Do I Need That? 🤔

I'm going back to school next week (it's gone too quickly!), and I remember when I went into year 7, I had to buy a whole lot of new stuff. Now, looking back, I ask myself whether it was necessary to buy that pencil case, when I had rather old but perfectly good one at home, or those new pens when there were definitely some lying round the house. Well, I bought them and I have used them over the year. What I'm getting to here is - not just with school, but any time - you need to think before you buy something. 

When buying things for school there are a few things you can do when shopping for new supplies which are more eco friendly. For example; instead of buying a pack of two pencils, two pens, a rubber, a sharpener and a ruler or something, you should buy one big pack of pencils, one big pack of pens etc (preferably if they're boxed in cardboard instead of a plastic bag because then you can usually recycle them). And then you could put it in one old box and you can keep going back to that box instead of buying more. Another thing is, do you really need another pencil case? Like, pencil cases usually last quite a while if you buy a good one. The one I use has a huge ink stain on it but I still use it.

Then, when you buy just normal things, you can also stop yourself. For example, stop yourself from buying little things (which are usually wrapped in plastic) that looks cute or something😂. Sometimes buying something that is bigger is better, like buying a bigger bottle of shampoo that will last longer. My mum bought a huge bag of muesli in March and we're only reaching the end of it now. It's quite cool actually, how long it's lasted. 

Thank you for reading this post! I hope you liked it. See you next Sunday!

Violet

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