Consumerism

I try not to buy things brand new. Some things you just have to, like underwear and certain kitchen appliances. But most things, you don't.
 When I had babies I always bought prams, cots etc second hand.

 I had this vision of a factory with a conveyor belt loaded with prams coming out of the building and falling off the end of the belt into land fill. I can't imagine how much perfectly good furniture etc that is just being thrown away.

 So when I can, its second hand. My partner goes to op shops regularly looking for bargains. He bought me home a professional juicer for $10! Those things are worth $100's.

 Today we did the rounds of some garage sales. I've been looking for a push bike for a while. They are roughly $80 second hand.  Adam had picked one up for me from the op shop for $5 but it turned out it was a large girls bike, so it was too small.

 Today we came across this at one of the garage sales.



We asked the guy how much he wanted. He said "I dunno, what do you want to pay?"

 We stood there for a while contemplating.... He probably wants about $80 for it, we'd be willing to pay $50 but we didn't' want to throw a number out there. (Adam and I were thinking exactly the same thing).

 So I mentioned that'd we'd picked up a bike recently for $5. So the guy says... How about $5 for that and $5 for that....

 You want $10 for the lot??

 SOLD! And I can take the little girls in the back! They'll love it.