Socks

Here was my line of thinking....

1) I need socks
2) I want to get LoGOFF socks
3) I probably can't get second hand socks (I have decided that second hand is always LoGOFF, because nothing new is being used up or made specifically for me...and no one is being directly exploited in order to produce the product for me)
4) I bet socks made with fair trade cotton are super expensive
5) Oh...we have all those unmatched socks upstairs

In fact, we had two full laundry baskets of unmatched socks.  So, my mom and I spent a couple of hours playing the "sock game".  It's kind of like memory...."I know I saw the other one like this....wait...was it over in this pile?  Maybe we thought the match was navy blue when it's really black?"

Now, we have two full baskets of matched socks.  Also, my parents' room has only one small basket of unmatched socks left instead of two large baskets.

Being aware of living LoGOFF kept me from unnecessarily buying socks and wasting the natural and human resources necessary to make them.  I don't think of myself as a wasteful person, but I think being intentional about living LoGOFF has made me less wasteful.  Plus, now I have a great variety of socks, some of which are much nicer than socks I would have bought my self.  It's a win, win situation.