Day 46

Collection

• Mail

1. A statement (file/reuse)
2. Bill (file/reuse)

• Food and other packaging

1. 1 plastic pretzel bag (reuse)
2. 3 glass beer/soda bottles and bottlecaps (reuse)
3. 2 paper bags (reuse)
4. 1 big piece of masking tape, used to pick lint off of something I crocheted (garbage)
5. 1 glossy paper yarn wrapper

Reuses and other projects

• Today I cleaned out some spots in my living room and gathered a lot of reuseable materials in the process. Much of this was paper from my desk, and much of that was made up of piles of junk mail I had not yet sorted. Even before the project started I was finding it increasingly difficult to throw out potentially useful items, so I have quite a collection. I found at least 15 credit card offers from American Express. These should be drying up now that I have taken myself and my husband off the the mailing lists for credit card and insurance offers. In the meantime, I began a project with them. So far, I have made several sheets of homemade paper using just the credit card offers. I saved the intact envelopes, the thicker paper and those fake "your name here" credit cards they send. I threw out the tacky glue that adheres the fake cards to the paper. From all of this I'll be making some small notepads.