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Create Your Own Gourmet Barbecue with 5 Timeless Buys
For outdoors aficionados across the globe, high summer means one thing: getting into the garden and firing up the barbecue. So load up your briquettes and call up the family; with a couple of canny purchases you can build the perfect durable barbecue set.
Putting a Ring on It: How to Find Your Perfect Ring
Choosing an engagement ring is a much more emotional rather than practical decision. The rings we wear symbolize so much and are the ultimate BuyMeOnce purchase since many of us wear our engagement and wedding rings our entire lives.
The Zero Waste Home: A Rubbish-free Bedroom in 7 Easy Steps
Initially, I struggled with how to make my bedroom zero waste. So I sat on my bed and asked the question: “What in here could have a toll on the environment?” The more I looked around, the more I saw. Everything we own will eventually become waste.
How to Host a BuyMeOnce Kid’s Party
A children’s birthday party is potentially one of the most consumerist events in the annual calendar, so what steps could we take to try and create an event with less ecological impact?
The Zero Waste Home: 11 Alternatives for Bathroom Essentials
Our lives revolve around convenience and cheap products wrapped in plastic, but at what cost? In this article series, I’ll aim to show that if each of us make small changes in our everyday life, we can make a huge impact on our waste production.
10 wedding gifts to love - ‘til death do you part
There’s something poetic about giving a wedding gift that could last the couple the rest of their lives - and beyond. Just as a marriage is a bond for life, so should be the perfect wedding present. This is a list of our top ten wedding gifts that could last the happy couple forever.
The Zero Waste Home: 6 Ways to Reduce Office Waste
The home office is a huge area where waste can be reduced, but many of these tips can be applied to commercial offices as well. Try making changes at work too. Most employees (and bosses!) love the idea, especially when they see the impact on a larger scale!
Make Your Clothes Last Longer
WASHING TIPS It sounds like common sense, but the first thing to do is to separate dark clothing from the whites to prevent colour bleeding. Garments often come with their very own garment laundry recommendations sewn into their seams, so it’s best always to follow the laundry recommendations.
What you need to know about leather care
Protect and condition - these are the two main things you need to know when it comes to leather shoes and bags.
From Trash to Treasure: 13 Unique Upcycling Projects
“Upcycle, verb: Reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original.” Reusing things is a surefire way to minimise the amount of rubbish you send to the landfill.
A Bike to Last Forever?
Thought experiment time: with realistic funds and resources, can you theoretically build an invincible bike? One that could last hundreds of years, used by great-grandparent, grandparent, parent and child? This week we spoke to Victor Duchêne of Auguste Handmade, the maker and mender that created Tara a “BuyMeOnce Bike.”
The Sustainable Wardrobe Part 2: A Capsule Case Study
The stalwart BuyMeOncers among you may remember that back in the autumn we tackled the sustainable wardrobe. For part one of our series we looked at building a sustainable capsule; for this next installment, we want to take it a step further (or several hundred steps… but maybe that’s just how it felt to me) by combining the principles of building a sustainable capsule and wardrobe de-cluttering in one terrifying experiment involving my very own shoe collection.
