Living For Tomorrow

I recently came to a point where I really thought about what I wanted to leave behind. Certain aspects of my life were not where I wanted them to be—my health, my motivation, even my attitude. That’s when I found Zero Waste and minimalist bloggers. I have always been one to refuse a plastic bag at the grocery store when I buy a couple items and I thought I was saving the world one bag at a time. I also was astonished at the fact that some minimalists could be so daring to only own a backpack’s worth of personal belongings while I, on the other hand, own every season of I Love Lucy on DVD under my bed. Only now, after research and contemplation, do I realize that reducing the amount of fluff in my life might be the solution I have been looking for. Bea Johnson, the founder of the Zero Waste Lifestyle movement, follows five seemingly simple steps that she calls the Five Rs: “One: we refuse what we do not need. Two: we reduce what we do need. Three: we reuse by swap...