We've been busy welcoming spring in our little corner of Adelaide this month by doing something a bit extra - embracing Secondhand September! Coined by Oxfam in the UK, the challenge was initially to encourage people to put on hold their spending for 30 days - nothing new all month - in order to curb... Continue Reading →
Photo by Rio Lecatompessy on Unsplash According to the good folks at GoodOnYou, Fast Fashion can be explained as "cheap, trendy clothing that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed to meet consumer demand. The idea is to get the newest styles... Continue Reading →
Photo by Artificial Photography on Unsplash If you're like us, thrifting has been in your blood for some time now. You were exposed to it and somehow, it just became a part of who you are. You love a bargain, but you also love the extra elements of what it means to 'thrift' or 'opshop'... Continue Reading →
Do you have a favourite memory of Easter? Is there something that comes to mind when this part of the year rolls around again? Maybe you attended Easter Camp as a kid and you have fond memories of games and camp food and good friends. Maybe you used to have egg hunts at your Grandmother's... Continue Reading →
Can you even believe it's February again? Doesn't it just feel like yesterday that we were ringing in the New Year and praying that it was a vast improvement on whatever 2020 was? Schools have started back. Shops have reopened. Summer is (usually) in full swing right about now and although supermarkets have put their... Continue Reading →
We've hit the pointy end of the year. Christmas lights are out in full force. Gifts are being purchased. Menus are being written. Cards are being posted. Christmas may look a little different this year, but it doesn't mean it's been cancelled. Quite the opposite in fact - if there was ever a time that... Continue Reading →
By now, you have come to know almost all of our wonderful volunteers here at Junktion! We have spent 2020 introducing them to you and showcasing a little bit of what they get up to each week, how op-shopping has an impact on their personal lives and what they hope that buying second hand can... Continue Reading →
https://oxfamapps.org/secondhandseptember/ September already feels like a world away, but we're barely about to farewell it. Spring was welcomed with open arms - blossoms sprung, rain fell, the sun shone brightly and school holidays quickly approached. But it was a significant month for other reasons too. #secondhandseptember might be a hashtag you rarely saw, or simply... Continue Reading →
We are more than halfway through 2020 - and who hasn't seen those funny pictures online claiming we're in the game of Jumanji? Yep, we've reached it - level 9. Play on, everybody. If you've been tracking with us so far, we've been introducing you to our volunteers each month. This September, meet Hannah who... Continue Reading →
