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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to reduce consumption, how often do you change cars? How much wardrobe items do you buy each year?  How many plastic toys do your kids have? How often do you update the decor in your house?

Stop buying stuff and try to only buy sustainably manufactured products. [/quote]

This is my first post in this thread.
Family of 6 (2 parents and 4 kids) in a 2800 sqf house (includes finished basement.)   Currently our older two have moved out (college) but we have lived here for 16 years--so the majority of the time it's been all six of us here.

Cars:  My current car is a 2013 model (given to us by an elderly relative that no longer drives--prior to that I had a 2012 minivan.   Spouse drives a 2010 model vehicle--purchased new in 2010.

Wardrobe:  minimal.   I buy maybe 2-3 pairs of pants, a a half dozen tops, and maybe 3-4 dresses each season.  I've had the same winter coat for 3 years.

Plastic toys:   Kids are too old but when they were younger it was almost all wooden toys--and not Melissa and Doug.  Most of the toys we bought our kids were from smaller family owned companies.    One of my favorite companies is https://elvesandangels.com/ and I've often posted this as a recommendation when people are asking about toy kitchens.

Update decor:   Like I said earlier, we've lived in this house for 16 years--we didn't update ANYTHING until 2020, when everyone else was doing home projects.   We repainted the whole interior and got some new window treatments.   Our current bedroom set is one we bought in 2004.   We bought our family room sofa in 2020, but the one we had prior to that was purchased in 2008, and the one prior to that was purchased in 1998.[/quote]

This is so tone-deaf and so laughably ignorant. Bragging about buying wooden toys when you had FOUR CHILDREN?  No amount of wooden toys purchased or your lack of new clothes can offset the environmental damage of that level of procreation. I am not an environmentalist, hell, sometimes I don't even recycle, but I abhor ignorance and am calling BS on PP.[/quote]

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