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Most shops are just landfill waiting to happen.

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SummerDaytoNight · 13/04/2025 10:47

I mean, all are to a point, but I’m talking about the non essential ones.

Our society is engineering its own collapse. We only need food, health, house basics and clothing. And I suppose, technology.

Fast fashion could go. Housing should just be the essentials.

My friend took me into a shop called sostrene grene. It was lovely, but nothing was essential. Most shops are like that.

The horse has bolted, but I wish we could limit the unnecessarily stuff and just have the basics. Im not talking Amish level, but there’s no need for all this waste. It would be so much better if only the essentials were produced.

At the point of production, it’s already basically landfill.

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SnoozingFox · 20/04/2025 10:59

And that's the crux of it. There is the demand for this shite so companies will keep churning it out. So depressing.

Badbadbunny · 20/04/2025 10:54

wombat15 · 20/04/2025 09:54

They might start flooding other countries with more volume though.

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They’d already do it if there was demand.

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Us spending money on imports worsens the trade deficit and increases the national debt.

wombat15 · 20/04/2025 09:54

Stickortwigs · 19/04/2025 23:25

Trump is doing some of that. Crazy times for the economy but I can’t help wondering if some of the Temu / Shein volumes reduce it would be a silver lining.

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They might start flooding other countries with more volume though.

XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 23:36

@MyNameOrNot so again, where am I allowed to shop? I am waiting.
And then tell me why you are allowed to dictate that

XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 23:31

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I wear new... from Primark lol and you call me a snob?
Fucking hell, do you even know what Primark is? it is not something you see on catwalks.
I have a lot of second hand clothing too. I make do and mend. Do you?

MyNameOrNot · 19/04/2025 23:29

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Stickortwigs · 19/04/2025 23:25

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 13/04/2025 10:54

I certainly think the fast fashion companies ought to be taxed out of the market. Unnecessary rubbish.

Trump is doing some of that. Crazy times for the economy but I can’t help wondering if some of the Temu / Shein volumes reduce it would be a silver lining.

XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 23:21

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I am happy with my choices. It seems you are not, and you feel the need to come on here and berate me for them. Why? It does not affect you at all.
I am comfortable, clothed, and it is within my budget. If you take umbrage with that, then you are the snob.

MyNameOrNot · 19/04/2025 23:19

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So you would buy second hand underwear? I wouldn't.
I do not have the time or energy to be going round charity shops all day to find bobbly Primark clothing that is priced more than it is new.

So, please tell me where I am allowed to shop?
I used to have an awful online shopping addiction. Think 50 or so parcels each week. I had therapy and weaned myself off that. I very rarely shop online now. For me, cash is the way I budget. I shop in Primark because I like the basics, and it meets my needs. My body is covered up.

I am no snob. Can't afford to be one on UC.

MyNameOrNot · 19/04/2025 23:00

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ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 19/04/2025 22:39

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Woah, @MyNameOrNot that‘s uncalled for. This is an abstract discussion not a pile on on Xeno!

XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 22:37

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 19/04/2025 22:36

Jeeper's xeno you've had a rough old time of it on this thread.
It's so easy to go from a have to a have not in this country.
All it takes is the right set of bad circumstances to play out.

Yep, I went from a have to, to a have not.
It could happen to anyone on this thread. Stay humble.

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 19/04/2025 22:36

Jeeper's xeno you've had a rough old time of it on this thread.
It's so easy to go from a have to a have not in this country.
All it takes is the right set of bad circumstances to play out.

XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 22:31

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I had better clothing when I was with my ex-partner. He was totally ashamed of Primark, Lidl etc. He would only shop in Waitrose for groceries, and places like All Saints for the basics. He was the breadwinner, and he bought my clothing. Enough of a backstory for you?

I literally don't care about what brand is on what I wear. I just want it to feel nice, fit well and be in my budget. Primark ticks those boxes for me (as does supermarket brand... I do like the leggings from Sainsburys too).

I might be on UC, but I am still entitled to things I like and that are new. Is that so hard to understand?

MyNameOrNot · 19/04/2025 22:26

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XenoBitch · 19/04/2025 22:18

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My entitlement?

What do you mean? Or are you so privileged you can't see that some of us can't afford nice new things... we have to settle for the cheap things. We are still allowed to have new.

It is weird I am somehow to blame for the ills the planet suffers because I shop in Primark... yet if I buy a bundle of used Primark on Vinted, it is ok? Fucking mad.

MyNameOrNot · 19/04/2025 22:14

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exnavy · 19/04/2025 20:36

you are absolutly correct as a man.I tend to see the dynamic between shops and dump as someone reversed the suction and filled up the shops. as a thought
really what we think we need as against what we really need is really at odds

Arran2024 · 19/04/2025 18:51

A new shop has opened in my town - Miniso, "a design led lifestyle store for all the family". Full of Hello Kitty and Disney themed tat. Sadly my adult daughter has special needs and loves this stuff. It is already piling up in her bedroom.

ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 19/04/2025 18:32

We went to Home Bargains the other day and there were these spinning LED lights on plastic stalks that we had once bought - I know,I know - at the local Gala Day for inflated prices only to have them stop functioning within about a month. Kids started wailing and asking me to buy them. I just had to say no. i feel that’s what OP was trying to get at.

wombat15 · 19/04/2025 18:25

ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 19/04/2025 18:16

Charity shops can’t sell all the tat and crap they get dumped on them. It goes to landfill or is dumped in developing countries.

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ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 19/04/2025 18:16

Charity shops can’t sell all the tat and crap they get dumped on them. It goes to landfill or is dumped in developing countries.