I was watching Pop Siren the other day and there was a little life hacker tip for eating snacks without greasing up your mouse and keyboarding fingers. Chopsticks. I remembered I had a couple nice sets of chopsticks my Mom got for me when she was in Osaka and it worked like a charm.

As I’m sitting there, coding my wife’s online store and munching away on a bag of buffalo flavored pretzels, I started to think of the forks or spoons that I use and throw out at work. I give them a wash and use them a couple times before I throw them away but… chopsticks. Chopsticks are a cinch to clean and it even takes less water and soap to clean them.

So I’m switching to using chopsticks. I’m starting at work but the more I use them the more I think I will adopt them as my personal eating utensils all the time. Thinking of the water, heating energy, and soap I’d be saving by switching myself to chopsticks, just me and my little bit, makes me feel better. Plus the vision of me, joe-average-white-guy eating some Mexican dish with chopsticks has been enough to make people ask what I’m doing. So far everyone’s reaction is “Huh… I never really thought of it that way.”

Giving people that little moment to look at some part of their daily behavior with a new perspective is another perk.

How to use chopsticks

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