Ashamed though I am, I will fully admit that for a number of years I took great pleasure out of buying cheap clothes, wearing them for the required few months and then giving them away to charity.
Great pleasure. I love buying things and if they are a bargain ......... all the better.
Just lately though the edge has definitely gone. I haven't got enough money to waste on products that don't last. I definitely don't like the idea of people sweating their pores out to make my clothes and not receiving enough money to live properly. ... what kind of life is that??
And, nope, it shouldn't just end up in the ground.
So I have vowed, never to buy cheap again. To consider what I buy and to make damn sure that when I do buy .. well anything ....that it is utterly gorgeous and will last.
I am currently wearing my final cheap purchase.
Cute, dotty shoes. At least 4 weeks old.
Inside sole, peeling out and made of cardboard. Hole running right around the top of the shoe where the outside sole has split. Leaking. A lot.
Waste. My money, materials, someone's hard life.
Please let me know what to do with an old pair of shoes that were not worth the money spent on them. Which was very little, believe me.
1 comment:
Hey Daisy,
The Swap Its are in your hands now- hold them every week if you like! (I'll be holding them fairly often, it is quite simply the second best way to get clothes! The first being from the second hand shop in that they are cheap AND your money goes to a charity. But it is hard to compete with completely free eh...)
However there will be other Activist Party Ideas coming out of Oxfam soon I am sure, so keep your eyes peeled. I had my last day there today, with the Swap Its coming to a close so can;t even keep you updated I'm afraid.
Sorry about your dotty shoes- Swapping and op shopping (thats what antipodeans call charity shopping which is rather nice I think) are definitely the way forward.
:)
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