No more stuff - take a shopping sabbatical

Tired of having your house filled with stuff you don't use? Fed up with buying things you just 'had to have' - and then finding that they lie about idle and ignored? Clothes you don't wear - books you read once - shoes that never did fit properly? Overpackaged, overpriced, underused ...

Feeling like you've been sucked into a consumerist maelstrom? Stop the madness. Stop buying stuff.

Following the lead of the San Francisco Compact, we are a group of friends in Melbourne who have decided to stop buying stuff - for a while at least. Now that doesn't mean stuff like food, or services, or medicines (or wine). It does mean stuff like books, clothes, appliances, CDs, magazines - stuff in general.

In the first instance we will be signing up for February. After that - who knows.

So - join the library. Give stuff you no longer use or want to people who might have a use for it. Or sell it on eBay. Swap things with friends. Save yourself money. And help save the planet.