Back in September, I published about my decision to position a hint compost pail inside the toilet (made from an empty Blue Bunny ice cream carton that we spray-painted silver). In the intervening months, it is persisted to exercise session pretty properly. I use it to unload compostable litter not truely once I'm within the rest room, however also for matters picked up in other rooms?Including tufts of cat hair?That are too small to be worth a enjoy out to the compost bin. (Yes, it's miles right out of doors the kitchen door, however in January, just starting the kitchen door is enough to offer someone pause.) So now most of those small objects, which used to enter the trash, end up within the bathroom bucket, which gets emptied out into the bin every week or so.
The handiest problem with the bin is that the paint process hasn't held up all that nicely. As you can see in this photo, the paint continues to be in quite awesome shape on the body of the carton, as well as at the flat pinnacle floor of the lid. The rim of the lid, however?The element that receives bent and distorted because the lid goes on and stale?Has began to peel, revealing the blue plastic under. Since the rest of the lid is in pretty real form, I have to clearly scrape the paint off the rim and depart the blue aspect exposed, but this would not pass properly with the coloration scheme within the upstairs rest room, that's at the whole green and white with some touches of brown.
So does this imply I want to scrap my home made compost bucket and replace it with a luxurious opportunity like these? No, all is not misplaced. As it takes area, Blue Bunny additionally makes frozen yogurt, which is available in a carton with a inexperienced rim across the lid (as you may see here). So honestly, what we want to do is buy a carton of the frozen yogurt, eat all of it, wash the lid, masks off the inexperienced rim, and paint the relaxation silver. Then we can have a new silver lid with a inexperienced rim to place on top of the silver bucket we've got now. I'm sure that eating white chocolate raspberry frozen yogurt is a sacrifice we're glad to make, however through and big, we only purchase Blue Bunny while it's far occurring sale for $2 or $2.50 a carton. The normal charge is greater than twice that.
So I find myself with one of those peculiar dilemmas that only the truly obsessive penny-pincher faces: is it worth paying full price for a carton of the frozen yogurt just to get the lid? Compared to $20 for a new compost pail, $5.69 for a carton of frozen yogurt doesn't seem like such a bad deal, but paying for materials at all is still a big step down from just reusing stuff we already have. And it's not as if we can't use the compost pail in its current state; it just looks a bit messy. So the real question is, is it worth paying an extra $3 to get the new lid now (or rather, as soon as we've finished eating the contents of the carton), or should we put up with the damaged lid until Blue Bunny goes on sale again (not knowing how far in the future that will be)?
Yes, I clearly do commit severe perception to those objects. I cautioned you I have become obsessive.
