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Something I did about a month ago really opened my eyes. I was riding the wave of complacency, just like everyone... we'd been talking (for years, literally) about getting Canada Post to stop deliving junk mail. I happened to chat with our postal delivery person as he was dropping off mail for the neighbourhood, and he said it would be sufficient to tape a little note inside our mailbox: "Please, no un-addressed bulk mail". I ran home, wrote one up, and taped it inside our mailbox - it took five minutes. Unbelievably, this has reduced the amount of paper in our blue and yellow bags to almost nothing! All of these years I've been lugging these stupid ads home, cursing, chucking them into the recycling, and hauling them out to the curb every two weeks. We had FULL blue bags and half full yellow bags almost every two weeks. This amounts to a stack of paper waste about 10 inches in height, once per two weeks, or about 4 kg. Now, almost nothing. I can't believe I've been such a chump for so many years.

It's hard to believe, but in exactly one month we'll be loading up the last of the bits and pieces and moving to our new house at Yellow Point, just outside of Cedar / Ladysmith.

It's going to be a busy month of packing, sorting, cleaning, arranging, saying goodbye to favorite places and people, and setting up the new life.

Well, it looks like we have bought a house, with trees and everything. Not just a condo, but a giant, energy and money sucking, portal-to-the-home-depot-lifestyle, house. Of course, since we're not gazillionaires, it's naturally not in Vancouver, or any other actual City, but rather just outside of Ladysmith, on Vancouver Island.