AOK Today #25 - Garage Sale Trail

AOK Today: Pre-Register for Garage Sale Trail

"The average person buys 60% more clothes and keeps them for about half as long as they did 15 years ago." - Greenpeace, 2016

How It Works: Straight from the epic website, "Garage Sale Trail is Australia's festival of pre-loved stuff, dedicated to helping you extend the life of your stuff and find the ultimate pre-loved gem. In 2022, over 300,000 Australians shopped or sold at more than 15,000 garage sales across the nation. Together, they extended the life of over 1.5 million kgs of stuff saving these items from landfill and maximising the value of all the energy and resources that goes in to making the stuff we buy. It's the circular economy in action! Garage Sale Trail happens next on 11-12 and 18-19 November 2023 - You can preregister now! Even better, sellers with a PayPal account can accept touch-free payments using PayPal QR codes without needing to exchange cash or payment information!

Cost: Free to sell (or money-making!). Your choice in $ spent (but think of the relative saving, and environmental saving).

Why I love it: It's the holy trinity: decluttering, making a little side cash, and a real life treasure hunt! Extending the life of clothes by an extra nine months of active use would reduce carbon, water, and waste footprints by around 20–30% each (WRAP). In 2022 more than 4 million pre-loved items were set free from cupboards, sheds and garages. #freethetip I say.

Happy Giving |XOX|