Right fellas we all buy certain things second hand, obvious example is cars. We also sleep in hotels and eat in restaurants where the stuff is used But where do we stand on buying second hand clothing, shoes etc Me personally I would wear a mates top or coat etc but I don't buy second hand clothing or shoes. I don't buy dishes etc from charity shops either What about you?
Never bought second hand gear but I've bought knock off gear before, mainly when I was 19 through to about 22 and thought I was a proper football lad. Wanted stone island clobber but was never gonna pay £400 for a jacket or £200 for a jumper, a fella down the pub used to sell it cheap and it looked real (may have been real to be fair, probably just stolen). Had a few jumpers from him over the years and also the black raso gommato yellow stripe jacket, jumpers were like £30 I think and the jacket was £60.
I believe the hipsters call this ‘upcycling’ nowadays. Buy some scruffy old bloke’s used toilet for your ‘shabby chic’ house. I’d rather cut my own feet off than wear used crocs like Piskie does.
I bought a used SNES a few years ago for nostalgia reasons, that soon wore off. Old consoles are ****e.
Knock off gear is a given Although it's funny that some of the kids wear designer gear that is so obviously fake. Basically if it has Armani or such plastered in big letters they love it. Despite Armani not having that particular style in their range I was abroad once looking for a cap and a guy was trying to sell me one with Nike on one side and reebok on the other. He wouldn't have it that both were different brands
Think game consoles etc are ok as would be a bike or even a laptop if you know what you're doing Clothes specifically sounds ickey to me, bit yet I do stay at hotels and for all I know the people before could have jacked off silly or what on each other
EBay and that is great for kids clothes and such like. Last winter we got all the kids ski gear as it's mainly a one time wear and the following year they've grown out of it so you get cheap, good condition, quality stuff. Be mad to pay full price for that type of gear. I buy and sell golf clubs quite a bit too.
With you on this. Treat myself to a snes a couple of years ago to re-live my childhood of super mario allstars, street fighter etc. Bag of ****e. Played for about an hour and its been boxed up in the loft since. Some things should be left as memories
I'm lucky because people chuck their old clothes in the skip at night so I sometimes wake up covered in a new wardrobe. Usually it means I've got winter clothes in the summer and vice versa but beggars can't be choosers.
Have to say I have bought furniture etc off say Gumtree, but just things like wardrobes or even a leather sofa once But things like mattresses I wouldn't even consider
I worked in an auction house for a bit when I finished uni. One of the contracts they had was with the airport, so if unclaimed luggage hadn't been claimed within a certain period of time the airport owned it and would send all these suitcases to the auction house to be sold off. The amount of tramps and vegans who turned up bidding for Claus' left behind mankini was sickening. You did occasionally get some decent ****, but most of the time it was just unwashed clothes. @PISKIE should try and find one near him, would love it
I used to have a £40k job and buy tons of ****. Most of it not really needed, but I thought what the **** I can afford it, so I did. I’ve also been poor before, to the point where I’ve had to go fishing for some mackerel to save money on the shopping bills, I’ve seen things from both sides and I know the true value of money. I also know that 3/4 of the **** people buy, clothes, TVs, furniture, shoes, they don’t really need. But we’re bombarded with messages and adverts to ‘buy more stuff’, whilst at the same time we’re trashing the planet as a result.
In all honesty, I don't know whether that timber was FSC rated. I suppose it comes down to the fact that the shed itself is a fairly sustainable build in that it will probably stand there for the next 100 years. All depends on how much use and longevity something gets, rather than it having to be replaced after 10 years. Was involved in a similar issue with surfboards. They are made from toxic chemicals. Polyutherene foam, fibreglass and resin. The materials themselves are pretty polluting to the environment. So somebody came up with the idea of making surfboards made from blown corn foam and hemp cloth with a bio resin. The problem was that they weren't nearly as strong as the 'toxic' boards, so they got broken and thrown away and replaced, which ultimately is less environmentally friendly than using something that will last 'forever'.
