Hello from Jess + Will

As a pair of vegans you would think it comes with the territory that we generally try to do what's best for our environment and whoever inhabits it. We take our decisions quite seriously, particularly when it comes to what we buy and eat, and generally cross our fingers and hope that we're doing more good than harm in our day-to-day lives.
Having said that, I certainly know that I'm guilty of, every day, behaving in ways that I know to be harmful to my environment and to myself, things like:

• Eating too much
• Drinking too much
• Eating  a lot of imported foods
• Being careless with soaps and other harmful materials
• Buying things I don't need
• Buying things of dubious origin or without considering their origin
• Spending far too much time on the computer
• Throwing away things that I can fix or repurpose

So there's obviously a deal of room for improvement. And a lot of the issue is (obviously not excusing buying, eating, computering too much, I know what I need to do about that...) I just don't know how I can make the right decisions about what I buy or engage with, because it's just so easy to make mistakes. Well, we're moving house and I've been faced with the amount of stuff I own and have been pretty much repulsed (I'm sure not the first person to have this response to their possessions), and although yes I would say that I am someone who likes to have their 'home comforts' around her, I have plenty now, so I certainly don't need to buy anything else. I want to know why it is that although I know what I'm doing isn't right, how it's so easy for me to blot this out as I go on consuming consuming consuming, and wonder if this is a major contributing factor to my general sense of malaise.
Certainly I've also suffered ill health as well as emotional upset as a result of my lifestyle, and have essentially, despite my consciously 'healthy' diet and lifestyle, been abusing my body by putting things in it that I know to be worthless, difficult to digest, or damaging, and subsequently I am left with long-term health issues that I strongly believe a more intuitive approach to food and other activities would remedy.

On our way to happiness & harmony

Well hey, I don't have a job at the moment, so I have a choice to either use my time watching cat videos, or I can take this time to figure out what the hell I'm doing with myself, and scratch some of the itches I've had for long enough. So that's what this is. Will and I are moving house tomorrow, we're getting married in a month, and we're starting a new life. We're going to figure out what we can do, and very importantly stop doing the things we shouldn't be doing.
I think what's key to say here is that we are young, we don't have a lot of money, and I know next to nothing about what we're going to do (Will knows a little more, he reads..) so if there are things that we can do to make a change then they are things that anyone can do. I'll blog about the things we do, and how we do them, and I'll share what we learn on our journey. As we fix, make and reuse things, cook with seasonal fresh ingredients, and figure out what we're going to do about soap, we'll document what we're up to, and why. So until next time!

-Jess