Hard to find: what the shortages in household items say about how we live now

If you’ve been on a fruitless search for weights, a bread maker or a sewing machine lately, you’re not alone

In early April, fearing his hard-won shoulders would shrink into nothing over lockdown, my husband attempted to buy some weights. He spent hours searching, online and in stores, and found no heavy things to lift. Even on Gumtree, where you’d expect an enterprising soul or two to be selling home gym equipment at jacked up prices, there was nothing.

In the end, he improvised, filling a gym bag with 40kg of sand.

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