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When I no longer have any goals…
Just recently I was reading a blog post about goal setting. And I realised that for the first time that I can remember, I have no goals. Which was disorienting. I do not know what I want to achieve...
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Store cupboard challenge!
I swore I’d undertake a store cupboard challenge early in 2015, and I got so motivated I went and started on the 2nd of January. We managed to demolish most of the luxury items in our cupboards on New...
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My attempt at a capsule wardrobe
I promised I would attempt to create a capsule wardrobe early in 2015, in pursuit of the trend sweeping the blogosphere, and so last night I got cracking. A few people have written their own rules or...
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Thrifty exercise in the city: 3 top tips
The danger of writing a post about exercise is that you could end up thinking either I’m really fit (ha!), or really focused on being thin. You’ll have to take my word about my decidedly average level...
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It’s Meat Free week! (we are mainly eating cheese)
Today marks the start of the UK’s first Meat Free Week. We have given up eating the stuff until Sunday. (It should, officially, be Monday, but my mother has a significant birthday on Sunday...
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My on-off relationship with shampoo
If you’ve read my ‘about’ page you’ll have come across my fleeting mention of abandoning shampoo: “…and while giving up shampoo is hardly going to balance the carbon books, I am trying to change.” I...
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My verdict on 3 months of the capsule wardrobe
Back in January I undertook the capsule wardrobe challenge: to reduce my wardrobe to around 30 items for 3 months (excluding underwear, sportswear & pyjamas). The idea was to simplify my choices...
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Tips from an expert declutterer
A few weeks ago I wrote about my (underwhelming) adventures in decluttering. And then a brilliant thing happened. A reader, who is also a PROFESSIONAL DECLUTTERER, got in touch and offered me a free...
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Ten positive lifestyle choices we don’t make (yet)
During a fantastic and long overdue catch-up with my friend Lucy recently (she of Lulastic fame) we started talking about how stuff you read actually changes how you live. And how so often it doesn’t....
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Adventures in cloth nappying
National Cloth Nappy Week 2016 has just passed and so this post is coming to you a week later than might have been useful (there are a lot of associated discounts). I blame the small children in my...
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