Missouri Botanical Garden

Just invited one of my teammates!

The design of this site is so engaging :)

Since it's the last day of the challenge, I decided to finally answer one of the reflection questions! Reusing "single-use" plastic bags has been one of the biggest worldview shifts for me this month. Specifically, I've been reusing bread bags and other snack bags to clean cat litter! They're not big enough to use as full trash bags,...

Husband didn't understand purpose of spray bottle. Dumped out my home made cleaner and co-opted the bottle as a tool for cooking. I have to get another bottle and label it. Labels are our friends.

A friend of mine pointed out the section of wall where a paint drip had dried. It annoyed him to no end that he had allowed that to happen. To him, it ruined the look of the whole room. I remembered the room when there were no walls, just studs and electrical lines. It looked amazing. I didn't even see the paint drip until he pointed it...

I cannot say that I have.

I actually bought these items for a friends child, and they were all thrifted besides one set of colorful wooden blocks that I had purchased. While it was sustainable to give the thrifted toys new life, he was much more enamored with the wooden blocks! I thought the Paw Patrol themed toys I found at our local Goodwill would definitely take the...

My grandmother kept a shoe box with mementos she’d saved over the years; birth announcements, funeral cards, Valentine’s Day cards from grade school days, and the like. At the bottom of this box, I found an article about the new B-50 bombers carrying the latest in atomic weaponry; the bombs that made, “the Nagasaki-Hiroshima job as obsolete as...

I pay $9 for soda cans; which I then pay $35/month to recycle out of my life. That $35/month recycle fee also covers recycling the many political ads that I find in my mail box and then immediately put in my bin without ever reading them. This is the bulk of my recyclable paper waste.

There does exist a litter-cleaning social club of sorts within my city. Show up to a trash-bash or two, the monthly beautification walk, an electronics recycling event, or the like and you will meet them.