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When people hear that you try not to buy new stuff they get the impression that you will end up dressed in rags, and since I feel that we should all be ambassadors for this way of life, I try not to let that happen, so when the pair of gloves that I used for the last 2 winters (that I found in some sort of lost property bag in my dad's wardrobe and have age 11 printed on the label) started to get a hole (which actually developed quite quickly) in one finger (and as it turns out on closer examination is wearing thin on most of the others) I had to act quickly.
I had an extra 15 minutes to browse charity shops when I missed the bus, but this unsurprisingly didn't yield any success. So I took to freecycle to see if anyone had a spare pair lying around. I am in a Facebook (zero waste free cycle Ireland) group that has a lot of my sustainably minded friends in it, so I don't know if it was because I was asking among people I knew that added to my speedy success, but I had a new pair of gloves lined up in 7 minutes! Bam! Easy peasy, picking them up tomorrow!
I had an extra 15 minutes to browse charity shops when I missed the bus, but this unsurprisingly didn't yield any success. So I took to freecycle to see if anyone had a spare pair lying around. I am in a Facebook (zero waste free cycle Ireland) group that has a lot of my sustainably minded friends in it, so I don't know if it was because I was asking among people I knew that added to my speedy success, but I had a new pair of gloves lined up in 7 minutes! Bam! Easy peasy, picking them up tomorrow!
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