Reclaiming objects with backstories is cheap, stylish, and good for the environment
I grew up in a home decorated with odds and ends picked up in charity shops, alongside family hand-me-downs. Being surrounded by items with backstories obviously rubbed off on me: when I moved into a house share at the beginning of my second year at university, most of the stuff I took with me was secondhand.
Alongside my new bedsheets and bike lights, I packed blue-edged dinner plates and floral cushions I’d found in junk shops, two massive fans bought for the sum total of £6 from a car-boot sale, tons of battered paperbacks from Oxfam bookshops, and vintage trunks spotted at flea markets.
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