The Inevitable Corollary To Cheap living

In cleaning out for the New Year, both in terms of food and other matters, this writer has joined forces with others of the fast set to work on issues surrounding modern day's trend "fast fashion."

But as always this writer is looking at this modern trend through the lens of the trends of previous eras. In preparation for fixing the world, this writer did some research on historical recycling trends and found Millions From Waste by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot and published in 1890. While a bit of a tome Talbot make several points that this writer found meaningful and thankfully they were made in the first few pages!

Talbot first points out that "extravagance is the inevitable corollary to cheap living." While Talbot was writing about the horrors of the Industrial Revolution we, dear reader, are going through a second. But perhaps it will be the lessons of the first revolution that will save us from this, the second.

While "Treat Yo Self" may have become the motto of the modern day, can't we, dear reader, harken back to the lessons of the past on the possible repercussions of such a self indulgent sentiment? Can we look at the results of the past, those that we are still recovering from and adjust our ways? Let's, dear reader, start with this message from Talbot:

"Under such conditions the very fact that it is cheaper, as well as easier and simpler, to incur a further capital charge, rather than to endeavour to induce additional service from what is already in hand, though possibly slightly damaged, prompts waste..."

Stay tuned for more tips and tricks on how to recycle the old fashioned way.