Bought no new things yesterday.

Early on Ted sent me the "story of stuff" video and yesterday Andre sent it to me too (as well as the "story of bottled water" video). Here are the links:http://storyofstuff.org,

http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/ And here is the storyofstuff blog (it's great): http://storyofstuff.org/blog/

About a year and a half ago I stopped buying bottled water (from August 2009 until now). In that period I have probably bought about 4 bottles of water;except when we were on our trip and forgot our water bottles and so bought bottled water on occasion for the train (but we did reuse our bottles). We had a brita water filter in our kitchen (filters plus that plastic jug) until about 9 months ago when we had our water tested and found it was fine. So now we drink tap water (which we put in a ceramic jug so that the chlorine which is in all city water can evaporate).

Another challenge: Ben has been invited to a birthday party next weekend but probably won't want to give his friend a plant or a movie/dinner certificate. What to do?