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Stay cool and spot clean: how to make clothes last by washing them correctly
Laundry cycles wear out fabrics – so try steaming, airing and slower cycles on the washing machine [or washing less!]
Laura de Barra
Wed 7 Aug 2024 02.00 EDTExcerpt: "Laundry cycles are stressful for clothes due to the agitation, heat and general chaos they must endure each time. A jaunt in the drum can lead to excessive fibre loss; dyes can fade and garments can lose their shape.
Instead of just chucking an item of clothing in the laundry basket at the end of the day, take a look at it. Does it really need to be washed? Allowing a garment to skip unnecessary washing cycles will instantly prolong its life.
Freshen it upFor gently worn, fragile or fast-fashion garments, try these alternatives to a wash.
Air it A good old-fashioned airing can do a garment the world of good. For best results, hang it inside out, outdoors, for a few hours.
Steam is fast becoming the darling of the laundry world. This method is low on risk and high on reward, making it essential for garments you love. Steaming will eliminate odours, freshen up fibres and, of course, remove wrinkles, all without the use of any toxic chemicals. You can choose from a range of appliances to fulfil your steam dreams, from steam washing machines to steam wardrobes. However, the most popular is still the trusty handheld steamer.
Spot cleaning Never underestimate a gentle spot clean instead of a full wash. For grease stains, massage on a dab of washing-up liquid. For protein stains, opt for vinegar. If in doubt, use a shop-bought stain remover [or not! Baking soda, peroxide can also remove stains -- test a spot first]."
Learn more:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/07/clean-clothes-washing-laundry-machine?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#SolarPunkSunday #Clothing #Laundry #MakeClothesLast #BuyLess! -
As much as possible (life happens;) this #holiday season (especially on nauseatingly hyped #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday 🤢) #boycott that #corporate garbage (#Amazon #Target #Starbucks #Banks #CreditCards etc) and wherever possible #thrift #craft #barter #swap #BuySmall #BuyLocal #BuyBlack (eg, on #SmallBizSaturday), go #CashOnly #BuyLess overall 🙌 #BlackoutTheSystem 🚫🤑 #MassBlackout
More info/events @ https://www.blackoutthesystem.com
https://weaintbuyingit.com
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://supermajority.com -
As much as possible (life happens;) this #holiday season (especially on nauseatingly hyped #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday 🤢) #boycott that #corporate garbage (#Amazon #Target #Starbucks #Banks #CreditCards etc) and wherever possible #thrift #craft #barter #swap #BuySmall #BuyLocal #BuyBlack (eg, on #SmallBizSaturday), go #CashOnly #BuyLess overall 🙌 #BlackoutTheSystem 🚫🤑 #MassBlackout
More info/events @ https://www.blackoutthesystem.com
https://weaintbuyingit.com
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
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As much as possible (life happens;) this #holiday season (especially on nauseatingly hyped #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday 🤢) #boycott that #corporate garbage (#Amazon #Target #Starbucks #Banks #CreditCards etc) and wherever possible #thrift #craft #barter #swap #BuySmall #BuyLocal #BuyBlack (eg, on #SmallBizSaturday), go #CashOnly #BuyLess overall 🙌 #BlackoutTheSystem 🚫🤑 #MassBlackout
More info/events @ https://www.blackoutthesystem.com
https://weaintbuyingit.com
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://supermajority.com -
As much as possible (life happens;) this #holiday season (especially on nauseatingly hyped #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday 🤢) #boycott that #corporate garbage (#Amazon #Target #Starbucks #Banks #CreditCards etc) and wherever possible #thrift #craft #barter #swap #BuySmall #BuyLocal #BuyBlack (eg, on #SmallBizSaturday), go #CashOnly #BuyLess overall 🙌 #BlackoutTheSystem 🚫🤑 #MassBlackout
More info/events @ https://www.blackoutthesystem.com
https://weaintbuyingit.com
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://supermajority.com -
As much as possible (life happens;) this #holiday season (especially on nauseatingly hyped #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday 🤢) #boycott that #corporate garbage (#Amazon #Target #Starbucks #Banks #CreditCards etc) and wherever possible #thrift #craft #barter #swap #BuySmall #BuyLocal #BuyBlack (eg, on #SmallBizSaturday), go #CashOnly #BuyLess overall 🙌 #BlackoutTheSystem 🚫🤑 #MassBlackout
More info/events @ https://www.blackoutthesystem.com
https://weaintbuyingit.com
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://supermajority.com -
@Dennis5891 I know. The trend is #BuyNothing or #BuyLess to keep stuff from ending up in landfills, but the article is making it out to be "financial advice".
