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01/11/2026

Can you help us make the festive season more sustainable? 🎄🌱

We’re looking for donations of seasonal and party wear, including Christmas jumpers, for the Revolving Wardrobe!

We want to make it easier for people to find something to wear and enjoy for many years to come.

The scale of single-use wear during the holiday season is significant. Research suggests a large portion of seasonal and party-wear end up being used only once.

For example:

⭐ Research by Atomik for Oxfam found that 61% of Brits say they won’t recycle the previous year’s Christmas party outfit.

⭐ According to environmental charity Hubbub, around 12 million new Christmas jumpers are bought in the UK each year, with around a quarter worn only once before being thrown away.

🎄 By sharing and reusing clothes, we can help reduce waste while making festive clothing accessible to more people.

We will be putting together a rail of seasonal and party-wear in our Revolving Wardrobe (keep your eyes peeled on our social media for when it starts 👀). To put this rail together, we will need your kind donations.

If you would like to donate, here are the spots you can donate from:

📍: Lil Reuse Fair at the Fraser Centre in Tranent, EH33 1AF on Wednesday 11th November.
⏰ Fair hours: 11AM - 1PM.
👗 Clothing Donations open: 9:30AM - 12PM.

📍: Lil East Linton Revolving Wardrobe, The Mart, Haddington Road, East Linton, EH40 3DN (⭐ this option is for Members only, the sign up link is in our bio 🔗)

📍: The Old Castle, East Saltoun, EH345DY Cupboard at rear next to cars (Anytime)

Thank you for helping us 🌱

sustainableeastlothian

29/10/2026

⭐ Mark your Calendars! ⭐ We will be at The Fraser Centre Reuse Fair on Wednesday 11th November!

📍 Location: The Fraser Centre, Tranent
⏰ Fair Hours: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
👕 Festive Clothing Donation Drop-off times: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

All clothing donations are welcome! But, there will be a special focus for donations of seasonal and party wear, including Christmas Jumpers.

The Seasonal and Party-wear donations will then go to the Lil Revolving Wardrobe🎄

You can drop your festive-wear donations off at our Reuse Fair from 9:30 am - 12:00 am noon!

We will have alternative places to donate them if you can't make this date, just keep an eye on our social media in the upcoming days. Or, drop us a comment on this post!

⭐🎄⭐

25/10/2026

Pumpkin waste stats are one of the scariest things you will see this Halloween!

Roughly 30 million pumpkins are purchased for carving in the UK and a whopping 16 million of these pumpkin head for landfill. (Hubbub)

The pumpkins then take up to 20 years to break down in landfill and let off methane gasses as they decompose 🤢 (NEN)

That's why we’d love you to join Lil in our 2026 ZERO WASTE PUMPKIN CHALLENGE to use the whole pumpkin and nothing but the pumpkin! Here’s a few tips to help you on your way. And please share your ideas and photos – we’d love to see them.

1. KEEP IT SIMPLE
To re-use as much as possible, keep your decorations simple - avoid paint, glue and glitter (it’s full of microplastics).

2. EAT IT ALL UP
Pumpkins are a seasonal superfood. They’re high in fibre and packed full of immune boosting vitamins A & C as well as slow-release carbs. The fleshy parts are great for adding to most dishes, the stringy guts make great stock for soup and try roasting the seeds to make a nutritious snack or as a topper for salads and soups.

3. PLANT THE SEEDS
Scoop out, rinse and dry the seeds to grow your very own pumpkins next year – great family fun. It’s turned into a bit of a growing competition in our house! The Royal Horticultural Society say that they’re best grown from seed indoors in pots from mid April before planting out later in the summer.

4. TREAT YOURSELF TO A FACIAL
According to the International Dermal Institute, pumpkins are beauty gold! The fleshy part can help to nourish, brighten and smooth skin, as well as boost collagen and help tame the signs of aging. There are loads of mask recipes out there but we're a fan of the ones from www.onegreenplanet.org

5. TURN THEM INTO BIRD FEEDERS
Once you’ve scooped out the flesh, fill with bird seed and hang from a tree to attract a whole host of garden birds.

