2014 The Year of Reduce - that is the Challenge

On PEI and elsewhere the 3 R's are often recited but rarely fully practised.  The recycling part, well we are all getting there...since it is pretty well mandated that we do so by law in many ways.  The reuse one might get some practise with the number of re-stores around from Value Village or Goodwills for my USA friends and of course we have all been doing the 'yard sale' thing since we were born!

So 2014 to me should be the Year of Reduce: 

Reduce our spending - most will need to reduce their spending anyway with all the other increasing costs).Reduce our consumption - Food, we eat too much, Consumerism - we consume/buy too much, Electric - we waste so much and so on.Reduce our dependence on Stuff - we have too much, we are cluttering our lives, depleting our pocket books, and creating a sea of waste in the process.  Purge and cleanse of a different kind.


This the challenge for 2014 try to do one of more of these things: This year the challenge is to reduce - even if you do one thing you will make a difference.  Get a group together and start to chart your progress.  Will you start a budget? Will you carefully examine every purchase- buy a quality product from a local retail store rather than multiple items you will replace over and over in short order? Will you reduce your shopping trips, look at replacing your CFL bulbs with LED or do an energy review of your home...do you 'need' three TVs in your house? Do you really have 'no space' or is it an illusion and really you have 'too much stuff'.... Purge, clean, examine your spending and your waste and see how you can REDUCE your spending, consumption and stuff in 2014.