The Clean Bin Project

The Clean Bin Project:

I discovered this blog while browsing through my excellent MEC catalogue.

Jen and Grant are a couple living in Vancouver, BC. On July 1st 2008, they promised themselves not to buy any new stuff for a year. This is the kind of project that I love. They have an excellent blog where they explain the project and the rules, but first take a look at this quote to get a sense of it:

We are not unemployed hippies trying to collapse the North American economy nor are we under the impression that recycling our yogurt containers will save the world. We just figured that we have done more than our share of buying crap in the past few years, and we could stand to cut down on the purchases. Also, we like a little competitive challenge.

Taking out the Trash- The Clean Bin project (trailer1) from Grant Baldwin Videography on Vimeo.