When I was recording my daily activities I started noticing things being used quite a lot that I never really paid any mind to. Doors, lights, pens and paper, my phone, and my computer were all handled quite excessively (though I suppose some of that is unavoidable!). One of the ways I broke down my data was essential and non-essential. This definition is actually quite difficult to make in today's society. Some things seem essential, but they are really just essential to our way of life, not to everyone's way of life. I tried to weed out the ones that were really just luxuries, and found that most of my consumption was non-essential.
It is interesting to compare different days for the sake of this project. My original data is from a Wednesday, a regular school day. When I think about the ways in which my activities differ on a school day from a day off, I find myself consuming a lot more non-essential "luxury" things on my days off. I also find myself using certain things more, like food-related things, the ttc, money, as well as objects that aren't used on a regular basis. That led me to another of my sorting methods: by usage. I sorted everything into items used daily or items not used daily. I found that most of what I use is used regularly, every day. However, the amount of stuff I didn't use daily was pretty close to the amount that I did. This lead me to wonder, does the variable stuff change a lot from day to day? If there is so much that I consumed strictly on that day (and not every day), how would these items vary on other days? It was quite interesting to think about the things I use in this way.
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