We went to see Wall*E yesterday (didn't enjoy it as much as, say, Ratatouille, in fact I piled up the z's at times) and while I was in town I checked Briscoe's spring sale for coffee plungers, to replace the one that broke.  I was happy to find a stainless steel one (i.e. appears unbreakable!) marked down from $70 to $15.  It wasn't overpackaged either, coming in a plastic bag (trash) inside a cardboard box (compost).  The bus trip home used up the last section on my 10-trip card and I let the driver add it to his rubbish bin.  DD remarked that this was cheating, so I went back up to the driver and retrieved it for my worm bin.  For some reason this totally embarrassed DD.

Today we went to the new Powerstore opening sale - DD was going to look at their mobiles.  I'd wandered off to look at whiteware when she came and told me she'd seen a camera that looked like a good buy to replace my broken Powershot.  It is another Powershot, the A470, which is 7 MP and comes with a 1GB memory card upgrade and a free camera case (supposedly worth $70, wtf!).  It cost $149.  The worst thing about the camera packaging is the clamshell packaging** for the memory card, and that it came with 2 AA alkaline batteries.

** UPDATE: Requested by a reader for re-use, so no longer trash... yay!