Just casually watching my murder mystery shows, and I have NEVER, ever heard someone being introduced to the picture this way…

They are setting the scene; place, time, characters involved— they come to the victim, a short snippet before they even announce her name, they describe her as an

“𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝐶𝑂𝑁𝑆𝑈𝑀𝐸𝑅... 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠..."

As if that is the purpose of life… to become a CONSUMER… it was very odd choice of words, although deliberate still makes it sound 𝑜𝑓𝑓...

I have started a no buy holiday challenge where my family all see how much of their holiday gifts and decor they can get without purchasing it. This means free things from market place, homemade goods and bartering with neighbors and each other to get supplies.

Girlfriend says strictly no presents for each for Xmas. She said good food and company is all we need. I was thinking if there was something I could give but can’t cost anything .. or am I best just not 🤷‍♂️

*We buy for birthdays its not any deeper than I’ve stated, we’re very happy

Do we count decluttering as anticonsumption? I've broken my wardrobe down to just what I need and then made outfits and items good for more than 1 use each.

5 pairs of shoes. 5 work outfits. 2 casual outfits per season (hot/cold). 1 winter coat. 1 swimsuit. 4 "lounge/athletic" outfits to change into.

I've been practicing yoga and reading about the philosophies and was inspired to let go of what I absolutely don't need.

So I don't understand this conversation around fashion and needing to switch ones wardrobe to "buy it for life" and "all natural" clothes.

First of all, my hot take is that the future is not cotton and wool. Producing more, even if is "sustainable," is unnecessary. The future is repurposed polyester with filters on our washers, water treatments, rivers, etc. There is sooo much fabric already created. Why would the solution possibly be to make more?

Second, maybe I'm just wicked lucky but I do not have the experience of fast fashion falling apart. Yes, my north face climbing pants apparently aren't meant to make contact with granite, but otherwise my clothes tend to outlive both my body size and the style by a couple decades. I'm not particularly easy on them, doing literally everything wrong. I do patch them or fix them if they break, but that usually takes years, not 3 washes.

This quest for higher quality sounds like even more consumption to me.

And what's more what is considered fast fashion is now basically anything less than designer (which isn't actually designed to be worn or washed long term) -- making sure everyone feels compelled to keep on the treadmill.

I’ve lost the cap to my hot water bottle and don’t want it to end up in landfill. However, online I can only get multiple and sometimes it’s more expensive than a new hot water bottle. Is there physical shop in the UK where I can get a cap?

Forgive me if this isn’t right for this sub, I’m new to it. I was just wondering how other makeup wearing people handle this issue. Over the last few years I’ve tried to cut down on my makeup consumption - I used to get really hyper fixated on various palettes and obsess over them and then get them and forget about them. I stopped doing this, and now only use what I have, or buy to replace what I’ve used up.

My favorite palette I bought almost exactly two years ago, and it was the last one I purchased. I hit pan on my favorite shades and then just kinda stopped using it, since my go-to look is used up. There was a sale on it for cyber Monday and I decided to get a new one, since I use those shades so much.

But now I’m feeling a bit guilty, because I’m sure the same thing will happen and now I’ll have two of all these other shades.

What do you guys do to prevent this? I guess I could look up tutorials and try to find some wearable looks with the darker shades, or attempt to find dupes (but I’ve found it harder than it should be). Anyway, plz delete if this isn’t the right sub for this!

There's this perfume that I've wanted for years. At a certain point I forgot the name or the brand of the perfume but I still clearly remember its smell.

Today I went into the farmacy and lo and behold, they had the perfume! I checked Amazon and of course the perfume was much cheaper there, so I kept the tab open, thinking I'd maybe order it after I finish work. By the end of the day, the perfume's price had gone up by 1€.

My first reaction was "I need to get this before the price goes up even higher!" But then a second thought hit me that maybe this is exactly what Amazon wants me to do. They want me to think the price won't ever be this low again so that I buy this item now. This isn't even the first time I've seen the price of an Amazon item go up in a matter of hours, so there's definitely a pattern. And my third thought was "no way I'll be tricked like this". Truth be told I don't need this perfume. I've been wanting this perfume for 7 yrs or so, I now know which brand it is, they're still making it after all these years, I can buy at another time (and I'm pretty sure I'll buy it eventually). I'm not going to buy it now just because Amazon wants to have my money NOW.

