Shopping

We all know that we can save electricity by turning off lights etc.  In your last posts, some of you also mentioned taking your own bags to supermarkets, and not wasting food, water etc.

One of the biggest things we can do as individuals to help the environment is think about our shopping habits.  As soon as you buy something, that creates space on the shop shelf for another of those goods to replace it.  If we don't buy so many things, companies will have to wait longer before producing more of them. That means they use less electricity. 

If enough people stop buying unnecssary products, companies will have to stop making that junk altogether.  You probably disagree with me, but in my opinion the tamagochi is one of the most stupid products ever made.  Why would anyone buy that?  I'll never understand. Tamagochi = huge waste of resources, but it's only one example.

Please write about your shopping habits.  What kind of shopper are you?

For example, do you only buy things you need?  Do you buy things "on the spur of the moment" (= you never saw it or thought about buying it before, but as soon as you see it, you buy it).  Have you ever bought something, and only used it once or twice? Do you ever buy clothes at "used" shops?  Do you wear clothes until they are very old, or throw them away after a year or two?  If you decide you don't want something, do you just throw it away, or do you try to ask a friend if they would like to use it?  Do you buy small amounts of groceries at a time (so you don't need to throw anything away)? etc