day 1- sat/sunday- Christine Brown

So I actually did this a day early, I started on saturday rather than sunday because I knew we would not be going to the grocery store on sunday. I commute so I still live with my family and I still go grocery shopping with my mom sometimes. My mom has bought between 2 to 3 of those reusable shopping bags but she always forgets to bring them and she ends up using a bunch of plastic bags for her groceries anyways. This time I made her use one of reusable shopping bags and she looked at me crazy and said, "what, what are we doing now?". I told her that it was essential to saving the environment and she replied by saying "But I need those plastic bags to pick up lola's poo". But what about the environment?!! So, I recommended that my mom buy a scooper so that she may scoop the poo from the floor to the trashcan, but she complained by saying "But the trash can will smell!". I began to think that saving the environment is impossible with this woman. As we shopped around we saw "green light bulbs" which are eco friendly light bulbs that save about 400 dollars worth of energy a year. I told her that we should buy those but my mom immediately snapped back and said, "we already have those!"... I do not think we do, but I did not want to argue at that point. As I placed the groceries in the reusable bag, she looked at me with a sour face and said, "your smashing everything by putting it all into one bag". I looked in the bag and there was nothing "smashable" to begin with. I was really excited for this day, but at the end of the day I felt really frustrated because I realized people don't understand how serious it is to save the environment, and even if they do, they hesitate because of the minor inconveniences.