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MSE Poll: What do you buy second-hand?

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Poll started 23 March 2021
It's cheap and environmentally friendly, yet some people think only new will do. Where do you stand on buying second-hand?
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Made one exception, however. When dropping off a couple of bags of donations, I spotted a leather coat that begged for further inspection. M&S real leather, my size, still with tags and clearly unworn. £20.
There was one dress in particular that was a particularly nasty manmade fibre that I loathed and subsequently cut to pieces following a how to on the back cover of a Jinty comic, I got such a high jump for that I don't think I landed for a week or two.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
from The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
And if you have any t-shirts that have EVER been in contact with sweaty armpits, please use them for car cleaning, even after washing. Charity does not want items of that nature. Hopefully if a charity does receive such awful things, they will just pack them up in big black bags and send them off to companies who recycle old materials.
Young people seem to want everything new when they get a house and struggle financially, but we started out with second hand good quality carpet and furniture from family and weren't in debt to the never-never or credit cards.