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That applies to pretty much everything shoppable — furniture, home goods, clothes, appliances, shoes.“Sure, you could buy the very on-trend shirt at that fast fashion store and wear it three times before it shrinks or disintegrates, or you could buy a well made, more durable shirt from a retailer you like that you can wear for years to come,” Phillips said.

File - Andrew Klemenko shows off a Smart Counter Depth BESPOKE 4-Door Flex refrigerator at the Samsung booth during the CES tech show in Las Vegas. At the dawn of 2024, also known as New Year’s resolution season, there are lots of small, easily achievable ways to lead more climate friendly lives. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz, File)File - Andrew Klemenko shows off a Smart Counter Depth BESPOKE 4-Door Flex refrigerator at the Samsung booth during the CES tech show in Las Vegas. At the dawn of 2024, also known as New Year’s resolution season, there are lots of small, easily achievable ways to lead more climate friendly lives. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz, File)the ultimate financial burden is much lower than the money spent replacing a cheap vacuum cleaner, say, after a year or two.

, and also see whether you can give a second life to anyfor big events, and now I don’t have a closet full of fancy dresses I’ll only wear once,” Phillips said.

Also on her rental list: Reusable moving bins for relocating, instead of a towering stack of cardboard. The library versus the bookstore.

“If you look around, you’ll be surprised by all the rental services that are available now,” she said. “You don’t have to buy items that you’ll only use a few times before they get tossed.”King Charles III and Queen Camilla toured the show Monday before it opens to regular visitors. The king is a patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, which puts on the annual event in London.

The show is the place to see cutting-edge garden design, new plants and ideas to take home.The displays highlighted natural planning, like moss paving and gravel paths bleeding into greenery. One garden was an example of the Atlantic temperate rainforest habitat that once covered western coasts of Britain.

Charles and Camilla visited a dog garden and examined the King’s Rose, a new fuchsia-and-white-striped rose variety named after Charles in support of the King’s Foundation.Chelsea Pensioner Peter Wilson reaches up to touch a Punks head with a mohawk created with pampas grass, tropical blooms and preserved leaves part of Chelsea in Bloom by Ricky Paul Flowers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)