Using Less – Stacey Greenawalt

No new clothes

By Stacey | April 23, 2024

So my friend Becca Bilz Davis participates in an every-other-year challenge with her siblings: They can’t buy brand new stuff, particularly clothes. Thrifting is allowed, but purchasing brand new is verboten. She explained that they want to consciously get off the consumerism train, and not be part of the flow of brand new ‘stuff.’ She…

Using less in 2020

By Stacey | January 5, 2020

I’m not sure what finally clicked in my brain to make me hyper-conscious of all the single-use stuff I toss into the trash can without another thought. I mean, I’d been environmentally conscious, but only insofar as it didn’t interfere too much with convenience. But recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about human impact on…