Realities of "Making Do"
After watching Robert Llewellyn’s “Making Do” videos about his year-long boycott against consumerism, I thought it would be “fun” to try it myself for a month. Well, folks, here’s the first casualty: broken sunglasses. These $19 sunglasses from REI have lasted me about two years and the screws have been coming loose off and on. Today I totally lost the screw, so I could find a matching screw… but I was quite tempted to just buy another pair. I was reminded by Jenn that I shouldn’t be so consumerific, so I just popped a paper-clip into into the screw slot for the drive home.
File this under “First-world problems.” 
BREAKING: Matt has kindly volunteered to fix my sunglasses. Woot.
Tags: cheap, consumerism, making do, robert llewellyn, sunglasses
July 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
… during which time I’ve broken, lost, became annoyed with, or scratched beyond use due to poor care or poor design 4 pairs.