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Paper to cloth switch: please share your advice and tips

I recently realized how many paper napkins and towels we go through every day, especially as I spend a good 5 minutes blowing my nose every morning, and my husband often uses a paper kitchen towel to wipe stuff down even though there is usually a microfiber cloth on the sink (it does sometimes get dirty or smelly though) . How did you handle this switch? How do you deal with the dirty cloths before you have enough to wash them?

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u/tryingnottoovershare — 3 days ago
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Guerilla Ashtray project: day 4 update!

*Context for anyone new:* I’ve been cleaning up a small park near me for the past few weeks and the worst part is always cigarette butts. The city workers pick up the larger litter, but the butts mostly stay behind, especially around the benches.

There are already bins nearby, but people still toss cigarette butts into the grass, so 4 days ago I decided to try something different and attached a few ashtrays directly to the benches.

Two were made from cheap metal flowerpots and one was improvised from a can I found in the park. I filled them with some of the butts I’d already picked up so people would immediately know what they were for.

I expected them to either disappear or get ignored.

*The actual update:*
Instead, all of them are still there after 4 days, including a Friday night, and they’re getting used. Not by everyone, obviously, but there are definitely cigarette butts ending up in the ashtrays that weren’t there before.

There are still some of cigarette butts on the ground, sure, but there are fewer than before, and now at least some of them are ending up somewhere better.

u/tryingnottoovershare — 30 days ago
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Found these balcony flowerpots for 1.30€ per piece, tried something in the spots I’ve been cleaning up (contents picked up just around where it hangs now to encourage use)

Do you do stuff like this? Does it stay?

u/tryingnottoovershare — 1 month ago
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How’d you rate my repair? I think the floor is PVC and I used acrylics to cover the scratch

The before is actually after a failed attempt with a pretty orange wax (apparently my husband is colorblind), its not 100 % finished yet, but I honestly cant tell if its good anymore after staring at it for so long.

u/tryingnottoovershare — 1 month ago
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Cleaning up in busy areas - how to convince myself its okay for people to see me?

Basically title. Sometimes I get really self conscious when I want to clean up a place, but people come in to spend time there. I guess I don’t want to be seen? Anyone had similar feelings and has advice? Thanks!

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u/tryingnottoovershare — 1 month ago
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Three day mission towards cleaning up this bench is done! Made a report to the city too, although my hopes for lasting effect are low

I’ve been passing through this park-ish space for the past few years, but only recently decided to properly see how much litter is on (and IN) the ground. Since I pretty regularly sit down to smoke there, I decided to clean up around one of the benches. Took me three days to achieve no visible litter (and almost none off hidden either) left, around a 4 meter perimeter or so. I’m really proud of myself, simply because there are many animals living there and I even mustered the courage to file a report to the city about the impact my small cleanup had and of they could do it properly and add bins with ashtrays next to the benches (currently there are only two and pretty far). I just hope that it will last at least the same time it took me, but as the title says, I don’t keep my hopes high, because, you know, people…

Days one and two are linked in the first comment:)

u/tryingnottoovershare — 1 month ago