I also began to build a list of people who could fix things if I personally lacked the skills to fix it. That's no mean feat these days. It's hard to find people who fix things. And often fixing something will cost you more than buying a new one. So I just repeated that mental weighting from 'new' to 'renew' over and over.
This renewed thing, I imagined, was more valuable and beautiful than a new thing, because it had been invested with human attention for longer.
5/ #eco