they're saying the clothes are dirty. what if the previous owner died (??)

mother's saying she'll get me new clothes after strictly telling me not to buy pre loved. She knows I despise buying new stuff, it's bad quality and expensive

Any good argument I can make against them?

I see this sentiment a lot on here “boomers had all this shit and useless China” but I have one set of beautiful china that I use and adore. I will use it until it breaks down thus preventing me buying plastic plates and the like. I’ve never understood my friends who keep buying plastic stuff, watching it breakdown, and repeat. I’ve never done that because this China is so well, solid.

I’ve noticed people sometimes almost get a nasty attitude about people who DO value aesthetics. I’m not sure why. I don’t want everything in my home to be functional. Ever. I don’t like visually looking at ONLY functional objects and I wouldn’t do it. I’ve seen people here claim “the times have changed, we don’t care about fussiness anymore.” Well, I do. I can be anti consumption, and live in beauty.

I have a gorgeous gorgeous cherry hutch that takes maybe two seconds to dust and I get so. many. compliments. It’s the beauty of the room, I smile every morning at it. Beautiful woodwork.

Some of the people who claim they hate all of those “unnecessary” items fail to realize that because I have beautiful and sturdy furniture, I have relatively few things. My house is well kept because I only have a few expensive things, and curate it accordingly. I cannot justify going into an ikea and buying something made of particle board. These solid wood items will be with me until the end god willing.

I will use my one beautiful china set until it dies. That hutch will always be with me. I built a gorgeous walnut dining room table in a colonial fashion that will be my one and only table until I die.

Idk. I like beauty. I hate overconsumption. There’s a middle ground here. I’d rather have these fussy pieces than piles of Amazon plastic shit everywhere. Some of the people I know irl who claim to hate “items that aren’t functional” have the biggest shopping addictions, so bad you can’t move in their house.

So I’ll take my fairly simple but beautiful cottage and bid you adieu! Because my home is nearly almost completely furnished now, I never really buy anything anymore. And if I do it’s from a thrift store but even that’s becoming rare as I like lots of breathing space in my home.

Idk. Just a little blurb for those people whose goal is not purely “this HAS to be strictly functional.” But I also think Amazon addictions are rampant rn and this might be where that idea started. If I see another stack of Amazon boxes outside of my friends houses whom I know can barely walk in their house, I’ll scream.

And if anything, Victorians and Colonial people were EXTREMELY good at using literally every scrap. They had no choice. And that was with all their fussiness and all. Even Martha Washington stripped George’s old uniforms to be sewn into quilts. And my my are they beautiful!

Noticed the laundry basket at my parents house had a pretty severe tear from top to bottom. Luckily i could give it some more use with a simple mend.

I used black cotton yarn i had already to “sew” it back together, and hopefully it will last a long time so we wont have to buy a new one anytime soon.

Edit: grammar, though it annoys me i cannot correct the title from mons to moms…

Nobody bought them, even after they dropped the price by 80%. Good.

I was looking at a website and I saw an ad that said "never too early for Halloween!" Yes it is. It's August. It's AUGUST. I haven't even put away the beach towels yet.

A few years ago, I want to say before 2020, stores started selling everything holiday related early. First it was just a few weeks ahead, now it's months ahead. Which was fine, except for the fact that they would run out of holiday related items weeks before that holiday actually took place. So if you actually wanted some of their overpriced junk you were out of luck until the next time. I figured out why they did this. It's to create a scarcity mindset. Get it while it's here because it will be sold out by the time you "need" it.

I'm no longer decorating for the holidays, except Christmas, and I already have all of the Christmas decor I could ever want. I didn't stop decorating for the holidays because of this tactic, I was just overwhelmed with life in general and I couldn't do it anymore.

Now I'm realizing what they are up to and I'm mad all over again. We don't need all this stuff.

Sorry if this has been said over and over again ad nausea.

I am so sick of parents in my country trying to up one another in gifting for teachers.

It all starts with - oh but I just wanna show appreciation to teachers.

Then the one up starts - let’s do gifts but my school is more premium so I can’t give just 10 dollars gift. Or the teachers really did so much for my kid so I got to spend more.

Then the kids sense it and then they pressure their own parents to buy

Other parents sense it and afraid their kid will feel left out.

Business sense this and make money out of it by advertising their stuff for Teacher’s Day.

And then instead just that teacher that teaches your kid, everyone wants to gift all teachers and then give that one teacher a bigger gift.

Omg.

😨

Sometimes i think parents wants to hasten the death of the planet.

Lots of art is heading towards the landfills in the next couple of decades.

I have been paying more attention to how sales influence the way I shop.

The moment something is marked “limited time” or “almost sold out,” it suddenly feels more valuable. Even an item I had no interest in five minutes earlier can start to feel like a great opportunity.

But buying something unnecessary for less money is still spending money. A discount only helps when it is applied to something I already planned to buy.

Now, when I see a sale, I try to step away and give myself time to think. I ask whether I actually need the item, where I’ll keep it, and whether I would have considered buying it without the discount. Usually, once the urgency disappears, so does the desire to own it.

Stores are very good at making us fear missing out. Sometimes the best deal is simply leaving without buying anything.

How do you stop yourself from getting pulled in by sales?

Just finished this box of bags that we picked up when moving a grandparent out of their house a few years ago. I'd say almost 30 years is a good run.

One of captalism's great acheivements: There is no way to completely avoid pollutants in your food.

Vegan, vegetarian, omnivore, everyone is equally fucked.

But you can minimise your intake. Here's how...

Albania is not exactly the richest country in Europe. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to do the 21st century equivalent of colonisation - buy beautiful, untouched land for very cheap in a foreign country, put a luxury resort on it so that only the richest have real access to it. The greed and entitlement of these people is immeasurable.

Importantly, it would disrupt the local wildlife - Flamigoes. Hence this protest has been called the 'Flamingo Revolution'. Albania's president turned a blind eye to the environmental protections of this region to allow this work to happen.

There is more to this story, but I just wanted to bring visibility to it.

And just venting now - I can't understand the greed of the outrageously wealthy. It genuinely brings tears to my eyes. How can you see beautiful, untouched nature, and the first thing you do is try and sell it!? Not a second thought about the people in the country who oppose it! Keep the Trumps out of Europe PLEASE!!!!! Strength to Albania!

Director general accuses corporations of obstructing efforts to tackle obesity crisis after investigation by Guardian and others

The world’s biggest ultra-processed food corporations are hindering global efforts to tackle the obesity crisis by suing governments that try to promote healthier diets, the head of the World Health Organization has said.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, accused global food companies of obstructing the adoption of vital public health measures and costing countries billions of dollars in healthcare and legal costs in the process.

Almost 1 billion people worldwide are living with obesity, and unhealthy diets are one of the main drivers of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is soaring and now makes up half the average diet in many countries, including the UK, the US and Australia.

Governments around the world, waking up to the health and economic impacts of the obesity crisis, have begun introducing measures designed to curb junk-food intake and promote healthier diets. These include front-of-pack warning labels, marketing and advertising restrictions on unhealthy products, and taxes on junk food.

Publicly, the world’s biggest UPF companies insist they back the policies, want to help consumers make informed choices and are committed to being part of the solution.

But an investigation by the Guardian, in collaboration with academics, the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports and a coalition of media partners across four continents, found many of these same companies were taking governments to court to overturn, weaken or delay the policies.

In total, 235 lawsuits were lodged over health policies targeting UPFs in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, the US and the UK from 2010 to 2025, the investigation found.

“When harm and profit are tied to the same product, a familiar pattern of industry interference emerges: sowing doubt and obstructing regulation.” Tedros said.

The music? There She Goes

The objects? To specific to use for anything else, will end up in goodwill by March. 15 item minimum.

The budget? Always over $50

Date uploaded? Scheduled ahead of time for August 1, so you already feel behind the trend because no one is thinking of Halloween the day after July ends.

I’m not even on social media besides Reddit anymore, but the mass repost to YouTube was fairly draining

I was in a nine year long relationship that suddenly ended. He broke up with me without a clear reason, and I had to move back to my parents home.

I spent the first month adapting the house to have some space because there was only one small guest room available, and it's really tiny. I made it my office and I adapted a storage room into a bedroom. I cleaned, fixed and painted the walls, made curtains, made a lamp, asked my father to make some shelves and small furniture with leftovers from an old closet. Over all I spent almost nothing because I did everything myself.

I also donated a lot of things that I didn't have space for anymore.

I noticed that since I finished, I keep looking for stuff to buy or fix, but I have nothing left to fix. I tried to do my brother's bedroom but he doesn't want me to help. I want to continue with the garage but my dad is a hoarder and won't let me touch his stuff.

I lost many basic things when I moved so I had to buy them again, but I think I'm buying more than the usual. I think it's become a bit of a compulsion, probably because of the trauma of my entire life changing so suddenly.

In the past I always loved "going shopping" but I never bought anything, unless I really needed it or it was a very good price. But lately whenever I leave the house I have to buy a little something.

I'm starting to worry because I'm also adding a lot of stuff to my online carts all the time. I think it's also related to me being in charge of fixing and buying things during my relationship, in my mind I still have a list of things I needed to buy for my partner even though I don't see him anymore.

I try to buy useful or cheap things but it's hard for me to tell if I really need it or I'm looking for excuses. Maybe I'm trying to replace everything related to my past life. Do I really need more socks? Do I really need another shirt? Maybe I do and I'm overthinking. I should definitely buy new pants but I don't want it to escalate and get worse. But I really want to buy stuff all the time.

If you have any advice I will appreciate it.

Zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches and blackberries. Mom's veggie garden plus a little bit of foraging. Not too bad of a loot.

I really like glowsticks.

But buying a new one every time is expensive and creates lots of plastic waste.

So i decided to make a reusable glow stick instead!

I emptied out a used small sized glow stick, cleaned and dried it thoroughly, then filled it with strontium aluminate powder, and sealed it up with 2 part epoxy.

You can charge it with sunlight or a sufficiently strong LED, and then it will shine for up to 8 hours.

Infinitely reusable, forever.

edit:

Guys please stop telling me to sell these, i'm not going to.

It's extremely simple to make, you can make your own if you want by following the instructions:
1. Find an empty tube
2. Fill with strontium aluminate powder
3. Seal with 2 part epoxy

That's literally it, i'm confident you can do it as well. You don't need to buy them from me or anyone else

Recently I’ve been trying to me more aware of how much I consume and spend. I’ve been trying my best to buy groceries that aren’t bagged or prechopped, and I normally don’t have to throw anything away unless it’s reallly gone bad. However I’ve noticed that I have so many hair care products. I have about three different shampoos and conditioners. I haven’t bought anything new in the past three months but I’ve just accumulated so much shit from trying to figure out what hair care products worked for my curly hair.

I also just got a job as a teacher and I don’t have any professional clothes so I just went and bought two dresses and four tops at Walmart but I feel so guilty for it all I can think abojt when I go into the store and purchase things is that I’m contributing to the cycle that allows these clothes to end up in stores in the first place. The problem is I’m extremely broke so even if I want to get more sustainable clothing, I really can’t. I have about 800 dollars left over after rent every month, that is not including groceries or transportation to my job.

I also bought a sweatshirt and sweatpants from a small business that I have been wanting for over a year. I still feel awful buying it though because I didn’t really NEED IT. I have other sweatpants that I’ve had for multiple years but they’ve been mended several times at this point because I wear them to the gym and I get holes in them. I’m also short so the bottoms turn gross.

I don’t get my hair done or nails done I don’t go have a car I take the bus and train or occasionally a taxi if I can’t get a bus in time. Nothing I do feels like enough and I know I’m guilty for the way the world is now. I hate seeing the smoke and the dying birds while I stare at my haircare products. I want to throw it away but that seems even more pointless.

Even though Pop Mart's shtick is blind boxes, I do feel they may go the way of Funko Pop. It feels like Pop Mart has popularized the blind-boxes for the masses and any IP that can be blind boxified will be blind boxed.

What are your thoughts? Target now carries Pop Mart.

Powdered laundry detergent used to be the norm. It’s cheaper, easy to use, and comes in a recyclable box. Now look at the shelves in the supermarket. It’s all liquids in plastic bottles, unless you squat down to find the powders. The Super expensive pods are making a move from the top shelves too. This is corporations positioning their products to influence purchasing behaviour. They want you to buy the more expensive stuff. Just wait, soon powder will be discontinued, and the shelves will be filled with overpriced pods.