Hitting the Jackpot!
Shipping pottery and other clay items isn’t the most environmentally friendly endeavor. Bubble wrap and styrofoam peanuts are both used, along with double boxing items. It’s sort of the bane of my existence - a necessary evil.
With that in mind, I scour my neighborhood when walking my dogs for packing material and who knows what else I might be able to reuse. My neighbors must think I’m nuts! Last week one of them happened upon me leaning into one of the dumpsters, my behind in the air, dogs loosely held in one hand in the alley behind my house reaching for some perfectly clean bubble wrap that had been thrown away. Plastic gold is what I call it! I think I need to put a flyer out to all my neighbors reminding them that I collect and recycle bubble wrap and styro-foam peanuts.
It makes sense to reuse that stuff and I really hate buying it. Meanwhile I was gifted with a healthy supply of packing peanuts and bubble wrap from a dear friend of mine! She told me she had some packing materials for me, but when I saw the boxes and boxes sitting outside of my garage, I felt like I had won the packing material lotto. Thank you!!
Yeah, sometimes it’s the little things in life,
~Cynthia
I did happen upon this link that I’ve bookmarked in the event styro-foam peanuts are ever outlawed.
P.S. I’ve been playing around with my banner, let me know what you think!
