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From the DSA instagram 6 days ago:
If even 10% of consumers "bought" like I do the economy would suffer greatly. Almost everything I acquire was trash, recycled, repurposed, used, etc. I could show someone around my house and property for 2 solid hours showing off all the deals I got or created.
Just in the last week I've found in my hood:
I was building stuff yesterday with culled lumber from the hardware store, $50 for $1,400 worth. When I got home I helped my wife with a sweet curio cabinet she got for $35. LOL, it's huge!
tl;dr: I find it weird that people just go out and buy stuff new when there's so much free/cheap/used goods to be had.
I'm sorry, but it's likely literally impossible for this to be the leading paradigm for 10% of people. Maybe 10% would work but I think it'd already be problematic.
You have to remember that the only reason you got these things was because other people didn't need them anymore. Why didn't they need it anymore? Because they bought new stuff.
And you surely didn't get all these things from a single household. Many different households had to get new stuff so their old stuff became available. It's likely that more than 10 households are necessary to sustain 1 person that gets everything used, because not everyone buys new things all the time, and stuff often breaks instead of still being fine to use.
I personally would eyeball 1-5% of people could do this like you, but this is just a complete unsubstantiated feeling, a guess.
Good call. The greenest purchase you can make is fixing the thing you already own.