Well this is brilliant! ππ±
Details my brain adds:
USE WHAT YOU HAVE: repair, reuse, upcycle
BORROW: BuyNothing, friends, neighbors
SWAP: clothing swaps, seed/tool libraries
THRIFT: BuyNothing, craigslist, thrift stores, free stores
MAKE: craft, garden, create
BUY: local, non-corp, co-op, farm share
https://www.sarahl.com/
#solarpunk
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/buyerarchy_of_needs_using_what_you_have_borrowing_and_swapping
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We upcycled our kitchen. Normally people would have thrown it away ages ago. It's 40 years old and fell apart in places. We had some leakage so ... But now it is for us the most beautiful kitchen in the world.
The doors been done, new top layer, but it did cost paint, tools and stuff. Electricity. That's the other side of renovation.π€·π»ββοΈ We often buy in secondhand stores. We bring things too. They sell it for Africa etc. (Dorcas, The Netherlands).
@knottedthreads haha, for real tho...
One of the coolest circular economy things I've found is a local shop called Creative Reuse β it's a place where people can donate craft supplies from all kinds of maker stuff,and they resell, basically an alt-reuse store for crafts, which makes soooo much sense.
I think stores like this are popping up more (you might have one near you!), and it's another model people are trying out for #circulareconomy
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We've got one of those where I live. (Bonus: it's a ten minute walk from my house.)
I was just over there yesterday, picked up a bunch of impulse purchases ($7.49 π± π) Didn't find what I went there for, then before I walked out, took one more turn around and, tucked hidden back a bunch of similar stuff, found β’exactlyβ’ what I'd gone in there for. π
@susankayequinn @knottedthreads
I'd actually unloaded a LOT of stuff to them over the last couple of years, during utility-upgrade motivated dungings-out. Taking a look at their stock more carefully yesterday, I realized I need to put them in my will for when I shuffle off this mortal coil.
No apologies needed.
@dx there are limits to any iconography
I welcome you to make your own visuals/graphics that you think will convey what you want to convey!
@susankayequinn For those of us in upstate (functionally oneonta area and east of it) new york, weve just started our own little mutual aid thing.
fingers crossed that it takes off. 15 folks have signed up so far!
@susankayequinn agreed! here's a link, it might give folks some ideas as to how they can do it, too.
https://sites.google.com/view/theawencenter/the-awen-exchange
@kevingamin Nice!
Husband loves being handy with all kinds of stuff so I'm challenging him to fix things more regularly now. Meanwhile, I've got a whole pile of mending I need to get to!!
@susankayequinn nice! Thanks!
Tho my instinct tells me that making is better than many other things.
@antoinechambertloir hmmm
Iβm a big fan of the βborrow booksβ model (on the way to the library now) and I had to buy her book used because the publishers I guess stopped printing it, but my husband would tell you I buy a LOT of books, in part to support the arts, so Iβll allow it :)
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