6. COMPOST IT
Once you’ve used up as much of your pumpkin as possible, compost the rest. Cutting the flesh up into smaller pieces helps speed up the decomposition.

And get your friends and neighbours in on it too. Post your pics here or post and tag us. Happy Halloween everyone!

23/10/2026

Swipe along to see how you have spent your secondhand Halloweens with Lil! 🌱💚

We have loved seeing all the different outfits you have found with us over the years!

Together we have 🫶:
• Swapped old costumes and found new (to you) ones!
• Found unique, one-of-a-kind outfits
• Saved money (UK consumers spent an estimated £510 million on Halloween costumes in 2019!*)
• Reduced waste and helped the environment (About 85% of Halloween costumes eventually end up in landfill*).

Thank you for all your support along the way! Let's make this Halloween eco-friendly and wallet-friendly too 💚💷

Drop us a comment if you want the link to our Lil Festive Preloved Fancy Dress Group, or to our Revolving Wardrobe Membership.

Lil
Xx

*Halloween costume research conducted by environmental charity Hubbub

20/10/2026

If you're looking for a Halloween costume for your kids, check out our Revolving Wardrobe 👑

From flamenco dancers to kings; pumpkins to ballerinas, there are plenty of pre-loved costumes to choose from!

Why do we promote secondhand costumes? 🎃🎃

Halloween costumes create a scary amount of waste in the UK alone. Environmental charity Hubbub recorded that an estimated 7 million Halloween Costumes are thrown away annually in the UK. These discarded Halloween costumes generate around 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year, which is equivalent to the weight of 83 million plastic bottles 🥤🥤

In the same study, Hubbub found that 83% of the materials used in Halloween clothing and costumes were plastic based, with polyester accounting for 69%. Polyester is made from fossil fuels, is non-biodegradable and releases pollution into the environment. Brrrrr talk about scary!! 🕷️👻

So what can we do?? We might not control these big corporations churning out Halloween costumes, but we can reuse what we already have! Because of your lovely donations, we have been able to make a secondhand rail in our Wardrobe where we can keep these brilliant costumes in use 🪄

We'd love your help keeping these costumes in use, so please come and check out our rail 🎃

Lil
Xx

P.s., To keep our wardrobe running smoothly, we have had to start a membership to cover operational costs. If you need a membership, the link is here: https://shorturl.at/r6JMk
A one-year membership costs about the same as a single Halloween costume! With our wardrobe, you can get costumes for the family plus a year of clothes & shoes for that same price! 🎉

16/10/2026

This , let’s keep our clothes circulating💚

Whether you are picking up or clearing out clothes at our Revolving Wardrobe, trading pieces at a Swap Shop, or learning an essential mending skill at a Repair Workshop, every little step keeps textiles moving and out of landfills.

Let's keep clothes in the loop, together. Drop a comment to let us know which of these three you want to try this month!

If you want to sign up to use our Revolving Wardrobe, the link is in our bio 🔗

14/10/2026

👋 Hello Lil Community!

We had an idea 💡 Why not use our brilliant community to pull together and share our local eco-knowledge!

Is there an item cluttering up your house that you are completely stuck on? Maybe a dress you want to repair, an odd material you don't know how to recycle locally, or something you want to pass on but don't know where?

👇 Drop your "what do I do with this?" items in the comments below!
🧠 To the rest of our wonderful Lil community: Browse the comments and reply if you know a local drop-off spot, a repair hack, or a great local solution right here in East Lothian. Let's help each other out 🩵

11/10/2026

Shoes, shoes... & more shoes! 👟🥾

We have lots of shoes in our Revolving Wardrobe!

We've got shoes for both adults and kids. Perfect for if your kid seems to grow a new shoe size every month!! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Fancy a pair? Come on down and have a look! You're shoe(r) to see something you need (sorry about that joke, it had to be done)!

To access our wardrobe, you will need a 'Revolving Wardrobe Membership'. If you haven't signed up already, the link is here: shorturl.at/HtoSn

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