I am an evangelist. I want to scream from the rooftops: “Bulk buy people. BULK BUY!” Not just because it’s a more eco-friendly way of shopping – less packaging, fewer trips to the shops and fewer deliveries – but because it’s cheaper.* I feel like the supermarkets have been conning me for years (well of…
To mark the start of ‘not buying new’, we have banished Amazon from our home. No more waiting for packages to arrive, on a weekly,…
So why ARE we doing this? Until now my answer has been “ask Clare”. But if I keep saying this, I have the feeling she’ll…
…Is what most people have asked when we’ve said we’re not buying new in 2020. Or, in the case of my brother, who is programmed to asked awkward questions: “Does buying a packet of three pants, count as one item or three?”
The challenge that I’ve set myself and my husband is simple: don’t buy new in 2020. Because I’m a generous soul, I am allowing us household essentials and up to 20 items that we can’t get easily get second hand.
