Fashion Recycling
In the wake of the Noughties: the decade of recycling, many of us are trying to do our bit for the environment. Remembering to bring your 'bag for life' on a quick run to Tescos is more difficult than it should be. But we can compensate for the pang of guilt that comes when the cashier produces yet another flimsy plastic bag that we'll save in our stash but never use.
Let's get creative. As we are already recycling fashion trends from eras gone past why not recycle our everyday paraphernalia of life too?
Open your mind (and possibly lower your standards of your own appearance) and your home can become a free of charge shop.
Think about it. After Christmas, if you have any seemingly obsolete plastic toys from a cracker why not transform them into a necklace pendant or brooch? Unless you are particularly unlucky, no one will have the same one as you. Do the same with nice looking beer bottle caps. While educating your taste buds with a new beer advertised by an interesting image, you also instantly have something to liven up a gold chain. Lovely.
As for present-wrapping equipment, if you have saved it for other present-giving occasions, by which time you may well have lost it, use it now. If you have a wedding, funeral or a formal occasion coming up, and buying something like a fascinator seems a little wasteful as you're probably not going to wear it again, collect any ribbons, bows and wire, tie them together decoratively and whack them on your head with a hair pin. Perfect.
Finally, if you're feeling adventurous and not afraid of the possible ridicule you might receive, keep an eye out for attractive plastic bottles. Once you have finished drinking it and washing it out, cut a slit vertically down the side, attach a chain or leather string to top and bottom and bingo...you have a new, quirky bag.
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