"New" Can Mean "New to You"

How do people survive financially without reusing things?  I have often wondered how people who make the same amount per year (or less) than I do can justify buying everything new and throwing out their things.  How can they afford to do it.  Perhaps their accountants are better than mine?  (I don’t have one…)

My suggestion, and one that I lived growing up, is that you pass clothing on to people when you grow out of it.  Growing up, I got “new” clothes all of the time, and I’m the oldest child.  (Aunts and Uncles were very generous with their extra clothes.)  Weren’t these relatives practicing good junk creation?  I think the easiest way to make something “new” from something old is to give it a new owner.

What can I say, I guess we learn everything we need to know about junk creation before kindergarten: sharing is good, accepting gifts graciously is important, and making something out of nothing is fun and cool!