Comments on: Repair stuff, save both kinds of green

By: How to save money by spending more of it | Pays to Live Green

How to save money by spending more of it | Pays to Live Green — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:01:10 +0000

[...] I had no trouble getting a replacement seat cushion cover for my HÅG chair, so I was easily able to follow my own advice of repairing stuff to save both kinds of green. [...]

By: thomas

thomas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:04:46 +0000

@Daria: Yeah, that’s an important point – if you have to use expensive materials with a high embodied energy to fix something, it might be better to get a replacement instead. Luckily, most of the time you won’t need stuff like that for fixes :-)

By: Daria

Daria — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:20:13 +0000

That was a great idea with the eraser! So much better for the environmetn to fix things than to throw them away and buy new all the time. If you can fix them without using too much expensive, new matreials, that is – like a piece of eraser ;-)

By: thomas

thomas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:54:15 +0000

@Small Footprints: True about creative thinking. I’m fully convinced creativity can be trained, sort of like a muscle. The more you push yourself to use it (within reason), the stronger it gets.

By: Small Footprints

Small Footprints — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:23 +0000

Oh … that was a wonderful fix. One of the real benefits of trying to fix things before tossing them … a benefit besides the environmental impact that is … is that it really gets us back into a creative way of thinking … something that most of us have lost. And what a great feeling to know that we haven’t contributed to a landfill or the use of additional resources to get a “new one”. Brilliant!

Thanks for sharing!

Small Footprints