[SmithL]

They're welcome to my used skivvies, if they really, really want them.

[PeterPrinciple]

.....except food, health and safety items and underwear.

They seemed to not want to recycle their underwhere?

[martin_fierro]

About 50 teachers, engineers, executives and other professionals in the Bay Area have made a vow to not buy anything new in 2006 -- except food, health and safety items and underwear.

In Sillycon Valley, these count as "health/safety items."

[martin_fierro]

About 50 teachers, engineers, executives and other professionals in the Bay Area have made a vow to not buy anything new in 2006 -- except food, health and safety items and underwear.

...but they expect others to continue buying their goods/services.

[GSWarrior]

How special! I've got some used shoes and sheets they can have.

[Gingersnap]

I hate to break it to Shawn but I've never paid $300 for a pair of shoes in my life.

I never shop for recreation. I'm perfectly fine with buying a used ladder. I take my lunch to work. I knit my own socks (because I like to), I have a greenhouse, compost heap, and 2 dogs.

Whose treading "lightly" now?