New money for old rope: recycling at its best

After a couple of recent blips in my almost untarnished record of ethical shopping (actually, that’s an exaggeration – its just that I’m very good at justifying my unethical spends as essentials!) I have been rather good again. One of my unethical spends (which I was feeling guilty about) was a new pair of jeans which I have recently found out is likely to be one of my most environmentally friendly spends. Apparently, as jeans are so hard wearing compared to most other clothes you are more likely to keep a pair of jeans for years and years than anything else. Which is totally believable as I’ve still got jeans from 10 years ago and they were from a charity shop in the first place! A couple of my other unethical spends were totally justifiable too. I bought a throw with will give my old (second hand sofa) a new lease of life and will protect it from the chocolate that I have a tendency to drop on it! I also bought a coffee table but it was made from reclaimed wood and it looks lovely and old too – I just wish they would have told me what it used to have been! I will soon be tightening the purse strings again and going back to the charity shops. As Christmas is rapidly returning, way too soon, I’m going to need to save every penny I have!