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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Why on earth is underwear even an option?? 🤢🤢Make £2023 in 2023 (#36) £2655.45/£20230
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annabanana82 said:Why on earth is underwear even an option?? 🤢🤢0
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Underwear-how vile!
Books only0 -
No clothes, shoes or bedding, thank you. Complex electronic things like TVs, unless very cheap, you might as well buy new and get the guarantee.0
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Having been brought up on jumble sale clothes, I vowed that I would never again wear second hand stuff.
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. £20.0 -
Silvertabby said:Having been brought up on jumble sale clothes, I vowed that I would never again wear second hand stuff.
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.
Food
Food for all is a necessity.
Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy.
Food is a human necessity, like water and air, and it should be available.
From Pearl S. Buck's To My Daughters, with Love.0 -
Don't buy anything second hand. Sorry, I just can't! If I can't buy new I have to go without. I do give stuff away to charity shops (NEVER ANY underwear!!) - sometimes clothes with tags still on that I've bought in sales without trying on that don't fit when I get home - but can't bring myself to buy anything. I know it may be crazy but there you go.Please note - taken from the Forum Rules and amended for my own personal use (with thanks) : It is up to you to investigate, check, double-check and check yet again before you make any decisions or take any action based on any information you glean from any of my posts. Although I do carry out careful research before posting and never intend to mislead or supply out-of-date or incorrect information, please do not rely 100% on what you are reading. Verify everything in order to protect yourself as you are responsible for any action you consequently take.0
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jon81uk said:annabanana82 said:Why on earth is underwear even an option?? 🤢🤢
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.Please note - taken from the Forum Rules and amended for my own personal use (with thanks) : It is up to you to investigate, check, double-check and check yet again before you make any decisions or take any action based on any information you glean from any of my posts. Although I do carry out careful research before posting and never intend to mislead or supply out-of-date or incorrect information, please do not rely 100% on what you are reading. Verify everything in order to protect yourself as you are responsible for any action you consequently take.0 -
I'd buy most things secondhand if they were in the right condition, but less likely shoes and clothes, though I used to used the school uniform secondhand shop. I make many of my clothes and would (and do) buy a length of unused material secondhand or unused or part cones of yarn to knit up. Recent secondhand purchases include vehicles, machine knitting equipment and old boats though the latter are usually "please take it away for me" freebies and the vendor gets a bottle or two in return.
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.0 -
I don't BUY second hand, I use Freegle instead and get things FREE.0
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