Hello!

How’s your sunshiny week been?

Whether you love or hate the heat, there’s no question… we’ve all been hankering after a bit of summer, haven’t we?

And as roasting hot as it was yesterday, it was short-lived… and as of today, we’re probably at a more ‘acceptable’ level of summer and I for one am *loving* it!

Following on from last week’s Seven Ways to slow your Fashion shopping habits, I thought I’d try something new this week: a Sunday 7 Quiz.

It’s the age old, in the style of  a ‘Cosmo-quiz’ format, taking your most common answer (e.g. A’s, B’s etc) to give you your final result.

It’s tongue in cheek in terms of the final analysis, but the subject matter of fast-fashion is, as we all know now, a serious environmental threat to our planet…

The ‘tongue-in-cheek’ aspect is in *NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM* meant to detract from the seriousness of this issue, but it is, by design, made to try and make all of us (me included…) take stock of our own attitudes towards how we shop.

Obviously there are limitless questions, and I’ve only included 7 in this quiz, and perhaps there’s an obvious repetition / pattern to the questions & answers, but that’s the whole point… 

All of us often fall into the same trap again and again…

Time to get stuck in – I’ll share my answers with you at the end.

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Do you:

Drum roll...
Mostly A's
Time to wake up and smell the coffee - you have a little awareness about Fast-Fashion environmental impacts at the back of your mind, but as far as you're concerned, it's up to the government and shops to sort this out and don't see it as *your* problem. It is of course, all of our problem! Could do more to slow down.
Mostly B's
F*ck it - that's your mantra for everything in life and has gotten you into trouble in the past, whether it was just one more drink, one more pair of shoes or... well, just one more of anything! You really need to S.L.O.W. right down and pause for breath.
Mostly C's
On the Fence - you're doing pretty well at questioning yourself and have taken some baby steps at slowing down. This is great, you are definitely becoming a more considered shopper but there's always room to improve - carry on and see if you can't push yourself even further.
Mostly D's
Warrior - you're a Slow-down-Fast-Fashion Queen! You have already ground to a halt with fast-fashion shopping and taken a new path of more sustainable shopping.
Please answer all the question above :)

So, how’d you do?

I got mostly C’s.

{Which means:  “On the Fence – you’re doing pretty well at questioning yourself and have taken some baby steps at slowing down. This is great, you are definitely becoming a more considered shopper but there’s always room to improve – carry on and see if you can’t push yourself even further.”}

But then, if you read last week’s blog post… you probably guessed as much, right?!

I would love, love… like *reaaaaally* LOVE to hear from you this week, as to how you did in the quiz, and what you thought it?

I mean: do you think I’m making too-light of a serious issue?

Or, do you see that it’s kind of helpful  way (albeit an overly obvious way) at highlighting how ridiculous some of our attitudes towards how we shop can be?

I know I’ve made some right old, dumb-arse decisions in the past, some of which I highlighted last week… and some of which, were only in the very recent past.

But, I am making attempts to alter my mindset and change my shopping habits: it’s a work in progress.

I hope this has given you a little food for thought.

Thanks for reading.

Bx