I pursue environmental protection in saving money, and finally achieve the goal of "zero waste" in life.

1, take two environmental protection bags when going out.

I have to take two, because one is for daily use, but if the shopping is too big, the other can be taken out of the bag as an extra spare bag. If you only bring one environmental protection bag and use it as a bag at the same time, you still have to pay for a plastic bag for extra purchases (incidentally, environmental protection bags in supermarkets are getting more and more expensive now, which used to cost only 20 cents, but now many of them cost 1 yuan).

2. Use shower gel and shampoo instead of shower gel and shampoo.

The price difference between shower gel and shower gel is quite large. A large bottle of ordinary shower gel 30-40 yuan, but shower gel can be bought as long as 3-5 yuan, and the price is only110. Shampoo soap is a little more expensive than shower gel because of its complex technology and high raw material price, but it is still much cheaper than shampoo without silicone oil. I am using Balea and mu 3% shampoo now. I heard that naive white shampoo is cheaper.

3, drink less milk tea, go out to buy coffee and bring your own environmentally friendly cup.

Now the price of milk tea is 25-35 yuan, which is incredibly expensive. I always bring my own environmental protection cup when I go out. If I drink milk tea, I will only choose those ordinary brands (such as coco and Yidian).

One advantage of bringing your own water cup is that you can save money on buying mineral water. If there is a place to supply hot water, you can fill it up for free. Another advantage is that some coffee shops bring their own cups, which can save more or less.

Let me add here, why do you go to the store to buy coffee when it is more cost-effective to bring your own coffee? Because drinking coffee is my hobby, professional commercial coffee machines often cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan, and the coffee they make is much better than their own. I also want to enjoy life on weekends, and the space provided by the cafe also extends my rest time, so I often go to the cafe for a cup of coffee. I've searched everything. Isn't life too hard? )

4. Buy coffee powder instead of instant coffee and coffee drinks.

Starbucks coffee drinks sold in the supermarket are actually the brand of Nestle after production, which is really not cost-effective!

I bought coffee powder 19.9 yuan/kg in Yunnan, and it tastes good as a ration. If it's a little better, I bought manner's "Little French Stick", 29 yuan /250g, which will be more delicious than Yunnan's.

If it is coffee control, it is a good choice to invest in a coffee machine (or even a toy machine) in order to drink qualified coffee at home. I am using the "Netease YEATION" coffee machine, around 450 yuan. According to a cup of coffee every day, I will be back in a month. And it can reduce a lot of unnecessary empty plastic bottles!

5. Cook your own meals and eat less food.

Cooking at home is cheaper than eating out 1/4 or more because the rent outside is too expensive now. Only 1/4 of the money you pay for eating is the ingredients themselves, and the rest 1/2 is the rent and 1/4 is the labor cost.

It is very convenient to buy food online now. Although it will be more expensive than going to the vegetable market in person, it saves time and cost, and the superimposed coupons are still close to the original price of ingredients.

Make good use of rice cookers and electric cookers. The simpler a person eats, the better, as long as there is enough nutrition.

When I am really too lazy to cook, I will buy semi-finished products (such as snail powder, Lamian Noodles, etc. ), eating a handful of vegetables and beating an egg can improve the quality of life. There is also that kind of public community canteen near my home, because it is public welfare, so the food price is very cheap. But the lunch box is charged! I occasionally bring a lunch box to cook, so that I can enjoy the benefits without spending more money on disposable lunch boxes.

6. Cultivate reading hobbies and don't buy video members.

Buy video members mainly to brush the drama, right? This is a waste of time and money. I am trying to cultivate my hobby of reading, and I can finish reading a short book in 2-3 days. If you have a movie you really want to see, just go to the cinema or pay separately. If you are still hesitating to buy a member, don't buy it at all.

The kindle I use for reading, and the paper white 3 I bought on the second-hand website for 20 19 598 yuan, is pure white, and I like this color very much. It can still be used now, and I have read more than 100 books with it.

