Someone asked me a while ago to think about things that I was wasteful with.

Generally, I wouldn’t. Think about it I mean. But I did anyways, and as hard as I tried I couldn’t think of anything very important to decided to use less of. My showers only last twenty minutes tops, and I cant make that shorter cause Its just the essentials as it is. I always turn lights off when I leave a room. I probably eat more food than I need to, but I’m already working on that!

But peppermints….

I LOVE peppermints. They taste wonderful, and they make your mouth smell like happiness. What could be better!

But alas, that’s the thing I’m wasteful with!

At restaurants, when they have them in the little jars, I take as many as I can while the waitress isn’t looking.

I always carry a few of them around with me.

One time my blood sugar was low in the middle of the night, and I had a MASSIVE craving for peppermint (low blood sugar cravings are like pregnancy cravings only sometimes worse) and I just dug through all of the cupboards in the kitchen, and took EVERYTHING out, until I found a Tupperware bowl full of crushed candy cane that we used last winter to make candy things. “At last!” I thought to myself “my love has come back to me!”

I didn’t even bother getting a spoon. I just sat on the kitchen floor at three in the morning in my pajamas digging my hands in a Tupperware of powdery minty goodness.

God, please help me to not be wasteful with peppermints. Amen.

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