How long could you survive off the things in your home right now? Three months? Two days? A year? If you used up every item? Do you replace dishes, towels, clothes just for fun? Some people do, I am just asking. There was a year I had to buy drinking glasses constantly, not sure if I had a bad batch or slippery fingers, but they seemed to break way too often. I like to use things until they are threadbare. I used to stock up on extra groceries, but now I tend to buy what I am making for the week and items I know our family will eat.
I bought myself towels a couple of years ago and previous to that have had the same ones for as long as I can remember. Clothes were my weakness and I have curbed that as well. I try to be minimal and practical, it is funny how we can be as consumers. Try emptying a room, you find out pretty fast, how much you have. I had enough books in this house to pile to the ceiling, clothes to fill the top of every bed and school supplies to get a few generations through k to 12. That is enough, enough buying, stock piling, getting… it just isn’t necessary.
I am still donating and cleaning out spaces, I call it my other full time job. Don’t get me started on the landfill and those that go without. We collectively need to make changes in this department. How? Swap, sell, donate. Try to buy used, use your stuff up… trending is for others. Brands are something created to make you buy, you are buying into a notion that somehow certain things are far more superior others. Who cares? Eighty bucks for a shirt? Really? Milk and a loaf of bread is almost ten bucks, if this doesn’t matter to you, congratulations on your wealth. Maybe your extra could go towards something else. I would rather spend on doing, then having..Something to think about.
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