Vinted etc.

 Going to try and start giving my blog posts titles again. Next step, photos. 

A couple of months ago I made a vinted account. It was for something specific, everyone I know had been singing the praises of vinted for a couple of years, and I thought to myself that I should stop being so stubborn and just avoiding modern stuff for the sake of it and use what's available. I think I made it because I had remembered a fleecey jumper I had years ago, and had hoped to replace it with one identical as I had remembered the brand, and I thought I have found it, albeit it in a different colour, but when it arrived it was a totally different shape and material to the one I had remembered - that's internet shopping for you. Since then, I have had lots of thoughts of 'oh I really want that, I'll check vinted', and by now I must have bought about 20 or so items, probably between 10-15 pounds each, so let's say about £250 worth of clothes. 

I never needed any of those things. Vinted is made perfectly to part you with your money, and of course sells itself as the eco friendly solution to online shopping because you are recycling. Unfortunately I think it probably just does two very negative things - one is that it parts you with your money very quickly and painlessly, and the other is that it makes people feel like if they are buying or selling things second hand, then that is ether virtuous because it is reusing, or it is freeing up valuable space in your wardrobe so that you can buy more shit from China. It's bad. There is nothing available on the internet that we genuinely need, and I struggle right now to think of anything that actually improves our lives in any way whatsoever. Everything that people throw at me to counter this is always something that already existed before the internet bulldozed over it. 

There's my two cents. I will be deleting vinted, deleting instagram, deleting facebook. I would like to delete whatsapp but find myself totally trapped in that it is the sole way the PTA, swimming and knitting groups are organized, but perhaps the day will come that I can veto that too and then finally throw my laptop into the sea. 

Today I am doing what I am always doing - having a tidy, With some gusto today though as at the weekend we visited friends who had a tidy, peaceful house, and I rather miss my tidy peaceful house now - I know it's buried in here somewhere.