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#NewBook
Less - Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier. by Patrick Granthttps://www.waterstones.com/book/less/patrick-grant/9780008663971
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I saved $36,000 by not buying anything new – here are seven reasons you should do the same
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/apr/24/how-to-not-buy-new-things
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So, in other news, this week's #SolarPunkSunday will focus on #Rewilding -- especially #GuerillaGardening! Also, #RepairCafes and #LibraryOfThings (because #LibrariesRule despite budget cuts. Every week should #LibraryWeek!)
#ReduceReuseRepair! #BuyLess! #FixIt! #Borrow! #Share! -
So, in other news, this week's #SolarPunkSunday will focus on #Rewilding -- especially #GuerillaGardening! Also, #RepairCafes and #LibraryOfThings (because #LibrariesRule despite budget cuts. Every week should #LibraryWeek!)
#ReduceReuseRepair! #BuyLess! #FixIt! #Borrow! #Share! -
So, in other news, this week's #SolarPunkSunday will focus on #Rewilding -- especially #GuerillaGardening! Also, #RepairCafes and #LibraryOfThings (because #LibrariesRule despite budget cuts. Every week should #LibraryWeek!)
#ReduceReuseRepair! #BuyLess! #FixIt! #Borrow! #Share! -
So, in other news, this week's #SolarPunkSunday will focus on #Rewilding -- especially #GuerillaGardening! Also, #RepairCafes and #LibraryOfThings (because #LibrariesRule despite budget cuts. Every week should #LibraryWeek!)
#ReduceReuseRepair! #BuyLess! #FixIt! #Borrow! #Share! -
So, in other news, this week's #SolarPunkSunday will focus on #Rewilding -- especially #GuerillaGardening! Also, #RepairCafes and #LibraryOfThings (because #LibrariesRule despite budget cuts. Every week should #LibraryWeek!)
#ReduceReuseRepair! #BuyLess! #FixIt! #Borrow! #Share! -
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#Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.
By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022
Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.
"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.
"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet
"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.
"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.
"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.
"Improve #PublicServices. It is necessary to ensure universal access to high-quality #HealthCare, #Education, #Housing, transportation, Internet, #RenewableEnergy and nutritious food. #UniversalPublicServices can deliver strong social outcomes without high levels of resource use.
"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.
"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.
"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.
"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."
Read more:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-xArchived version:
https://archive.ph/AtJ87
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #HybridWork #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #RightToRepair #ProtectMotherEarth #CorporateColonialism #BuyLess #BuyNothing #LibraryOfThings #SolarPunkSunday -
While I applaud all efforts to resist Amazon, this does seem like a bit of nimby-ism. To really send a message, they need to stop buying so much from Amazon!
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Counting down to #SolarPunkSunday
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Well then, 'tis the #SeedSwap season! So I'll be highlighting those resources as well on #SolarPunkSunday !
#Gardening #Permaculture #sustainability #Degrowth #GrowYourOwn #SeedSwapping #Anticapitalism #FoodSecurity #BuyLess #BuildingCommunity -
So, I think that for this week's #SolarPunkSunday, I'll be focusing on #RepairCafes, #RightToRepair and #DIY stuff, and will touch upon a few other #Solarpunk topics. I hope folks will join myself and others, while we share ideas and resources!
#Rewilding #RewildingWins #Gardening #Permaculture #sustainability #Degrowth #Anticapitalism #FixIt #BuyLess -
Another thing I was going to buy and didn't: Arcane: League of Legends - Season One Limited Edition Steelbook [4K] [4K UHD] : Various: Movies & TV
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This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.
Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...
#buynothing #buyless #reuse #share #borrow #upcycle #appreciation #wasteavoidance #repair #repairability
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This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.
Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...
#buynothing #buyless #reuse #share #borrow #upcycle #appreciation #wasteavoidance #repair #repairability
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This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.
Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...
#buynothing #buyless #reuse #share #borrow #upcycle #appreciation #wasteavoidance #repair #repairability
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This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.
Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...
#buynothing #buyless #reuse #share #borrow #upcycle #appreciation #wasteavoidance #repair #repairability
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This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.
Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...
