Philosophy of sustainability, ecology, and common sense

For our company, this trend is a natural part of life and our daily thinking.
Thanks to industry and technology, the entire world has accelerated in the last 100 years to such a pace that makes it already clear what the consequences are for the environment and the planet.
Our goal is not economic growth, increasing the financial turnover of the company or getting rich…
Our goal is not to eliminate competition, dominate the market and getting listed on a stock exchange…
Our goal is to do our work to the best of our ability at every moment. It’s an imaginary goal that ends each day at sunset, when we go home with a happy feeling of a job well done, although the work is often hard and both physically and mentally exhausting, and it is born again in the morning when we are ready for new challenges.
Our goal is to work for like-minded people.
Moving and clearing out for over 20 years has allowed us to look into every drawer in many apartments and houses. Yes, we are bound by confidentiality regarding the property of our customers, and we comply with our obligation. But…
It allows us to see how the European society operates. Surrounding ourselves with things, hoarding things, clinging to things is perceived as normal.
The comfort that we live in is on a high level, yet we still long for more.
Human laziness and dullness often make us buy things we don’t even need, maybe only because we saw them is an advertisement or a flayer that lands in our email or mailbox.
The short-term happiness that buying a new sofa brings is fleeting – it only lasts until it gets dirty for the first time. The production and transport of anything today is done on such a voluminous scale around the world that it is beyond our imagination. The quality of things isn’t related to their price anymore, so we’ll happily throw away a high-quality sofa and get a new one that looks good but is of an inferior quality rather than fixing up the old one.
All of this is everyone’s choice, and it is fine until the moment when we can’t let go of unnecessary things. Sometimes we are not even able to give them to charity or donate them to the underprivileged.
Addiction to things is very closely linked to the fear of death.
Because that’s the moment when we abandon things and everything around us.
We can all agree on that, and deep down we all know it.
Part of every household consists not only of possessions, but also of food. We also move or clear out food. It’s strange how we humans treat it sometimes.
Let’s take home made compotes as an example. We grow fruits at our gardens and cottages, invest a lot of work into harvesting, storing, and transporting it, but they still end up in landfill because we have only learned to make and store them. This is a phenomenon with compotes.
Imagine a swimming pool with the size of 7 x 3 m and a depth of 2 m – such a pool could have been filled by all the compotes that our company threw away. Dozens of tons of compotes are dumped to the landfill…
We dispose many pantries and warehouses full of expired food on a daily basis…

What does all that that mean?
We humans are becoming lazy and selfish in a sense and therefore we think the way for sustainability is the opposite, will and diligence.
When we clean up, we always go to the trouble of sorting out what can be used and what can’t.
By doing this, we often recover old furniture, tools, fasteners, fabrics, papers and notebooks, mugs, glasses, and books.
We support farms, growers, communities, enthusiasts, small collectors, charities, antique shops and little free libraries.
We have a real soft spot for items made of massive wood where you can see the marks of the woodworker’s tools, and we refurbish them ourselves in the evenings during the winter months, giving them another chance to work again, whether at home or with our friends.
Our first reward is a good feeling.
But it also contributes to reducing the support for buying new things, often made by workers or children in terrible conditions and senselessly transported by sea and air.

The second reward, and the most important one for the future, is the quality of the air and the health of our planet.
Planting trees and cleaning up forests, streams and rivers is the least we can do, so we strive to do more, and above all we do it all for ourselves.