7. Never buy a car, take the subway or take a taxi.

I don't like driving myself, so I am determined not to buy a car. This car is a burden to me. If I really need to travel by private car, I will pay for a taxi myself (it is very convenient to take a taxi now). I usually have nothing to do, so I choose to travel by bus and subway. Because my working hours are relatively free, I just need to arrive between 8: 30 and 9: 00 in the morning, and I don't need to punch in. I live in the center of the city. I can go to work by bus for three stops. From where I work, there is a big subway station (Shanghai Railway Station), so it is very convenient to travel and there is no need to buy a car at all. The thought of buying a car license plate, insurance, taxes, gasoline, parking fees (all liabilities! ), my head is big, is it not good to keep the money for investment?

8. Reject gyms and fitness instructors and exercise at home or outdoors.

I learned all my fitness knowledge in Mile Mile, and there are also many professional bloggers who share their fitness knowledge selflessly. So, why pay for a gym coach? I don't even go to the gym now. Instead of running on the treadmill (hurting your knees), it is better to take advantage of daily bus trips to exercise. Yoga can also be done at home, which can urge you to make your home cleaner.

9. Choose simple and quality clothes and accessories.

It is impossible to have only 1-2 clothes in summer because of frequent sweating; But in winter, two clothes are enough. I only have one set of thermal underwear, because I turn on the air conditioner to sleep at night, and the thermal underwear will dry in the air-conditioned room the next morning. Why buy two sets?

In winter, I will prepare a coat, a sweater, a shirt (lining), a pair of straight jeans and a pair of sports shoes. In rainy days, I will prepare a pair of boots, but I rarely wear them.

My favorite accessory now is the simple gold style. There are about 2 sets of gold earrings, 2 rings, 3 necklaces and 2 watches, all of which can be matched with clothes at will.

10, using free and low-cost resources to learn.

Being an environmental blogger and writing some minimalist chicken soup is my hobby, and my job is an engineer. There is a great demand for textual research in our major, and I successfully obtained the qualification of national registered second-class constructor and first-class constructor this year.

Textual research is expensive! Buy books, courses, mock papers and apply for exams, so we will try our best to save where we can. The secret is to use free and low-cost resources to learn! This is not to encourage people to buy pirated books. Genuine books are really not expensive (I recommend Global Online School, if you really don't want to spend more money, you can buy other people's second-hand books), but you should be good at using other people's electronic textbooks, free learning resources, and share learning materials with colleagues through crowdfunding.

Colleagues in one of our offices all have research needs, so we bought some courses together and joined some clubs. These electronic materials can be shared internally, and the learning cost has dropped a lot.

If you don't take a professional exam like ours, but just want to learn knowledge, then there are many free courses on the mile. I also joined a club, 198 yuan can read foreign magazines (such as The Economist and The Economist) for life. It has been many years, and the merchants have not run away. It's really a good deal!

I plan to take an examination of intermediate economists and builders this year! You can trust me privately if you need it, and I will tell you how to buy these resources through crowdfunding ~

1 1. Minimalism of electronic products

I have basically done paperless office now. Speaking of paperless, some trendy articles are often recommended online, such as A4-sized electronic paper books (expensive, more than 5,000! ), ipad pro and ipencil (also very expensive! )。

But I think, in fact, paperless office only needs computers, mobile phones and hard disks. I highly recommend type-C and USB dual-head USB flash drives, which usually store office documents in the USB flash drive and can be edited by mobile phone when needed temporarily. I also have a hard disk as a carrier to back up all important data (2.0Tb).

If I want to take a long vacation, I will take my computer and hard disk. If I just rest, I will only take a USB flash drive and a mobile phone, and I can borrow a computer to work anytime and anywhere!

I used to carry my computer to work every day, and I felt very diligent! But the computer is really heavy when I take the subway bus (my computer was bought on 20 15, and I am going to change it to a new Huawei recently, and the old one is for home use). Maybe diligence just touched me. But I will go out for a meeting the next day, and I will still bring it!

By the way, because of the paperless practice, others always bring notebooks and pens to meetings. Holding a computer in a meeting, people will think that I am professional and more serious about my work ~

12, respect the service life of articles.

Our demand for product upgrades is totally romantic.

Maybe it is still valuable to change your mobile phone frequently in the past few years, but now the mobile phone is more and more stable, and it is rarely changed for new functions.

The same is true of other products in life.

