I’m not so secretly addicted to Vinted – the online app for pre-loved clothes – and have been busily buying and selling on it for the last year or so.

I love the fact that I get to recycle and usually get a brilliant bargain too…

Because of storage limitations, I have to have a strict ‘something in’ / ‘something out’ policy, otherwise my greedy magpie tendencies tend to take the house over and it resembles nothing less than a clothes strewn Armageddon…

Hand in hand with this is my new favourite toy – a fluff shaver..! It’s totally revived some of my recent purchases – which have arrived in reasonable nick, but for being covered in bobbles of aging fuzz. So I set to and shave away, emptying surprising quantities of lint away afterwards, when the deed is done.

And it’s just so satisfying… zizz, zizz, zizz, et voila! A garment restored to its’ former textile, tactile glory.

And today yet another Vinted parcel arrived… A pair of Vivienne Westwood shoes, which fit this Cinderella perfectly. They are SO me… I’m in love… So now I have to decide which pair of shoes has to be pared away, to make space for them.

So I have Vinted to thank, too, for being able to finally afford pieces by that unique, beautifully eccentric designer and I’m slowly building a collection. Now THOSE ‘Viv’ – pieces are not gonna be recycled just yet, oh no – they are mine, mine, all mine, and going to be worn on (and for) occasion… and treasured… and generally lusted over, for a long time to come 😊

So I’m wondering WordPress Wordsmiths – do YOU have a new favourite thing or obsession, too?