I have central air and cool almost the whole house, but it’s turned off when I’m not there, and only comes on an hour before I get home.

I drive big heavy gas-guzzling vehicles, but I get them with the smaller V8.

I’ve used so much water on my lawn this year that Lake Michigan has droppped 2¼ inches, and I may soon need a deeper well. But I don’t water at all beyond 60 feet from the house, in the backyard.

So I guess the only thing I really am frivolously wasteful with is food. I throw out a lot.
Sometimes I buy too much, sometimes I get something that looks pretty good, but isn’t. Often just I don’t get around to cooking something in time so it gets tossed. Leftovers? Who wants to eat the same thing two days in a row.
Could probably feed 10 starving African kids with what goes in the trash bin.
But everbody is free to rummage, if they like.

Awesome! When I camp out in your backyard I can pull yesterday’s steak out of the trash can. It just looks nicer every time you tell me about it.

PS. Can you start watering the backlawn? I don’t want the grass to be scratchy.

If you East Coasters would quit sucking up all the rain and save some for me, the lawn would be green and lush without any watering.

you grew up in central florida without AC? WOW!
I lived there for a while without it, but now (same approximate climate) we run the central unit from May to October, and take at least two showers a day. When you get away from AC in this climate, you can actually hear yourself sweat. I gotta get out of here.

I don’t water the grass, cause then it grows faster, you have to mow it more often, using more gasoline, getting too hot, having to take more showers and . . . well gee whiz. I must be a patriot.

No I didn’t get to Florida until my adulthood.  Prior to my eighteenth birthday, I lived in three places: Northern Ohio off Lake Erie, south eastern Ohio in the Appalachias, and western North Carolina. We actually had AC there, it just wasn’t turned on much.

Probably my worst habits are leaving multiple computers running 24x7 (I do turn off monitors though), and like Stubby leftovers are of no use to me. At best, the cat might eat some, but usually it’s either in the trash or in the wife.

I’m completely environmentally pleasant. I use A/C, but keep it low. I insisted that the building replace the old A/C piece of junk with a new one that was eStar or whatever that environmental rating dealie is.

I never used A/C, ever, except for the last 1 1/2 years.

I recycle everything. My actual garbage is on tiny bag every month. I don’t drive (haven’t owned a car since 1980), I only take public transportation to work in the morning, I walk home.

I’m holier than thou, and I don’t mind sticking it in your face and waving it around.

I’m not a big fan of leftovers myself. If I had half a steak left I’d refuse the doggy bag. It just gives you something to carry around, and it sits at room temperature, and then the next morning it doesn’t taste as good. No thanks. And you can’t microwave fish. Maybe you can, but I don’t want to.

THere’s a few things that you can have delivered which I might eat the leftovers: pad thai and pizza. That’s about it.

Slim Jims are still good the next day, if you spit out the hard dried piece on the end.

I like leftovers - especially leftovers that don’t really *have* to be reheated and can be eaten with fingers - cold steak, Taco Bell, pizza; it’s all good.

I do need to turn down the sprinklers from once every two days to once every four. We reseeded the lawn a few months back and I think it’s probably well enough established now that I can let it dry out some (and not have to mow it so often). I replaced the electric mower with a reel mower at about the same time - more excercise, less waste, leaves more nutrients in the lawn. PITA, though, if the lawn is allowed to grow a few inches too tall.

Hubby does the strimming of the edges.  The strimmer is electric.

The PC is generally left on.
When I actually bothered to check the electricity usage chart on our bill recently, I nearly fainted. I definitely need to take a look at what is running and when because WE IS POOR and can’t *afford* the waste - hell with any ecological arguments.
No A/C but the hubby was leaving two fans running 24x7 for awhile there. I’ve started turning them off.

Stove, heater, dryer are all gas.

I could give Ed Begley Jr. a run for his environmental money. In the past 20 years, I have used less than 2 dozen shopping bags.

And I do a LOT of shopping.

In the past 20 years, I have used less than 2 dozen shopping bags.

Sigh. Love to everybody but piety never interested me. I wanna hear what y’all do wrong, not what you’ve been doing right.

The PCs are left running all the damn time.

I flush the toilet more than ANYONE!

/I pee a LOT!!! And I’m NOT letting that pee stink up the whole apartment!!!

Moira

Your icon has disappeared! Oh, NOES!

I don’t have an icon. I have screenshots of my CoH toons and that’s just too sad and nerdy for this space. I plan to make it even sadder by creating an animated gif of all my CoX toons.

And I haven’t changed the sprinklers yet so they are going off for 30 min every two days.
And my car desperately needs a tune up so it doesn’t waste as much gas (30 years old, you see).

Errrr… we buy lots of meals at drive-through windows?  Ummm… we leave two lights on in the office all night? (got robbed once, you see)

Is that better, Lady P?

Um, it was more Moon I was bitching at, but I appreciate the enthusiasm.

Piety? Because I always carry a messenger bag?

well since i’m technically living in two apartments at the moment my energy consumption is through the roof… EXCEPT i forgot that when i told the electric company that it was ok to turn off the power in the old apartment not remembering that i need the power to run my pc and broadband connection which powers my only phone. D’oh!
In general we have the fan going all day no matter what. We had a window a/c unit in the bedroom running on auto, but half of the windows in the apartment are generally open, so yes ma i’m cooling half of the city of portland. the new apartment is on the other side of the building and is way cooler. more shade trees and there’s a ceiling fan.
somehow we manage to have about 2-3 huge garbage bags of trash every week. we separate the recyclables thinking that if we separated them, the building management people would put them into the correct bins for pick up… however they just bag the shit and add to more trash… so really we’re not recycling anything, we’re just putting bulky trash in a seperate bag.
we also (when there’s power obviously) have the computer and the monitor running 24/7… there’s also the issue of us leaving various taps on for the cats. for some reason they refuse to drink out of water bowl, so we’ve come to the conclusion, that since we’re not paying for it… we’re going to screw the landlords as much as possible.
i walk the 1.5miles to work, but generally drive home…
there’s more… i just can’t think of it

I deliver pizza to people who is to lazy to open a can.  Even though I average about 30 mpg, I can still burn up 5 or 6 gallons on a good night.  Funny thing is, every time there is a major jump in gas prices, people think it costs to much to drive & get a pizza, so they ask for delivery.  These are the cheap bastards that never tip.  Fortunately the next week the regulars return, and they are much more understanding.

Moon, I’m just giving you a little hell. Breaking you in for the day when I polish off your gin supply.

My gin wears a derby!

And as I mentioned in the cooler, my apartment’s hardly freezing. You could sleep without a blanket, and that’s me talking; I am only mildly warm when its 90. And I do have the super-efficient ACs, but I’m up high in the building beneath a flat-tar roof. Not much to be done about it.

My gin wears a derby!

HA!

So there!

Here’s a question about tipping. I get salads at the hipster doofus health club. All they do is take the salad and dressing out of a refrigerator.

I never tip. They look at me funny. They do less work than a McDonald’s. At McDonald’s, the person has to get you a fork and croutons.

Oh. I totally took that as a euphemism. *Blushes, tremendously, hangs head in shame*

In NYC, you tip for everything. If you get a slice of pizza, you tip. If you have one of those add-any-five-ingredients-salads, you tip. At the sushi restaurant, where there is a little store with prepackaged sushi, you tip (I know, I know, pre-packaged sushi. you should eat it ten minutes after its made. But sometimes I’m in a hurry, and they do a quick enough business that its never there very long).

But I’m a ridiculous tipper. I’m also overdrawn on my bank account. I need to rethink my financial strategy, do some of my own cooking, that sort of thing.

Get your mind out of the gutter.

/I don’t get it, though.

I’ve got all these little derbies laying around my apartment.