I have a Zyrnior thermos, which has been used for 6-7 years, and the insulation effect is still very good. I didn't even think about replacing it, it might send me away; My computer has been used for the seventh year; Many things around me are teenagers.

The meaning of this is not to encourage people to buy those expensive items, but to respect the service life of the items themselves and not to choose those things that you knew would be eliminated soon from the beginning! For example, the price is seriously low, which seems to be a product of poor quality. It is better not to buy things that are planned to be eliminated from the beginning, or to buy second-hand or lease, and to use them.

There is no need to be 100% satisfied with yourself in life!

13, make good use of second-hand websites

I have always been a loyal customer of a certain fish. If I need anything, I'll go to the second-hand website now.

From the perspective of environmental protection, this can promote the recycling of goods and avoid unnecessary overcapacity. It's not a shame to buy second-hand goods (for example, Shanghai Duozhua Fish Recycling Store is also a second-hand store! Not very cheap! );

In terms of price, second-hand ones will really be much cheaper!

Recently, a merchant asked me to evaluate the shampoo and soap of Little Red Book. In order to make the evaluation more fair and credible, I scoured similar products of other brands on the second-hand platform for comparison. Original price of shampoo and soap 143. As long as I get 60 yuan, I earn it and the seller is very happy.

My bag and environmental protection cup were also found on the second-hand platform. The value of an item depends not on its price tag, but on its value to you!

14, try not to buy expensive big-name skin care products.

Do you buy luxury brand snacks? I don't think so. Then why do you need luxury brand hand cream, lipstick and facial cleanser?

For the skin, a good rest, adequate work and rest, a happy mood and a bottle of high-tech essence are its "staple foods", while the facial cleanser, hand cream, lipstick and even cream sold together are snacks.

My essence is Estee Lauder small brown bottle (the largest package), but the matching cream and facial cleanser are cheaper.

Ponzi amino acid facial cleanser For facial cleanser, Dabao will be used in summer and Nivea will be used in winter. Recently, I also tried olive oil+hyaluronic acid skin care (which I learned in the book "Doing two breaks and five breaks"), and reduced the use of cream (because the skin is sensitive in winter, it will be a little reddish with cream, but the skin will be very stable and absorbed quickly with olive oil).

Save the money for a full set of skin care products and buy a bottle of really effective essence!

15, plant some shallots on the balcony.

I didn't know until I cooked by myself that a handful of shallots can't be used up at one time, and I don't feel anything if I don't buy it.

I bought some red onions in the vegetable market and my own DIY hydroponic basin, and it didn't take long for the onions to sprout. So all you have to do is go to the balcony and cut some onions every time you cook. Ginger and garlic tend to last longer, and shallots are the first to wither. Planting some shallots by yourself saves the trouble of buying shallots.

Finally, there are two habits that are planned but not fully realized:

16, replacing sanitary napkins with moon cups.

I used to be skeptical about the Moon Cup, but I saw more and more girls using it in Little Red Book, and I saw the Moon Cup recommended by "Old Friend Evaluation" on Mile Mile. I bought it for only 15 yuan (1688), so I decided to try it. A dozen dollars is probably the cost of eating silica gel. I think stepping on thunder will waste more than ten dollars.

If it feels good, I should invest in a more expensive one. The last incident of inferior sanitary napkins made us realize that there are still many women in menstrual poverty. Although I am not poor, buying sanitary napkins every month is really a big expense. Even if they can be used together, it's good.

17, using baking soda instead of laundry detergent.

It's also a coup I saw in "Make Two Break Five Break". The author says that if baking soda is used instead of laundry detergent, clothes will be fluffy. To tell the truth, laundry detergent is still quite expensive. There are no stairs at home, and it is very tiring to carry them upstairs, so I bought soap powder before.

The price of baking soda is much lower than that of soap powder, which makes me feel a little excited, so I bought it and tried it. And I also use baking soda to clean the scale of the kettle, clean the kitchen table and so on. Therefore, even if it can't be used for washing clothes, it's not wasted at all.

Moreover, the decomposition of baking soda will only produce carbon dioxide, water and sodium carbonate, and there is no surfactant harmful to the environment at all, which is good for our environment.

The above are some environmental habits that I have summarized. According to my personal living habits, they may not be suitable for everyone. Keep adding when you think about it. Thank you for reading!