Mostly paperless: Sew for a Change #3

After last month's utter fail, I passed this month's paper challenge with flying colours. I replaced the "No junk mail" sign and we've been flyer-free for the first time in ages. Most of my bills are already digital, and I've taken myself off quite a few mailing lists (sorry, KnitPicks). I cancelled one of my magazine subscriptions and am continuing to donate my old magazines to Arts Junktion. We already use handkerchiefs and very little paper towelling, so that was no problem.

The biggest change has been at school. I already print my copies onto the backs of previously-used pages, scale down photocopies where practical, and don't make extra copies of handouts (if a student loses a sheet, they have to download it from the website), but I can still do more. I managed to make three of my Data Management assignments completely paperless, which is a huge savings. I also did not print out a separate copy of the many-paged grade 11 Physics summative for each student, since they only need to hand in the first page and will only use one of the other pages. I made a few class copies and posted them online. Next year, I'm thinking of making lab reports online documents as well.

I was not planning on buying anything this month and was excited about seeing my points go up, but I wound up getting half a yard of silk organza to make a press cloth, then I had to buy cotton voile to underline my LGRAB dress. I thought I might as well get enough to have in the stash for future underlining emergencies, so I wound up with 4 3/4 yards. So down go the points again.

But if you look at my scorecard, you'll see that I've actually gone up. What gives? Well, I realized that I need to do a metres to yards point coversion; Canadians are funny beasts in that we officially use the metric system but there are still pockets where imperial is used; fabric stores sell by the yard. At first I was just going to count it as equal, but the differences will add up over time -- 10 m of fabric is about 11 yds -- and I need to hoard my points for future planned purchases. So I'm adding back 2.5 points to cover the past three months.

On to the May challenge: laundry. The big challenge there will be avoiding using the dryer. Poor DC; he'll be wandering through a forest of undies...