Eve O. Schaub's Blog, page 7
September 19, 2020
A Scandalous Post About Underwear. Packaging.
You might think, after writing for, say, eight plus months on a topic like “garbage,” you might run out of things to talk about. Well, no. In fact, there’s so much to write about, sometimes I feel kind of breathless. I have little piles all over my office of bizarre objects waiting for me to […]
September 16, 2020
Nobody Wants Your Potato Chip Bags Except Subaru and Mister Fezziwig
So. How on earth do you recycle a potato chip bag? You’d think there’d be more good ideas out there, given how all over the place potato chips are, but no. A website called ThriftyFun recommends using them to “bury your deceased pet parakeet, fish, gerbils or hamster.” But once you’ve said a fond farewell […]
September 3, 2020
A Car is Never Just A Car
Several weeks ago my beloved but well-worn Subaru had a nervous breakdown. Ever since I’ve been faced with choosing one of three options: For a princely sum, fix my car For a differently structured princely sum, trade my car in for an electric car OR Become a one-car household Ever since this realization sank in […]
August 24, 2020
Busy is a Four Letter Word
I’m guilty of this crime as much as anyone I know… but. You know what makes me crazy? When you ask people how they are and they say “Busy!” One reason it bothers me, I think, is because it says absolutely nothing. Saying you’re “busy” is another version of “I’m fine”: it pretends to be […]
August 18, 2020
Demystifying My Magical Washing Machine
Pods. You know them: those little packets that are supposed to save us from the arduous and soul-destroying task of having to actually measure liquid detergent. The horror. Lately quite a few ads have been trying to persuade me to change laundry detergent and use eco-friendly pods instead. But we are lucky, because in our […]
August 6, 2020
A Burning Question
Ever wonder where the wax goes when a candle burns? Or what the carbon footprint of a campfire is? How does that compare to the heating of your house? Are candles harmful? What about burning butter wrappers? Come to think of it, is burning anything okay? These are the rabbit holes I go down. Alice […]
July 29, 2020
A Horse Walks into a Recycling Center
Say, for the sake of argument that you plan to take your family on a waterskiing trip. You are excited. You do the planning, strategizing, packing and at last, you get everybody out there on the boat. Ready to take the first run of the day you look up from the water to gaze upon […]
July 22, 2020
On Banana Guilt and Other Wise Words
I inherited from my Dad an affinity for collecting quotes. He has long been known to randomly hand me, and other family members, what turns out to be a quotation typed up on a plain piece of paper, simply because he thought I’d appreciate it. It’s just a thing he does. So now that I’m […]
July 12, 2020
When No Garbage Went Camping
One of the great things about camping is that it is a relatively safe way to vacation during a pandemic and pretend for a few hours that the world isn’t currently behaving like a gasoline fire at a fireworks stand full of frogs. So this week we made a short camping trip up to the […]
July 2, 2020
Top 10 Things I Have Learned from 6 Months of No Garbage
This week is kind of a big milestone. We are officially ONE HALF of the way through our Year of No Garbage. We are very excited about it, and by this I mean that I am very excited about it. In honor of the occasion I have compiled a list of the… Top Ten Things […]
