I’ve decided to start giving my spare change to the homeless people I see on the street again. I used to do this before I went off the rails and started avoiding all people, but now that I’m recovered if I just keep walking on by like they don’t exist I am a horrible horrible person. Even if I have no money it’s much better to say that then just to ignore somebody.
How horrible must it be to be sitting on the street asking people for help and they won’t even look at you.
Mar 02, 2007, 06:03AM PST | 6 cheers | 1 comment
In my continuing quest to stop buying things from people who exploit other people and the rest of the world I have decided to begin the painful steps of separating myself from Amazon.co.uk. It’s harsh but they are evil after all. And instead of buying my books from other big companies I decided to find an independent bookstore. And I found the best bookshop ever!
It’s like they took all the sections I like out of a regular bookshop and put them all into one little shop and expanded them. I kept finding books I really love or books I’d always wanted to read, or new books I relly wanted to read. This has some bad implications for my finances of course…
Mar 02, 2007, 05:50AM PST | 3 comments
Uncessary underwear is a major temptation of evil. This I have decided. My mum wanted to buy underwear and tried a whole bunch of stuff on. So I was left to wander the department armed with the full knowledge that with one carefully placed comment she would buy me anything I wanted.
But then as I was wandering up and down thinking how tempting everything looked, and how lovely I would look in this or that I realised how stupid I was being. As if suddenly buying some stupid underwear would make my life better and all shiny. It was probably all made by sweatshop workers in Malaysia or something terrible like that, and made with envinronmentally destructive methods.
And what do I really want to impress any future partners with? Nice underwear or a caring and conscientious personality.
Jan 12, 2007, 03:23PM PST | 6 cheers | 2 comments
Yet again I have managed to turn down the offer of beautiful shoes offered to me free. But they do not come free!! No doubt some little child payed a heavy price working 18 hours a day in some factory of hell. And why is it I keep thinking a pair of nice shoes will be just the thing to make me look fabulous anyway??? I don’t like all the things which have been implanted into my brain!!! having nice shoes won’t make me happy! And when my last pair of trainers finally begins to leak like the rest of them, then I will buy a nice pair of fair-trade replacements. So I decree it!
I also have bought Oxfam Unwrapped gifts for all of my aunties this year instead of getting them stupid little presents. And for my friend J a virtual present from the RSPB: a nestbox to keep her tits warm in the winter :P http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/rspb/R0666/86007
Dec 19, 2006, 04:09PM PST | 0 comments
I need make-up. But it has to be make-up which is not founded on a background of guinea pig torture. How could I even imagine sitting in my room plastering stuff all over my face while little J&D scamper around, oblivious to the fact that their own loving mother is funding the torture of their fellow guinea pigs??? No!!!! I could not!!!
So the BUAV website is the place for me. I’ve sent away for their little booklet which has a list of all the non-guinea pig (or other animals) torturing brands. Even cooler they have a bunny map which has the location of different shops selling good make-ups in various UK cities, including Edinburgh. And you can download a PDF map showing all the shops and what brands they carry that are good. So useful!
Nov 01, 2006, 08:55AM PST | 2 cheers | 3 comments
May 17, 2006, 03:22PM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment
I am a terrible person. I know I shouldn’t buy shoes that I don’t know where they were made, but i just did it anyway. They were red and shiny >_< probably made by some poor half starved child in Indonesia. I have been good for ages, I’ll just have to last even longer next time. I don’t even need more shoes! I just want them! I really need to be less consuming, it isn’t healthy.
May 12, 2006, 03:48PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
After giving her more advice on saving the planet, my mum told me I was turning into my granny. My granny nags incessantly about putting money into ISAs and “not following the crowd” (well that worked out fine, I don’t follow the crowd I run away from it!) It’s because I’m always giving her advice on which is the least evil supermarket to buy from, which cleaning products are the least environmentally damaging etc. So I’m now going to try and talk to her less about it. On the other hand it was only through my persuasions that she does her shopping with a reusable bag, and buys fair trade tea and coffee. So maybe I’ll just tone it down a bit, but offer friendly occassional advice. I saw a lovely book today in the botanics gift shop : 365 days to save the world I think and it had a planet saving tip on everyday. And beautiful pictures.
May 10, 2006, 01:01PM PDT | 0 comments
Well my clicking and signing petitions has been going pretty well, and its a lot of clicking I’ve been doing. I went shopping in the charity shops on Thursday and paid extra for the goods I bought. I even paid three times the price for one item… ok it was a ping pong ball and it originally cost 10p but I couldn’t find the change to make it up any higher!!!
May 05, 2006, 10:53AM PDT | 0 comments
For the past three days i’ve been taking part in an experiment to find out the effects of Nitrous Oxide on the damage UV does to skin. The first couple of days was fine, just putting creams on… but today they took their samples… AND IT BLOODY HURTS. I had to have a local anaesthetic, then they took 4 punch biopsies and then 5 stitches (1 was bleeding excessively). True I got £50 for it, but I helped the progress of science too.
May 03, 2006, 10:49AM PDT | 2 comments
