Ideal for EatingEating ethically while eating great!

Four days to go.

No spillage yet, but I feel like we're close.

My husband has been home only 4 1/2 days this month so far. I hate to think how much more stuff we'd have in the tub if he had been home more. He's not the worst of us. But he does make quite a contribution to the tub. Perhaps this wasn't the best 40 days to do this experiment. There probably is no best time at all. In just a couple week, my daughters will be going to Florida to spend most of the summer with their dad. That would have been the worst time to do this experiment. 

So, the tub represents neither the worst case scenario nor the best case scenario. Like the Deepwater Horizon oil "spill" in the Gulf of Mexico, the tub is probably somewhere in the middle. Unlike the Deepwater Horizon "spill," we can plug the hole if we want.

(As a side note, we started collecting food packaging two days before the Gulf "spill" started. At the end of our 40 days, we'll take steps to reduce the amount of food packaging we use. I hate to think how much longer Deep Horizon will continue to erupt.)