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 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.
The Utne Reader described Raleigh’s work as “A 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.” Now you can save money and save the planet while saving your prized possessions!
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A quick and dirty guide (literally in my case, I thrifted this one and it is respectably beat and used) to preserving and repairing everyday items, the home, and food.
It’s sort of a first stop between me and internet from now on for minor house repairs and double checking fabric repairs. I don’t have the capacity for much of the food storage stuff (we don’t grow food atm) except for drying herbs but it will be handy when I start.
