All this talk about reducing our usage of plastic bags really got me thinking. For some reason, we have an addiction to garbage bags in our house. We really don't need them, since we compost our food waste and our garbage is generally pretty "clean" and not stinky, wet or gross. So why not get rid of the garbage bags all together? I think that we'll give it a shot and get off the plastic bags for good. I'm not going cold turkey, though, but I admit we have a problem and and working my way through the 12 steps of plastic garbage bag addiction :)

We have had a variety of compost bins in the multiple houses we have lived in. Most of them didn't really work, one of them was infested with rats and the rest just turned into slimy, smelly sludge. But, last year, we put our mind to it and lo and behold, have been getting compost from our brush bin and hope to have compost from our food waste bin this year (see the worm picture!! BTW - pistachio nut shells NEVER compost - that's them in the upper left hand corner of the picture!!).