{"id":221,"date":"2018-03-07T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/rural-environment\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:16:13","slug":"preparing-pass-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/rural-environment\/2018\/03\/07\/preparing-pass-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Pass it On Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycleforscotland.com\/re-use\/passing-it\">Pass it On Week<\/a> &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s annual celebration of re-use, Zero Waste Scotland guest blog on how we can all play a part in swapping, donating, sharing and repairing to help make things last.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a natural human instinct to hoard. We evolved in a world where everything was in short supply and where it made sense to make stores \u2013 squirrelling away the things we would need for survival. But, now we live in a world of relative plenty, our tendency to accumulate possessions has become something of an encumbrance and Pass it on Week is a great time to take stock of our stuff and move on the things that are cluttering our homes and, more importantly, our minds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iambecharlotte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iambecharlotte<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicBroth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MusicBroth<\/a> for helping us launch the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PassItOnWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PassItOnWeek<\/a> music amnesty <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJOvW4BV5S\">https:\/\/t.co\/zJOvW4BV5S<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lNWGZlqlgx\">pic.twitter.com\/lNWGZlqlgx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zero Waste Scotland (@ZeroWasteScot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZeroWasteScot\/status\/971391310434357249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese have a tradition of clearing out their homes at the end of the year and the upcoming Pass it on Week is a great chance for us to do the same and have a good Spring clean in the process. There\u2019s no shortage of advice on how to do this but a great starting point is to sort your stuff out into piles separating those things you want to keep, sell, donate and recycle.<\/p>\n<p>The art to loving where you live is working out what you really want to keep. The Japanese use a method called \u201cKonMari\u201d which involves identifying the things in their lives that \u201cspark joy\u201d and getting rid of anything that doesn\u2019t. William Morris had another way of putting it \u201cHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get all the information and inspiration you need to get involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PassItOnWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PassItOnWeek<\/a> by downloading our toolkit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dnkc4Smp4E\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dnkc4Smp4E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zero Waste Scotland (@ZeroWasteScot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZeroWasteScot\/status\/965946708881526784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It may sound like hard work but there is a silver lining (literally). Selling stuff can earn you serious cash and donating it can help others do good work.<\/p>\n<p>There are loads of places to sell your stuff and to make sure you get as much for it as you can, here are a few good tips. Remember, one man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure and you will be amazed what people will pay for your stuff. A friend of mine had an old leather army holster and thought briefly about which recycling bin it should go in but, after a week on eBay, it made over three hundred quid. Not bad for five minutes work. Another friend liberated a Flying Scotsman trainset that had languished under his son\u2019s bed for years. It made enough to buy his son a second hand road bike and inspire a young Graham Obree fan.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/52287882@N05\/11776745216\/in\/photolist-iWEU4j-cF1xE5-d2fV7j-ddn2DR-8xD75d-eAN4bF-9XMia2-8kW3QT-a9z6PH-a9C5kb-a9BER5-bJ2swB-a9Ui41-8kZe1Q-bJ2pHi-bv7BEG-bv7Lsf-nMxigG-8kW446-7Lq31M-3kf4P-9DML5h-d2fzu1-cGRBAS-q55wK5-f7KJKX-8kW3UR-8kW3Tt-8igj9h-6eFWwf-YFgFDm-8kZeaj-cGXgw5-8kZe8j-p5xyaZ-WoDWwR-62hTeF-5BCen2-ddmkRh-6eBPUF-6rKkb7-9pBEiq-9AqxV1-9pBDq1-9SniGx-4Ak9Fn-d85WrS-9LCsND-81n7Ud-9GAkv3<\/p>\n<p>Do a bit of research to see how much things like it are selling for online and where they are selling. Some locally-focused, online sites are better for large items that it wouldn\u2019t make sense to post while others give you access to a global market.<\/p>\n<p>Use great photos \u2013 you bought it because it looked great so make it look great for the next owner.<\/p>\n<p>Describe it in glowing terms. You loved it enough to buy it so you know what will sell it.<\/p>\n<p>Sell technology stuff as soon as you have replaced or upgraded it \u2013 the more current it is, the more you\u2019ll get for it.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s not worth your while selling stuff, there are plenty of other ways to find it a good home. There are no shortage of shops that welcome donations and the better the shop is organised and run, the better value they will get from your item so look for a shop which meets the Revolve standard. You\u2019ll find a local one on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowastescotland.org.uk\/revolve\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might also like to swap your stuff. Zero Waste Scotland are encouraging people to set up swapping events during Pass it on Week and there\u2019s lots of advice on how to do that and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycleforscotland.com\/events\/current\">where to find one near you<\/a>. They are a lot of fun and in the great re-use tradition, a brilliant way to find things that will bring you joy as well as getting rid of things that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps best of all is that, every time you pass something on, you are reducing the amount of new stuff that people are buying and taking the strain off the world\u2019s precious energy and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Pass it On Week &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s annual celebration of re-use, Zero Waste Scotland guest blog on how we can all play a part in swapping, donating, sharing and repairing to help make things last. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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