Catching up: Sew for a Change #4 & 5

The end of May and beginning through middle of June were really busy, so I didn't take the time to catch up on my Sew for Change challenge then, but I've been doing quite well.

May was the laundry challenge, and I made it by... basically not doing laundry. Look, I have a lot of small clothes, as Dickens would say, and when I went to do a load, it was going to rain, so I kind of took to washing my undies in the sink and hanging them up. Do dryer for me. Purchase-wise, I was hoping to go the whole month without buying anything, but I wound up buying a nifty straw hat in Kensington Market (along with two thrifted belts) on a very sunny Pedestrian Sunday.

June was food month, and again I passed with flying colours. I already don't eat a lot of beef and mostly vegetarian anyway. Going completely vegetarian for a whole week proved slightly more difficult than I thought only because the week I chose was a week I kept forgetting to bring my lunch to school, and while I will say the veggie burger at Hero Burgers is really tasty, the selection of frozen vegetarian dinners in the convenience store is practically non-existent. However, we muddled through. Clothing-wise? I finally bought nothing! Woo!

So 20 more points for me, minus 3 for the hat. Which is good, because I'm probably going to spend all those points this month. I have sewing plans and need more fabric.

July's challenge is cleaning, and it's going to be no problem for me since I already use only microfibre clothes, baking soda, and vinegar in my cleaning. I have aluminum shakers filled with baking soda next to each of my sinks and a spray-bottle filled with a vinegar-water solution, so I'm good to go. (Alexandra mentioned How Clean is Your House? which I used to watch religiously because it made me feel so. much. better about the state of my apartment, and the guck you can scrub away using nothing more than baking soda and some elbow grease is fairly miraculous.) So let's run down the challenge list: microfibre clothes? check. dish cloths? check. NaHCO₃ and acetic acid? check. Wiping windows with newspaper? Ch... wait... I'm supposed to dust and wash my windows?

Oh, nuts.