I do not clutter the earth, I do not throw away things that may still serve.

Keeping old things at home for our mentality is OK. Stacking items in a closet or on a balcony, because if you need something, is also not uncommon. Today, people part with things much more willingly. The culture of consumption is growing, we are increasingly changing smartphones to new models, throwing clothes that could still be worn into the garbage.

People used to keep what they had for decades. It's a different time. We strive to keep up with the times, meet fashion trends, have the latest smartphone model. Why? Emphasize status or show that we are like everyone else? Irresponsible consumers who spit on their planet. We are insatiable, satisfying our greed and imaginary need for new things through the use of exhaustible resources. Where will we be in 10 years?



We always have the old stuff at home to throw away. Paradoxically, people easily throw things away because they don’t want to clutter the house, and easily buy something new the next day, cluttering both the house and the land with garbage. Already around the world, environmentalists are worried about the overpopulation of the Earth, the resources, the global warming that we ourselves have provoked. Each of us.

Finally, some are trying to sort garbage and not buy unnecessary things, while saving resources, human labor and their hard-earned money. And yet those who consider it foolish to think before buying something, or to give up the abundance of things, food and equipment, are the majority. People prioritize beautiful clothes and work for years without rest to save up for the car of their dreams. We think less about the really important things.



Clothing Financial situation forces people to go to second-hand and drains rather than care about the environment. But in such places you can find completely new quality things. Because many fashion corporations make too many clothes and they go out of fashion too quickly. Who wants to wear something that is not relevant in the fashion world?

Sometimes we save and buy not quite high-quality clothes that wear out too quickly. Instead, it would be worth overpaying a little and buying a T-shirt or jeans that last a year or two longer. But the thing is that things, shoes, accessories are boring. And then we plunge again without memory into the world of shopping.



A fashionable direction in the choice of clothes was a capsule wardrobe. Stylists call for such a solution to all who want to keep up with the times and not overload their closet with a mountain of clothes. So there will always be something to wear, because things go well together in a capsule wardrobe. And the time for fees will be reduced by many times, because you do not need to shovel a bunch of incomprehensible sweatshirts and dresses.



8 years ago I was walking around with a push-button phone and didn’t see the point in a face-sized smartphone. The phone worked well, there were no complaints. I was surrounded by people who changed phones once a year. Later, my boyfriend made an expensive gift, gave me his first smartphone. Getting used to the new technique was not easy, and I did not understand what the coolness of this toy was.

I changed a couple of smartphones every two or three years. One fell and crashed, making it cheaper to buy a new phone than to fix an old screen. The next, of course, the newer model, began to glitch. I asked my boyfriend why this was happening. And he very calmly replied that they, smartphones, deliberately made short-lived, so that we buy new models. And then I remembered with sadness my metal Nokia, which fell from different heights and did not crash, did not glitch, worked honestly and properly until it was replaced with a smartphone.



A classmate of mine who had an iPhone 5 at the time said that when the 6th came out, he would have a 6th model. It’s not that the old phone will break by then. He will no longer be the last model. We are always trying to rise above someone, to show ourselves from the best, from the most attractive side. And the object of exaltation is not knowledge, not education and not care for others, but ordinary tsatsky.

There is no point in buying a new washing machine on credit, if you can save money and buy a used appliance that will serve its owner for a long time. If the house has appliances in good condition, most of us want to sell them, to give them so that they do not disappear. And we buy a new, beautiful, something that in a couple of years will again be dragged, scratched and irrelevant.



Now good quality furniture costs a lot of money. Remember the table-tube, which, perhaps, somewhere in the country flaunts. He'll stay like that for 20 years. Furniture used to be made by all manufacturers. People wanted it to last a long time, and it has been so until now. You can still find old things at home from that time on. Now the available segment is chipboard furniture, which is collected only once.

A couple of years ago, I lived in a rented apartment, and there was almost no furniture. I had to buy an inexpensive closet so I could put things somewhere. When I moved out of that apartment, I had to leave the closet there because it would be impossible to reassemble it. The flimsy fittings break out with a piece of door. Dad took one of his drawers, so that drawer is breathing on incense right now. The wall falls off, the drawer itself staggers. He's new.



Some throw luxury furniture out of solid wood just because the table or bed or shelf did not fit into the interior. And they throw it away because they can buy expensive quality furniture that will fit in, and if not, they will also throw it away and buy a new one. It would be much more valuable to repaint, restore old furniture, give it to someone.



There are old things at home that are dear to us as a memory. Furniture, clothes, some appliances can live a new life and still be the object in the house that keeps memories of the past. It’s not always as exciting as retro. Isn't it? Do you buy new things easily, or do you prefer to use old ones to the last?