"Recycling can waste more resources"
 

If you just checked in to tell me that I am a head case, please do not bother. So, I have been having fun with my roommates. If one stays much longer, he will be the first roommate who cleans that lived here for very long. I have cleaned up after the other guys for most of the time that I have lived here. That one "deep cleaned" the kitchen while I was at drill, but threw away many of my things in the process, and I needed to tell him to move the kitchen table from the living room. I have also seen him in a bathrobe more than I have seen him wear clothing. In the back of the refrigerator, I found an old bottle of pasta sauce, which one of them grabbed from my hands and threw in the garbage. I pulled it out and while they shouted at me and one talked about how wasteful recycling can be, with the others agreeing, I rinsed out the bottle and put it in the recycling.

Not that it makes any difference, since they put all of their garbage in the recycling.

So, today I came home to this:
https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...98&oe=5569592D

Upright Vacuum cleaner, carpet shampoo-er, steam mop, and a compact vacuum. That's a good cleaning set.

What did I miss?

To be fair, we've all known that for some time. :)

Sounds like an educumation problem. Once they're no longer shouting (sounds like quite a scene), ask them to explain how it can be more 'wasteful' than wasting everything.

Start buying recycled toilet paper and see how they react to that.

The latrines ran out of toilet paper at drill. Had I remembered when I had the time, I might have been Johnny Toiletpaperbox. I heard one Soldier going through the stalls and call out "No, no, no, and this one has a roll of paper towels!"

Did any of you hear about this?

Sheryl Crow's view on toilet paper: one sheet a visit | Environment | The Guardian

I do not recall seeing anyone who kept their vacuum cleaners in the living room. I brought out a third that I had in the shed, but the last time that I tried to use it, the thing just made noise. The house vacuum was the same model and I wanted to take apart both and see if one worked afterward, but allegedly the friend of a former roommate absconded with it and declined to return the item.

Fix it or recycle it, right?

I just wonder how many times I will have conversations about vacuum cleaners when people come to visit. Maybe it would be better to just rig a curtain, so people instead ask what is behind the curtain, I can say "My room," and the boring conversation dies a natural death.

What are you saying bro? My father use to collect vacuum cleaners and lawn boy lawn mowers, but he used neither. :confused:

Don't you love roommates? Id rather be broke then have roommates again.

I got roommates because I was broke, but finances have not improved even though I spend about half as much. I am going to have a two-and-a-half-hour workday tomorrow. That must be a coincidence!

How to dry your hands with one paper towel:

Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel | Talk Video | TED.com

If Ms Crow wants to show me how to wipe with one sheet, she is welcome to try.

regards
mech

How about Angela showing you how she's been washing and reusing for over 5 years ?

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