#buynothing #buyless #reuse #share #borrow #upcycle #appreciation #wasteavoidance #repair #repairability
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Exhausted from the rising cost of living in the United States and nonstop ads, some young adults on TikTok are pushing for a more frugal lifestyle called "underconsumption core." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/12/world/society/underconsumption-core-trends-tiktok/ #worldnews #society #tiktok #socialmedia #sustainability #underconsumption #buyless #genz #millennial
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It has been 68 days since my last purchase on #Amazon
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Just do the right thing an #CancelAmazon completely. They are an environmental disaster and are ruining local stores. You likely don’t really need most of the garbage you’re buying anyway. Pay a little more and wait a little longer to support the companies who make your products.
#BuyLess
#BuyLocal
#BuyFromManufacturer
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Just do the right thing an #CancelAmazon completely. They are an environmental disaster and are ruining local stores. You likely don’t really need most of the garbage you’re buying anyway. Pay a little more and wait a little longer to support the companies who make your products.
#BuyLess
#BuyLocal
#BuyFromManufacturer
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Just do the right thing an #CancelAmazon completely. They are an environmental disaster and are ruining local stores. You likely don’t really need most of the garbage you’re buying anyway. Pay a little more and wait a little longer to support the companies who make your products.
#BuyLess
#BuyLocal
#BuyFromManufacturer
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Just do the right thing an #CancelAmazon completely. They are an environmental disaster and are ruining local stores. You likely don’t really need most of the garbage you’re buying anyway. Pay a little more and wait a little longer to support the companies who make your products.
#BuyLess
#BuyLocal
#BuyFromManufacturer
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Just do the right thing an #CancelAmazon completely. They are an environmental disaster and are ruining local stores. You likely don’t really need most of the garbage you’re buying anyway. Pay a little more and wait a little longer to support the companies who make your products.
#BuyLess
#BuyLocal
#BuyFromManufacturer
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【 We have oceans of waste. Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: https://buff.ly/39H6cqB. We need to do better.
Use less, buy less, waste less.
#Useless #WasteLess #BuyLess #ActOnClimate #climate 】
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https://x.com/mikehudema/status/1717930184848920798?s=12 -
@impermanen_ @JeffAndDonkeys Somehow, people need to realize that they really don’t need all that stuff. It’s not improving their lives. In fact, just the opposite. First step is to cancel your Amazon account. If you can’t buy it locally or from the original manufacturer, you likely don’t need it.
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【 We have oceans of waste. Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: https://buff.ly/39H6cqB. We need to do better.
Use less, buy less, waste less.
#Useless #WasteLess #BuyLess #ActOnClimate #climate 】
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https://twitter.com/mikehudema/status/1672221498159898625?s=12&t=gRwDVaatTrdezkSC9YCthg -
Personal finance writer Andrew Hallam is a real treasure! I was so happy to hear him speak in person a few years back. Here is his big tip on how to help the environment.
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It's a hard balance between getting rid of fossil fuel powered machinery and vehicles and buying *new stuff that is electric, mostly plastic encased and is made in countries a long way from here. The first thing to think about is using LESS energy all around and buy less stuff. I did get an electric mower a while back because letting the yard get tall and dry in these fire summers is a bad idea. But, I am also constantly finding ways of using up that space to grow food. I have no native top soil, just rocky grit so I build raised beds everywhere. One area in my yard has a whole bunch of clay type soil that a neighbour was getting rid of many years ago. It became a base for building fertile soil but it's the only spot that has any. That doesn't mean the weeds don't grow in the rest, they grow everywhere. Couch grass is the main culprit. Some weeds are useful medicinals and pollinators: dandelions, plantain, and mullein. There is a bad patch of invasives: blackberries, tansy and mint. I pick as many berries as I can, pick and dry the mint for tea, and dry the tansy to use in the bee smoker. But there is still far too much. Chopping it back (with a machete) every year before it goes to seed seems to help it from spreading. I'm constantly searching for new ways to use less engine powered machinery and more hand powered tools. And keeping the peace and the silence.
#BuyLess #homesteading #conservation #invasives #gardening #SmallFarm #GrowFood #CountryLiving
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Not quite sure WHAT in my search history led Amazon to believe that I would be interested in buying a lifelike set of silicone feet but I'm afraid I will have to pass on this incredible offer.
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Thanks to the online shopping skills of my beautiful partner, we've scored a huge, cheap second hand bulk set of Lego Duplo pieces on Trade Me.
The toddler will love this present. We'll build so many rockets and robots!
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