and that is to get people to buy new\u201d things they already have. It\u2019s a bit of a scam.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One part of being sustainable is maybe looking for classic looks (or looks that look great on you) that never go out of style.<\/li>\n<li>One part of being sustainable is knowing that one good spatula can be washed if you need to reuse it, and maybe you don\u2019t need several\u2026or maybe knowing if you do.<\/li>\n<li>One part of being sustainable is buying durable goods that will serve for a long time. They\u00a0may not be the flash in the pan \u201cit\u201d entity of any particular moment, but they will be useful, valuable, and appropriate for a long while.<\/li>\n<li>One part of being sustainable is maybe waiting for everyone else to buy the toy of the year, knowing that playing with it for a week does not justify owning yet another thing.<\/li>\n<li>One part of being sustainable may well be in-the-moment actions and experiences, rather than another stuffed bunny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share a hug,<\/p>\n<p>Jodi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an episode of Dick Van Dyck in which someone offered Rob (the dad)\u00a0a big stuffed bunny leftover from a TV sketch at work.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,7],"tags":[49,45],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-commentary","category-recycling","category-personal-reflections","tag-living","tag-trash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/van-Dyck.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40KlT-gf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3987,"url":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=3987","url_meta":{"origin":1007,"position":0},"title":"Bottlemania, a Book Review (B2C)","author":"greenerjsa","date":"September 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings, all. 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