The best kind of side-effect.
, I expected we’d reap some tangible benefits—like healthier, home-cooked meals, some small savings , and less bickering over whose turn it was to haul out the trash. Plus, of course, the knowledge we were doing some small part to help stave off impending climate doom. But now, a year on, I have to admit that one of the primary reasons I intend to keep at it is unabashedly selfish: “low-waste” living has made happier.
I'm pretty sure it started with yogurt. When I switched from tossing plastic tubs of Fage into my cart every week to, it forced me to slow down and focus. Making yogurt isn't hard—there's almost nothing to it—but the one thing is does take is time. You have to remember to start the culture a day ahead and build in time on the other end to let the yogurt cool.
I’ve also learned—against all my maximalist impulses—that it’s possible to enjoy some willful simplicity now and then. Before my family started this project, I’d heard of the concept of “decision fatigue” or what popular psychologist Barry Schwartz“choice overload”—namely, that the more choices we have, the more stressed and less satisfied we tend to become. But I’d never really looked at the way those stressors might be playing out in my own life.
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