{"id":5478,"date":"2024-08-07T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:03:35","slug":"make-it-last-sustainably-and-affordably-preserving-what-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/make-it-last-sustainably-and-affordably-preserving-what-we-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An illustrated guide to clothes, food, and home<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love <\/em>is an illustrated guide to clothes and food and home. Raleigh Briggs bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably. <\/p>\n\n\n

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This book teaches you how to extend the lives of the things you love by repairing clothing, preserving home-grown food, and even repairing your kitchen sink and making your own soap. Briggs takes her longtime commitment to community building through the DIY movement and shares her valuable experience with the reader through a conversational tone in her hand-drawn and -illustrated guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Utne Reader <\/em>described Raleigh’s work as \u201cA forceful antidote to the cheapening of thrift culture: a meticulously hand-lettered, pint-size volume. When you raise your fist against the values that derailed our economy, lift this book in it.\u201d Now you can save money and save the planet while saving your prized possessions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on for an excerpt of <\/strong>Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by <\/strong>Raleigh Briggs<\/strong><\/a>, now available for preorder from our site or from your local bookseller. Out everywhere 10\/22\/24. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Want to keep reading? Check out<\/em> <\/strong>Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love<\/strong><\/a> by <\/em><\/strong>Raleigh Briggs<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, now available for preorder from our site or from your local bookseller. Out everywhere 10\/22\/24. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An illustrated guide to clothes, food, and home Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love is an illustrated guide to clothes and food and home. Raleigh Briggs bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably.  This book teaches you how to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,51,248,259],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-diy","tag-excerpt","tag-sustainability"],"my_excerpt":"\n

An illustrated guide to clothes, food, and home<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love <\/em>is an illustrated guide to clothes and food and home. Raleigh Briggs bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book teaches you how to extend the lives of the things you love by repairing clothing, preserving home-grown food, and even repairing your kitchen sink and making your own soap. Briggs takes her longtime commitment to community building through the DIY movement and shares her valuable experience with the reader through a conversational tone in her hand-drawn and -illustrated guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Utne Reader <\/em>described Raleigh's work as \u201cA forceful antidote to the cheapening of thrift culture: a meticulously hand-lettered, pint-size volume. When you raise your fist against the values that derailed our economy, lift this book in it.\u201d Now you can save money and save the planet while saving your prized possessions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on for an excerpt of <\/strong>Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by <\/strong>Raleigh Briggs<\/strong><\/a>, now available for preorder from our site or from your local bookseller. Out everywhere 10\/22\/24. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n

An illustrated guide to clothes, food, and home<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love <\/em>is an illustrated guide to clothes and food and home. Raleigh Briggs bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably. <\/p>\n\n\n

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This book teaches you how to extend the lives of the things you love by repairing clothing, preserving home-grown food, and even repairing your kitchen sink and making your own soap. Briggs takes her longtime commitment to community building through the DIY movement and shares her valuable experience with the reader through a conversational tone in her hand-drawn and -illustrated guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Utne Reader <\/em>described Raleigh’s work as \u201cA forceful antidote to the cheapening of thrift culture: a meticulously hand-lettered, pint-size volume. When you raise your fist against the values that derailed our economy, lift this book in it.\u201d Now you can save money and save the planet while saving your prized possessions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on for an excerpt of <\/strong>Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by <\/strong>Raleigh Briggs<\/strong><\/a>, now available for preorder from our site or from your local bookseller. Out everywhere 10\/22\/24. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}