Coming out of the consume-less closet

So in my now two months of consume-less living and I've never once tried to hide my new lifestyle. Logical people don't usually blog about their secrets and I like to consider myself a logical person. Anyways, from time to time my consume-less-ness comes up and people hear about it for the first time. I'm always entertained by their reactions, they seem to follow a very distinct pattern. First, the person is usually shocked/confused wondering how in the world I could set a goal such as this. I always try to explain what I mean by going consume-less, but most people's minds start racing as soon as I say I'm not consuming and they stop actually listening to what I say. Once they finally start to listen again and realize things like I still eat, take showers, and use toilet paper they calm down a bit. Then the "what about" phase begins. This is where the person inevitably asks me a ton of questions all starting with "what about....". For example, what about gifts, what about soap, what about clothes....etc. etc. So I usually go through these questions for about 5 minutes before the person realizes that I'm not completely crazy and lowering ones environmental impact is not as hard as it first sounds. I also never go around proselytizing or preaching about living a consume-less lifestyle. As I've said many times, it was a personal decision to change my lifestyle and I don't go around judging those who consume the good old fashion American way. Well 2 months down 10 to go!

PS. I've included a picture of a baby polar bear I got from the no impact man blog. It has absolutely no relevance to my post I just thought it was ridiculously cute :)