It used to pain me, the way my parents and grandparents
labelled us the ‘throw away’ generation.
“It’s not worth replacing, it’ll cost almost as much as
buying new,” I would argue. Or “Don’t blame us, were the consumers not the manufacturers.”
But now as a parent myself, a little older and slightly more
responsible (!), I now discover myself agreeing with them to a certain degree,
but don’t let on.
Now I’m not saying every product built today is inferior to
those of yesteryear, that would be ridiculous, although quite why advancements
in technology and our so called increased intelligence do not allow the smartphone devices we urgently rely upon today to last longer than a couple of
years annoys me, but I guess that’s the point, intelligence has taught us that
we need to replace items frequently to maintain positive economical sustainment.
Confusing isn’t it?
Whilst I do find myself reluctantly accepting of shorter
product lifecycles, I am also instinctively becoming more attracted to older
and solidly made items particularly with interior and exterior furniture and
now more recently garden tools.
