Brands built to last a lifetime are the key to consumer karma

Author and founder of the BuyMeOnce website Tara Button was a shopaholic until she fell in love with a Le Creuset pot. Now disposable is a dirty wordForget retail therapy. It’s so yesterday. Avoiding frequent visits to the shops is a better way to serenity, claims a book published this week, which offers a step-by-step guide to resisting a system it says is trying to make us “broke and lonely”.Tara Button has written A Life Less Throwaway because, she says: “Our lives hav