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The more things we keep producing the more we keep escaluting the amount we hurt our environment and consume resources which we really don’t need to.  Though you might be one of those people that believing that if someone owned an item before you, then it’s useless.  You’ll go on buying new things, when there are so many used things available at better prices which work often as good as new.  You might believe that since something is used it has somehow been tainted by the previous owner.

The Material Fantasy World

Whenever we take a walk in the local shopping center we are told, buy, buy, buy, it’s on sale!  We need to have the latest, the greatest, it will simply make our lives better. But, how many times did buying the lastest and greatest really improve your life?  I remember how great the Wii was when we first got it… But what happens after a week or two?  It gets old.  It might even become another collection to the already growing basement of stuff that collects.

Give your treasures away

Rather than hording the goods, why not give them out, for free maybe?   Sure we’ve bought stuff, it seemed fun, then we got tired of it.  Instead of offering your goods to the garbage gods, why not make an offering to the free board on craigslist?

Another negative to buying lots of new stuff and giving into the it’s new so its better mentality is our garbage waste pileups.  The more we can reuse what we already have, the less junk that keeps filling up those landfills…

conclusion… Buying Used is Far Better for Everyone

A perfect fitting saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.