The other day Bethany told me about an Ottawa tv show called All For Nothing. People are selected to improve/renovate their homes without spending very much money. They're encouraged to buy things on kijiji, find bargains, and so on. The focus of the show (I think) is less on cutting down on things in the world and more on saving money but I'm still curious to see it. It also reminded me that I've been meaning to post a link to reality tv-show that someone we knew did for the Discovery channel in Toronto. The show starts with a large loft in need of renovation; it then teams Gordie (the guy we know) and another guy who are both good at raiding dumpsters, recycling, fre-cycling, and basically finding ways to resuse old things with a bunch of designers and architects. The camera tracks their efforts to do a high-end renovation of the loft space using mainly "found" materials for only $5,000. Here's the link: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/junk-raiders/season-1/junk-raiders-episode-1/#clip215922
On to Michal's sandals. The purchase of her sandals mark the first really unnecessary new purchase that we've made since we started this project. (Michal could, after all, have found used sandals). I decided to relent since Michal has been so good overall. She was really happy with her sandals (thrilled, in fact--the one plus of the purchase was that no-new-things has made her more aware of the specialness of buying something new).
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