Reuse fast food wrappers when packing your own lunches. (Makes great lunch-room conversation, “What, you didn’t know Burger King sells peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches?”)
Put your pets to sleep. Animal husbandry is a decadent and expensive hobby. A pillow case, tub of water, and strong stomach will save you gas money and a vet bill!
Make your own clothes. Aren’t you tired of the designers making all your fashion decisions?
Most people don’t know this, but moths are attracted to light because of the moon. It is only on the moon’s surface that they can replenish the dust on their wings which allows them to fly. For eons the nocturnal creatures made a nightly pilgrimage to the moon to be able to return to earth.
To you, this may sound silly. Who would cross a finish line only to begin a race? However, to the moth, it was unquestioned ritual. Every dawn they returned to our planet coated with powder from ancient stars and asteroids to sleep so they had the strength to do it again.
As time went on, their journey became more arduous. Human civilizations spread, bringing with them lights to spite the moon. Expanding cities eventually out-shined the heavens and moths began to lose their way. They flew sideways instead of up, backwards instead of fore, under and not over, in and not out. Many a moth perished before ever reaching their ancient Mecca.
In an effort to save them, the moon disappeared from the sky. She went to visit the Gods to persuade them to intervene. The Gods promised the moon if she returned to the sky, they would make it so moths were born with all the dust they would ever need to fly. They would never have to go to the moon again and thus would not chase after dangerous lights.
When the moon hung once again in the night, she looked down and saw that moths no longer needed her surface for their flying dust. But the Gods had not changed the moth’s memories. Because the lights around them were so bright, they continued to pursue the flames in her place.
On nights you do not see the moon, she is off trying to convince the Gods to make the moths forget about her light. But even the Gods have limits. She always returns to her place in the sky to watch over the world she cannot control, upon her face she wears her emotions.
