Preparation for Low Impact Week

I'm quite excited about this coming week, in as far as I am using it to further refine my existing measures to reduce our footprint, and hopefully, it will inspire my other half to pull his weight a bit more, LOL. So here's what I hope to achieve for Low Impact Week (which will include my birthday!):

• Eat no meat meals (we currently eat meat about once a week), and
• Eat four vegan main meals, plus
• Cut out all other dairy during the day except for one cup of coffee (and it's winter here too!).
• Cut my 4 minute showers to 2 minutes for this week (did I mention it's winter?).
• Only use conserved water from the kitchen, shower or greywater on my fruit and vegetables.
• Drive the car for only absolutely essential purposes (which will be made all the more easy by the fact that petrol is 143.9c/L tonight!). Hopefully that will mean only two short trips.
• Insist on homemade or second hand birthday presents, with the exception of a worm farm ;-) (I suspect I will get cash from the in-laws and my parents so guess what I'll be buying myself, LOL? Made from recycled plastic of course ;-) ).
• Buy nothing except food, and
• Buy no processed foods, including bread (I will make my own), plus
• Buy no item that includes plastic in any form.
• Limit the use of the air-conditioning (heating) to 20 minutes of a morning to take the chill off the air when the kids get up (and before the sun comes in through the windows).

If I think of any more I'll list them tomorrow :-)