Composting Makes Us Happy
I know it sounds geeky, but you know that feeling you get when you find someone the perfect gift or mail off that check to charity? That’s kind of the feeling I get when I stick a banana peel in my compost container under the sink. It’s one little thing we can do each and every day to keep unnecessary items from filling up our garbage can and living on as landfill. And in return we get rich, fabulous soil for bigger plants and that super sweet feeling that says “one more karma point” every time we add an eggshell or a coffee filter.
And since most people think composting is smelly and gross, we thought it might be wise to visually demonstrate how un-scary and un-nasty compost can be. We had to take a picture of this particular batch of veggies and eggshells because it almost looked like a rainbow:
We should also mention that the compost container that we keep under the sink (shown above) is air-tight and 100% odorless (we snagged it at Target for around 8 bucks). All we have to do is walk it outside to add the latest collection of peels, pits, and tea bags to our super simple exterior compost bin (picked up at Lowe’s for 7 clams) a few times a week. Easy peasy.
So if you’re in the market for a bit of quick karma and some free organic soil, check out our step-by-step tutorial for making a sweet little compost bin of your own. Everyone thinks it’s this huge commitment that takes hours to do (even I thought it was a big step when John suggested it) but composting has honestly made our lives easier, not harder. We take out the kitchen garbage half as much, we don’t have to drag the garbage can to the curb nearly as often, and we never have to haul home garden or potting soil anymore. Life is good. Happy composting everyone!
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Yay for green ideas! You are right, it is SUPER easy to compost and it makes such rich soil for our plants. Keep up the good work!
You can get an old ice bucket for about $1 at a thrift store, too… same concept, plus you can find all sorts of neat retro designs!
That is so great that you are composting on your own prerogative!
I live in Toronto (Canada) and here we have garbage, recycling, AND compost bins as part of the regular “garbage” pick-up!
We live in a condo so it’s nearly impossible to compost, instead what I do is take all of our food scraps, coffe grounds, other compostibles to the Food Plus recycling bin at work. To help contain the mess and stink I keep our compost container(a empty costco size liccorice jar) in the freezer. A few times a week I bring it to work and empty. Keeping it in the freezer seems funny but it works great because the mess out of sight and our kitchen is stink free.