I just finished separating the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle into two piles of equal height. The sections I read, and the other stuff, what I will not read. In the ‘will not read pile’ are mostly ad booklets for various advertisers. In France, the Sunday papers are a tenth of the size of their American counterparts. As far as I know, French newspapers are still making money. My question to the American newspapers is this: why do you need to use so much paper? why do you need to have so many sections? why do advertisers need to take so much space? can’t you start working with advertisers to reduce all that waste of paper? I know we live in the land of ‘bigger is better’, but in this case, bigger is clearly worse. And I am a passive accomplice, as long as I keep on subscribing to the stuff.
To-do-list: 1) stop subscribing to paper version of newspaper; 2) even better, start public dialog on issue, boycott.
when we got the dog last year they told us to get the convenient poop bags – they were city folks – you pick up the excrement it’s the law,
we are in essence apartment living dog owners who don’t have access to our yard as we don’t own it — so we too must pick up accordingly.
well a 70 lb dog is rather – well prodigoious with her pooping and those bags are darn pricey – - the bags say biodegradable but by who’ s standards — and in my lifetime??
fast forward to tough times here and money is tighter than I care to say – almost out of blue plastic poop bags, not
“enough” target bags to manage a 3 times a day 7 days a week plus pooper, not to mention the target shopping has completely stopped except for TP – i admit that the plastic poop bags make the whole thing rather simplified but I had to get creative —soon. I was going to be out of bags
i stopped the sunday paper in 1996 – I read too little of it to warrant giving so much to the recycling bucket – i wasn’t as concern they about the environment then, but felt it was a waste to even buy it for a few sections. I did start walking after that on sunday to the library and read my sections there – that felt so much better for the environment and my feet — i now do that with magazines
I was getting 2 local papers and used them alot for business leads. Justifyably I was getting a good value from rec’ving that one at my door. I had cut it down to one simply to reduce yet another expense
when I was throwing the paper into recyclying recently I thought wait – this paper is sized perfectly to use for dog poop retrieval instead of those expensive blue bags!!
For two weeks I have now been using the newspaper instead and I am so pleased that I can reuse them in such a useful way
it’s so funny that when i think about poop, that I think of you, but your one post on that so cracked me up —to flush or not to flush
I think the newpaper thing is going to work
I also think that having this huge shift in finances and getting a bit afraid — is sharpening my skills to use what I have and get resourceful
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Once, long time ago, the newspapers had their place in the world, and the educated people truly had something to look foreward in the morning. Now, nothing but monkey-business (quite literary so). The newspapers are a pointless brain-killing virus. Another tragic turn for the worse…