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Nov 2018
9:05pm, 16 Nov 2018
3,300 posts
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run free
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Nov 2018
11:21am, 17 Nov 2018
120 posts
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V23
I'll be interested to hear how you get on, TM! It hadn't occurred to me to make my own, I might give that a shot at some point.
Thanks for the info on poppy recycling! I wonder how many people are aware of that...it's frustrating when decent initiatives exist but are poorly publicised, it almost takes away the point.
Speaking of awareness, does anyone here work in retail? I recently took on a part-time job in a clothing shop and I'm utterly horrified by the use of plastic. Deliveries of clothing arrive at the shop in large (plastic) boxes, inside which every item of clothing (including accessories) is individually wrapped in plastic. We remove the plastic, throw it away and hang the clothes up. If we have to send items to a customer, or to another shop (which happens multiple times a day) the items in a given order are wrapped in a new plastic bag and put in one of the large plastic boxes. Those boxes are stacked up on a wooden pallet and the whole pile is wrapped in plastic - literally metres and metres of it. Until recently, the plastic that the clothes arrive in wasn't even recycled in our shop - we do now have a recycling bin but it's not religiously used. That only came about due to the initiative of people in our store, so I've doubts about whether other stores are doing it.
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Nov 2018
11:26am, 17 Nov 2018
39,649 posts
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Velociraptor
And yet, I seem to recall from a discussion on this site some years ago, I am possibly the only woman who wouldn't think of washing new clothes before wearing them, on the grounds of "you don't know where they've been or what they've touched".
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Nov 2018
11:44am, 17 Nov 2018
4,243 posts
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TeeBee
Actually you are not defintely alone in that V'rap - I've never heard of that.
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Nov 2018
1:05pm, 17 Nov 2018
15,803 posts
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Carpathius
I've never heard of that either.
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Nov 2018
1:12pm, 17 Nov 2018
1,651 posts
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TomahawkMike
Nope. We don't either. Different if it's from a charity shop but then they aren't new..
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Nov 2018
1:20pm, 17 Nov 2018
15,805 posts
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Carpathius
I don't even wash before wearing if stuff is from charity shops. I can see why you would and it makes total sense, it just never occurred to me!
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Nov 2018
2:07pm, 17 Nov 2018
9,472 posts
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Garfield
? How odd...I would never dream of washing new clothes before wearing them!! I occasionally buy stuff from charity shops but don't recall washing them either!
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Nov 2018
3:34pm, 17 Nov 2018
2,946 posts
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Fizz :-)
I will confess to sometimes “washing the dressing out” of new clothes.
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Nov 2018
4:00pm, 17 Nov 2018
15,268 posts
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EvilPixie
Thanks to a £5 voucher at Lakeland I decided to splash out on these
£19 so down to £14!! But 3 different sizes inside. Hope they are good
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