I had looked into the prospect of washing my hair with baking soda (before I remembered that Lush selling most products package free) but the first step in that process is to leave your hair without washing it for a week, which I am not sure would be a good idea when I spend my weekends camping, visiting dusty mines and otherwise getting dirt in my hair and then have to scrub up (a bit anyway) for teaching during the week.
I rescued these fragments of shampoo from the shower floor this morning, hopefully they will be enough to keep me going until next Wednesday when the next shipment of Lush products comes with Ciarán's sisters.
I had looked into the prospect of washing my hair with baking soda (before I remembered that Lush selling most products package free) but the first step in that process is to leave your hair without washing it for a week, which I am not sure would be a good idea when I spend my weekends camping, visiting dusty mines and otherwise getting dirt in my hair and then have to scrub up (a bit anyway) for teaching during the week.
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The idea of this year was not to buy anything, because it will eventually end up in the bin, but there is one exception, high quality jewellery never gets thrown out! Or at least that is my excuse! I wanted an emerald ring to remind me of my time in South America and I hadn't got around to finding the perfect one before new year came around, so there was nothing for it but to bend the rules slightly!
And since I plan to wear it every day I refused the box in the jewellers, do I saved on that waste! This year we switched from puree in plastic packets to jars, but I decided to go one step further and try make my own at home.
I looked up recipes online and eventually found one that did not involve using an oven. Filled the biggest pot I could find with chopped tomatoes, and everything was looking well....until I got bored of waiting for the sieved mixture to reduce and at the same time realised that my biggest pot was still not high enough to cover the jars for processing. But I am an optimist and now have for jars of not quite paste, that need to be stored in the fridge, and should hopefully taste good and save us from buying two or three more jars of shop paste! While I am willing to change habits and go without things in my personal life, I am finding it harder to do the same teaching, where I buy things that other teachers may never dream of, but are part of my teaching style, like blutac (or typewriter cleaner as it marketed here) and stickers for positive reinforcement... not exactly essential items!
These are the pairs that ended up in Colombia after my last trip home (I left a few there), I have another ten pairs (that I can think of off hand, so probably more) But yet in January I was already planning on scouring second hand and charity shops when I get home as I have nothing the exact right height for teaching (usually I would have some where in the region of five pairs of school shoes), and was also worried that I hadn't found the perfect travel-to-hike pair. Now when I look at this, I feel like I have far too many pairs!
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