Secondhand by Adam Minter

(New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), 321

"...how little our stuff matters once we've let it go." (37)
"Let's be real. Nobody wants a fine oak dining room set anymore. And there are so many, and you can't get rid of them." (77)
"Fabrics labeled 100 PERCENT COTTON often aren't; and cotton-polyester blends often contain more polyester than the tag claims." (162)
No evidence that car seats actually expire... (198)
"I was raised tha the smartest thing you can do is buy a rich person's broken thing. The best deal you can negotiate is when the rich person doesn't know how easy it is to fix." (228)
Kyle Wiens, Atascadero, CA, ifixit (230)
Give cash or gift cards instead of things for gifts (188)
Solutions to put more into the secondhand economy: improve longevity and repairability of goods, buy longer-lasting items, view waste as an opportunity (190)
Preemptive Morbid Decluttering (PMDC): "I imagine myself dead and all my stuff chucked. Sad right? So better let go now, especially if I can see the recipient and know the stuff will be loved or used." (274)

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Created: 2025-10-13-Mon
Updated: 2025-10-26-Sun