I almost never buy my children new clothes or toys, yet I seem to spend my life managing a constant stream of clothes, books and toys - where does it all come from?
‘Don’t worry about it - you’ll get loads of stuff when the baby comes’ several wise parents told me when I was pregnant with my oldest son. I was pseudo-panicking about all the baby stuff I had to get in the next 10 weeks. This was ridiculous in itself - I once wrote a book in 10 weeks, I could definitely get my hands on a car seat, a Moses basket and a couple of baby grows in that time.
And then at the other end of our endless conveyor belt are all the things the littlest has finally grown out of, the stuff that we can finally clear out of the house… except it's all sitting in a giant pile in the corner of the room, waiting for me to sort it out. It’s a perennial source of guilt that I can never get round to it, another thing I’ve failed to tick off my to do list. Some days my fingers itch to chuck it all in a bin bag and march it straight round to a charity shop.
I know I’ve just described capitalist overconsumption at its worst. The sort of thing that’s killing our planet, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Participating in this merry-go-round of disposable plastic crap, more clothes than we’ll ever need and endless landfill is making the world so much worse for everyones’ children. But it’s a merry-go-round I can’t get off, and it’s doing. My. Head. In.
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