Proud of our "green" commitment

Earlier this year, Jay and I made a commitment to try to go greener. We wanted to see if we could reduce our trash consistently down to one garbage can on the curb per week. Many in our neighborhood put several cans (not counting recycling) twice a week. We get our trash picked up on Fridays and our recylcing and trash picked up on Tuesdays. I am really proud to say that not only are we consistently a single can of trash, but we usually have only 1 or 2 bags of trash in the can. The can is no where near full! Of course, we also put out 2 1/2 cans of recycing.
How do we do it? Glad you asked! We quit using paper napkins and now use inexpensive wash cloths for napkins. I bought a few sets and they are only used as napkins at meals. We cut down on our paper towel use and try to use washable towels and clothes for spills instead. I use reusable grocery bags instead of plastic sacks. If we do get plastic sacks, we reuse them for trash can liners in the bathrooms or recycle them at the grocery store. We compost all fruit and vegatable matter as well as egg shells and coffee grounds. I buy meat in bulk so there are less styrfoam trays and we recycle anything and everything that can be recycled. Since we use cloth diapers, we don't have the bag of dirty diapers in the can either.
We are very happy with what we have done so far and are challenging ourselves to do even more.
It was 32 degrees yesterday morning so we finally turned the heat on. We only ran it for about 30 minutes until the fire place and woodstove got up to temperature. We are trying to heat only with wood this year since heating oil was so expensive earlier this year. It has come down in price a lot, but we are still going to try to limit our usage of it.