Cash Chats

This month the charity Oxfam is encouraging us to stop buying new clothes and just shop second-hand in September. The reason? Well there are a few, but the environmental impact of fast fashion is right up the top. Around 11 million items of clothing are added to landfill every WEEK in the UK, while it takes 20,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans and a t-shirt (that's enough to keep a person well hydrated for 13 years!). Of course, shopping second-hand (or not at all) also has some benefits to your bank balance, so it's a great topic for this week's episode where I'm joined by two members of the UK Money Bloggers community - Hollie Hutchinson and Faith Archer. We discuss why they are getting involved in the campaign, how to find second-hand clothes, whether charity shops are more for women than men, and why it's not just "dead man's clothes".   FURTHER READING: The Oxfam #SecondHandSeptember hub https://oxfamapps.org/secondhandseptember/ Hollie's guide to taking part in #SecondHandSeptember https://th