Victoria Wood Quotes

I was brought up to reuse things.

I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

Nothing is wasted.

I don't really shop unless it's thrift.

You never throw away your work clothes. There is always something to do in the house.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.