My Paper Challenge: Results

Yeah, so I am a couple months' late turning in this report. If you missed out, you can read up what this project was all about here. But put simply, I saved an entire month's worth of paper that could be recycled so that I could see how much of an impact I was making in my efforts to go green.

I did this back in December, and I'll admit that I did it then because it was a busy month for gaming companies to send me stuff and Christmas cards and all that jazz.

It took me awhile to actually find the time to weigh it, since I didn't have a scale at home and had to lug it all to work and weigh it on a postage scale we have. The weight results: 8.36 pounds.

I went through nearly 8.5 pounds of paper in one month. For you math idiots (like me) out there, that comes out to just over 100 pounds in a year, assuming I sustained that each month. But now comes the point when I have to dig through it all and find out where I can cut down on some of the usage. Are there bills I still get that I can go paperless on? Am I still getting credit card solicitations that should have been cut out by taking my name off the mailing lists? Who are the bad seeds that are cluttering my life that I don't need.

Not sure how low I can get it, but I am interested in the journey, and any amount of paper cut out can't hurt. I'll post some solutions I have used and heard of soon to help you all out as well. Also, I think I'm gonna make this a year-long challenge. I'm going to start in March and do a monthly tally, because I do realize that one month does not make this an entirely scientific study. And you know me, I'm all about science.