Hello, 2012! I am so pleased to meet you. Don't get me wrong, 2011 was amicable enough, but man, that year could be a real pain in the neck - literally and figuratively. It was definitely time to move on, to reset, to start anew.
Before I jump into what we've got going on here in 2012, I suppose a brief Operation Consumption Liberation wrap-up would be good. First, my gifts wrapped in old calendar pages were a huge success with my family, which is good because I have more where those came from. And my darling mother jumped on board and wrapped all of my gifts in old newspaper. The paper and packaging challenge is definitely one that I intend to keep practicing every single day, though I might cut myself a tiny bit more slack in the toilet paper department!
I've been reflecting on the twelve monthly challenges I took on last year. Which one wins the titles of easiest and hardest challenges, which one had the most and least lasting impact, et cetera. Here are the results:
