I often wonder why some people think it is belittling or
somehow degrading to buy or inherit other people’s unwanted (cast offs) items. A
post on a forum I came across recently said just that which astounded me, this
was my reply to his post.... I have
dignity and self respect, yet I have no problem with recycled goods or clothes.
I brought an old church pew for $20, have nearly stripped it back to complete
Rimu...just beautiful! It will sit proudly in my house, not as someone else's
cast off, but as a treasure unearthed and I'm always in fashion...just not when
everyone else is lol. People get too hung up on materialistic rubbish, its a
long fall from the pedestal!
Now this is more than just personal choice, it is personal
responsibility. Hey, if you can afford to buy everything new and you choose to
do that, then that is great for you but be thoughtful in your choices of the disposal
of your old items. There are many recycling sites, charities and organisations
who would happily accept and use these unwanted items instead of yet more, still
useable products choking our already over used landfills. Things that take years
to break down, that’s if at all. Things that poison our waterways with toxic runoff.
I wonder if in years to come how many of our cities/housing developments will
be built on old landfills because we need to keep making new ones? Will the world just become one big landfill?
One less item in the landfill is essentially one less
product needing to be made...
