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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 21 > Consumer dropouts

Consumer dropouts

Daring to swear off new stuff for a year

By Nancy Visser / The Bulletin
January 21, 2009

The first time my husband and I pledged to buy nothing new for a whole year, in 2007, we were trying to be green and to reject consumer gluttony. We figured we could rough it if we had to.

Turns out, it was fairly painless.

When you have 30 sweaters, it doesn’t hurt to skip winter....

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