Your Pre-loved Products Could Get You New Ones To Love

Arroon Gawalli Dec 22, 2022

We are often driven by our emotions. This emotional attachment gets the best of us and thus, getting rid of our favourite belongings becomes hard. However, we may accept it or not, everything comes with its own expiry. And there comes a time when we finally realise and put away all the stuff we once cherished because it is either damaged over the years or is of no longer use in our homes.

Moreover, trends change. Everything in vogue has its own timeline and new trends do the rounds. To keep up with the new wave, we buy the latest item regardless of their usage in our lives. Perhaps, this is common psychology in human beings to stock things unnecessarily for future use. Reality check though, if you haven’t used an item in the past few years, chances are high that you will not use them in the near future as well.

This mindset needs to evolve. When it’s the right time to say goodbye to our old stuff, we must discard them. We ought to accept that holding onto things without using them is only reducing their shelf life. Furthering this, it will not be left appropriate for anyone else to use it later.

If you are eventually dumping the old favourites in your bins post their expiration, why not sell them instead? The products that are just lying around in the corner of your room and haven't been put to use for long like old earphones or old laptops, or even apparel can actually be sold both online and offline. This will not only declutter your space but give you mental peace as well. These things can light up someone else’s world too. Therefore, selling these old products is the smarter choice. It is also an excellent source of making money to buy the new product that you had your eye on for so long! Isn’t it a great deal after all?

There are multifarious portals and offline stores that offer to buy and sell preowned products that you don’t wish to use anymore. You may receive money or reward points worth the precise value of your product. These credit points can later be used to shop the fresh stock at varied giant shopping portals. Globally, this concept of exchanging and selling old products is highly popular. Western culture has ample flea markets and online and offline stores entailing previously owned products. People buy these second-hand items from such places at discounted prices. It is a reasonable online and offline marketplace for people who cannot afford to have expensive items at their original prices. In India, it is yet to see the light, though. People here are gradually accepting the idea of thrifting and getting comfortable with putting them to use in their homes.

So, it is we who can be the new trendsetters here. We must wrap our heads around normalizing using second-hand items and discarding the ones that are no longer needed. This new year, get your hands on the latest items by putting out your old favourites on sale! Start swapping your old collections with fresh arrivals. Grab the latest materials with the help of several sites that offer to buy and sell old products.