Donate Diapers

The project:
Donate diapers to a local family.

Time:
15 minutes to deliver

Why bother?
My girls have grown out of the diaper stage [(sniff!) and (thank heavens!)], but we had a little stockpile going here. Today I donated them to another family who's still in the thick of the process, and short on cash.

While I understand disposables wreak havoc on our landfills (and we used cloth for the most part), there are times when disposables are the only reasonable solution. (Ever try a long road trip in cloth diapers? OH! The agony of it!)

Worth it?
Yes - they were thankful; I reclaimed the closet space.

Photo courtesy Sean Dreilinger under Creative Commons license.

Scooping Manure & Walking Horses

The project:
Back to scoopin' manure today. (So glad to see the horses have been moved back to their regular stalls, now that we've nearly finished the TOUGH work at the temporary stalls!) And walking two injured horses that needed a little stretch before the close of day.

Time:
90 minutes

Why bother?
The poop needed scoopin' and the horses (one with a severely torn muscle, the other with a bowed tendon) needed to get out for short walks.

Worth it?
Yes - what ever it takes to earn an opportunity to interact with horses.

Photo courtesy VetMoves under Creative Commons license.

Contribute to the Game

The project:
Replace wet logbooks, provide writing implements and otherwise contribute to the maintenance of "game pieces" in a worldwide game.

Time:
A few minutes here and there throughout the course of our cache-hunting time.

Why bother?
No game can continue without someone maintaining the board, the pieces. Geocaching is no different. In fact, it's probably more difficult to maintain, with 965,889 pieces hidden all over the world. I've enjoyed this game, an often mindless, though sometimes puzzling, pastime. Helping to maintain the caches I visit helps keep it going.

Worth it?
Yes, though I confess to occasionally feeling like this is a silly pastime. Then again, what entirely diverting hobbies aren't?

Photo courtesy Cachemania under Creative Commons License.