A Little Honesty About Plastic-free Lifestyle: Getting along with it
I am almost at the end of 2 weeks without any single use plastic purchase in my life. As a general overview, I have way less waste compared to 2 weeks ago. I am having justified pride of it, plus I was feeling chills every time I threw something away in the garbage on the balcony…
The second week was harder and easier in some cases. I was dealing very well with suppressing my instincts for fast paced shopping. I went to the supermarket just 2 times for essential needs. As I mentioned in the first week’s diary, I used to go to supermarket every day and buy the most unnecessary things to eat. Stopping that, benefited me financially too, a lot.
I baked brownies this week to keep me up sometimes and fulfill my immediate sugar needs. When I make my own snacks at home, first of all these last for a few days and it is cheap, I can try new ways to cook or bake and it became a joyful time that I spend in the kitchen. My flatmates seem to enjoy it too..
I also mentioned that I was planning to go to packaging free stores and street markets in the city center. I actually did not. I don’t know for the future but for now, I was able to find almost everything I wanted by going into every supermarket I see around. I was just well prepared to buy something at any time so I always had little bags with me.
Changing habits are difficult. I am already working on changing one major habit and I think forcing myself to plan every step for shopping in advance would not be the most realistic scenario. I am a very spontaneous person in nature and can be lazy from time to time. Also, I don’t believe that we have to change our order of everyday life and certain harmless behavior to avoid plastic use. We should be able to do it just naturally. I kind of happen to take the control and do it until now.