This goes for other types of advertising like "will you miss out on this great discount" or "one more day before your offer expires!" or "black Friday deals end today!" Yes I will miss out on your amazing discount because you don't tell me what to do!

I just absolutely hate feeling that these companies are manipulating me, trying to trick me into buying THEIR stuff because they want MY money...makes me feel like a kid, with my mom telling me what to eat and what to dress and when to go to bed... except that they're not doing it for MY own good!

To all the Amazon's of the world... I'm a grown woman and you don't tell me what to do!

This is for all my fellow smokers/vapers: any plans on reducing how much you smoke or quitting altogether (if you’re doing so)?

For myself, I started smoking cigarettes at 15F (now 26F), never had to pay for them until I was 18 since I obtained my supply from older friends/partners. Then I alternated between vapes and cigarettes over the years [with a brief hiatus in 22’ - went back once I started a high stress job in the CMH sector] which is now starting to take a toll on me especially physically since I’m not able to exert as much energy as I used to.

Budget wise, cigarettes were not the biggest dent in my expenses as I would purchase a specific pack brought in from the North (I live in Canada btw) from certain stores or people I knew that sold them for cheap and I mean CHEAP ($5/pack). Vapes were more of a dent as I moved between pods/coils/disposables and overall spent about ~$1400 overall on both this year (vapes carried the chunk of the bill).

For 2025: I plan to stop purchasing cigarettes altogether, gonna do a low-buy on vapes and buy once a month instead of refilling once a week and work on reducing my usage (ie. not smoking in the car/off the clock, etc) until I stop vaping altogether. As for the feelings I get from tapering off I’ll work on finding other coping strategies such as working out, chewing gum, going outside for cold air since its winter.

Tl;dr: been smoking since teen years, have a plan to no-buy on cigarettes and low-buy on vapes while working towards quitting and no-buys all together in 2025. Curious about how others manage their smoking habits and goals for the new year (if any).

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The laptop still works fine, but I was looking to get my batteries replaced. Its about time Right to Repair becomes mandatory and heavily enforced. Why should I throw away my laptop that is still more than capable enough to do what I need it to?

Seems like a lot of

I was also able to give a shoebox a new life. Will make it easy to store! As long as nothing melts I think I'll be able to reuse it for a few years?

Do not purchase products with low storage. They become very difficult to use in ~2-3 years.

I had an 8th gen iPad with only 32GB of storage. This was purchased from Apple in 2021. Yes 32GB of storage, in 2021. I finally had to replace this device for a new (Android!) tablet with 8x the storage. It was a painful decision because the iPad is still, fully functional today and still receives regular software updates.

Be careful when purchasing products where storage and RAM are soldered and un-upgradable. I learned my lesson the hard way.

P.S: This was my first and last Apple product.

Hi y'all the original reason I joined this sub was to get like minded opinions on the issue of plastic waste. I couldn't find the words until now.

I live alone and work. Every time I have to do the dishes I'm stressed by all the plastic containers I wash and stack up to dry. Living in this modern world I don't have time to cook every meal from scratch and many a time I door dash from nearby places. This leaves me with stacks of plastic containers and lids. It would be nice if I could recycle them all but I called my recycling disposal company and they only take select numbers. And even so, I hear that recycling is a fraud and not actually happening in this country at all.

I live in my grandma's house and she has a select stack of reused plastic containers from special occassions like holiday eclair boxes, and from the occasional takeout. In other words, she actually went out to eat and rarely took home food so she didn't end up with all these plastic containers. If I saved all the containers I used, I wouldn't have enough cabinet space left in this house.

When I doordash I almost try to avoid the actual restaurants, and try to stick to fast food like McDonalds or Wendy's cause at least they give us paper packaging that I feel better about throwing out. All of this is to say I feel like we weren't meant to live like this. I feel like my job demands me to cut corners in my life via ordering doordash.

Every time I have to wash and dry another plastic container I get so stressed because I think about the unsustainableness of it all. I'm using using using and just plain discarding. It feels so useless and futile. At the same time, I don't want to go Amish or revert back to the olden days because I want to participate in modern life. This is my little rant about plastic waste because it's literally on my mind every time I have to wash another one of these little containers. I hate the way the world is.

I am trying to avoid buying anything but grocery store food for myself the next 12 months. No eating out. No coffee to go. NO CLOTHES. I thought I needed new winter pajamas but found 2 pairs of sweat pants that I paired with 2 fleece lined shirts that still fit!

Im excited guys! My goal is to have 18k by next year.