I am taking part in the collaborative Wisdom challenge to consider alternative consumer habits that don’t cost our health or the earth set by @ecotrain and @naturalmedicine.
In the middle of a field at Burwash Manor in Cambridgeshire with cow pats everywhere, once a month there is a “lazy car boot sale”. We occasionally sell our unwanted belongings and we love buying preloved goods, particularly for our children who get bored of their toys easily or outgrow them quickly. This means that we are reusing and recycling items and helping to keep stuff out of landfill.
In addition to preloved goods, you can also buy fresh fruit and vegetables, cakes and other baked goodies, surplus allotment produce which is often organically grown as well as all sorts of unusual and exotic plants.
When the weather is nice, it makes for an interesting browse for the whole family as you can find some really eclectic things and when we have sold items, we feel less guilty about being consumerists. At the end of the car boot season and during the spring, we donate unwanted stuff to the school’s jumble sale which raises much needed funds for the school.
Anything that is not worthy of resale is recycled or textiled so our black bin for rubbish is usually quite empty.
Thanks to @naturalmedicine and @ecotrain for this brilliantly conceived initiative, @fleur 🙏🏽