2012: Day 5-6

In two days, I've used two thirds of page. They were both for envelopes. One was used in transit receipt recording. The other, more joyous, was to send a birthday card to my second cousin Caleb. He's 8 now. I can't believe it! He was totally worth 1/3 of page and more!

2012: Day 4

I'm proud of only using 1 entire page so far. I used one side on the 2nd and one side today. Both were for business receipts. I have 2 other sides to write on. If I can do this, so can anyone. I make my writing but paper after all. Most people can say that and are not even as paper conscious as I am in regular life. Pages remaining: 5,836.

2012: Day 3

Only .5 pages off use! Pages- 5,836.5- remaining. Go me!

2012: Day 2

I forgot to post yesterday, even though I wrote it on my to do list. I used .5 sides and I signed up for electronic book keeping, a New Year's resolution. I'm still at 5,836.5 pages.

2012 Day 1

No use today. 5,837 sheets of paper for the entire year.

Prelude 2012: Beginning Again

For the third year in a row, I am attempting the Paper Diet. Last year, I abandoned it after some 100 days. This year, I'm really committed to seeing it through. The rules are basically the same. I will attempt to get through the year setting tomorrow with only 5,837 sheets of paper. As before, because I’m sane, I’ve decided that certain categories of paper simply don’t count. For example, paper used for bodily fluid clean up is off limits towards the total count. It also doesn't count if I use a timesheet provided to me by my fiscal intermediary.

However, if I screw up and forget to get new timesheets when the old ones get taken in it comes off my count. Therefore, I will try to avoid this. Of course, if need be I'm going to do it because I don't want anyone to be paid late due to my stupidity. I see that as being a major source of paper consumption that I must avoid.

The results from last year which, even though I abandoned the diet not even one third of the way through the year, were promising, are: I still have four unopened reams of paper. I'm going use those until they're gone because 1) I don't have the money to go buy a new box for no reason and 2) it goes against the idea of the blog to waste four perfectly good reams of paper for no reason.

Wish me luck and stick to it ofness, which I'm not sure is even a word, with this blog starting tomorrow.

Day 131

In the nearly two weeks since I wrote this blog, I've used 13.5 pages. Receipts took up 1.5 pages. Housing list took 2. Poems took 8 pages, but I didn't end up going to writing group because I was ill. I also wrote a note for my assistant. Total usage is 1316!