#(second hand)

[discoursets]

this was very comforting. 🕯️🤎

[vintagehomecollection]

Country Kitchens, 1991

[nyc-looks]

Bryant, 26

“I’m wearing a tee from a beach store in Florida, a silk skirt thrifted at Beacon’s Closet, and Steve Madden boots. My fashion is inspired by the music scene, films, and New York City.”

Aug 23, 2024 ∙ Chelsea

[maked-artyshenanigans]

"what goth brands do you wear?" Charity Shops, mate. Pre-owned and pre-loved, now getting remixed by yours truly 😎

[secondhandpull]

vintage 90s tshirt from kavespot 🌐 * 📁 * 📎 ⛧°｡⋆

[embroidely]

i am complaining here instead of in the Instagram comments because... non-anonymous social media are the absolute worst. Unfortunately, it bears repeating:

Vegan and sustainable are NOT synonymous!!!!!

Plastic shoes are never going to be more sustainable than real leather shoes!! Plastic clothes shedding micro plastic fibers are not more sustainable than wool!!! And by the way, wool!! is!!! amazing!!

Yes, eating less meat reduces your environmental impact. But you know what reduces your environmental impact even more?

Not wearing plastic as clothes.

[3v3ry0n3z-fav3-al13n-x3]

1 r3c3ntly g0tz 1nt0 2nd hand sh0pp1ng and 1 d1dnt r3gr3t 1t 0n3 b1t :DDD

[philosophors]

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

— Virginia Woolf, “Street Haunting”

[danaeanaira]

Dream lamp

[littlealienproducts]

Gingam Shorts w Pockets from GhoulWorld on Depop

[moodboard-d]

[nyc-looks]

Reveka, 26

“I am wearing my prized thrifted Italia polo that I think is magical. My shorts I thrifted in Philly and the cashier told me they were left over from the Adam Sandler movie Hustle that he filmed there. The Burberry trench I traded my Stray Rat New Balances for. My style is influenced by comfort, and wearing something solely because you like it regardless of trends I wish I could dress like a Victorian boy trapped inside of a beautiful woman’s body but unfortunately I can’t afford vintage opera costumes and love basketball shorts too much.“

May 18, 2024 ∙ Greenpoint

[reasonsforhope]

“It’s not every day that a municipal waste department spends more time thinking about saving things than dumping them. In Hamburg in Germany, however, there’s money to be made in the second-hand market, and who better to capitalize on that than the people who haul the city’s trash?

Stilbruch is the “IKEA of used goods,” and every day, collections from private individuals—or from trash collectors on their routes—brings goods which will all get cleaned up, repaired, and re-sold to support a more circular economy in the country’s second-largest city.

Some 400,000 objects are processed through two giant cavernous warehouses every year; everything from well-worn teddy bears to refurbished laptops and kitchen counters.

Launched in 2001 as an initiative from the sanitation department, Stilbruch has gone from having one full-time employee to 70, and from being a largely non-profit orientation to bringing in €300,000 to €500,000 ($330,000 to $550,000) per year in profit.

“These things are useful. They really aren’t rubbish,” Roman Hottgenroth, operations manager at Stilbruch, told The Progress Network. “Used is the new sexy… We are trying to stop throwaway culture and wastefulness. There’s so much value in what we treat like trash.”

Stilbruch contracts technicians and craftsmen who ensure that all used furniture is given a thorough beautification, and all electronics can be sold with a 1-year warranty.

The warehouse is part of a wider EU movement to try and cut back on all waste streams, but especially home furnishings and electronics. Chief among these efforts is restoring the “right to repair,” to consumers, 70% of whom it’s thought would prefer to repair items than replace them.

Stilbruch has been heralded by EU and German legislatures and think-tanks as a pioneering model that could be replicated by most municipalities.

Even small towns which don’t have the populations required to fill up a warehouse like Stilbruch can manage weekly flea-markets.

As for the future? Hottgenroth is planning to open yet another warehouse, and even to furnish public buses with mini-libraries.”

-via Good News Network, 3/1/22

[honeyandbee]

Which set are you drinking from at my tea party?

[realtightsweater]

The first pic doesn't do the amount of damage justice but I'm so proud of this

[artemisiamezzanotte]

Few things give me more of a thrill than finding messages in second hand books.

‘Dear Dan,

99p!

Love Tom

Xxx

- it was all down to you - your constant support - your tireless encouragement. How would I ever have done it without you?’

What was their relationship? When was this written? Why was the book eventually donated/sold?

What’s Dan and Tom’s story?