I get teased pretty often about my use of paper towels, or should I say lack of use? Over the last year I might have used almost 4 or 5 rolls and 3 of them were in the first part of the year. I don’t have any now. When people come over to eat and I did have paper towels, I would tear them into smaller pieces. Now I use cloth napkins. I clean my house with dish towels, not paper towels. If I’m out somewhere and I get extra napkins that I know will be throw away, I take them home. I might go a little toward the extreme side of things, but there are ways to cut down on disposable paper products, ways that aren’t difficult or time consuming.
When I cleaned out my garage a couple of months ago, I found an individually wrapped paper towel. I keep this in my (minimalist) junk drawer. It freaks people out that I would even have something like this. I don’t know where it came from, but I make jokes about it being my emergency paper towel.
There are so many ways to be intentional about saving money and helping the environment without having to make radical changes in our habits. It’s just that, being intentional about it. And just so you know that I do have a ‘line’ that I won’t cross, I didn’t pick this up. It crossed my mind, not my line.
