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BuyMeOnce Festival Guide: 7 Essential Buys & What to Avoid
As you slink back to your campsite, as the clock ticks past 3am, and as the last glory of Sunday night fades into a weather-beaten Monday... the last thing you want to stumble into is a half-collapsed, sodden seamed, waterlogged tent. We discover the dos and don'ts of festival going.
From Lightbulb to Smartphone: The Top 7 Built-to-Last Electricals
A LIGHTBULB MOMENT Have you seen The Lightbulb Conspiracy? If you haven’t, consider adding it to your Christmas film list. Maybe you’ve already had your fill of outrage for the year, but persevere – take a deep breath, absorb the information and you can always fix yourself.
Function, Fashion & the Future: 4 Sustainable Men’s Brands from London Fashion Week
This week saw the close of London Fashion Week Men’s and we wanted to take this opportunity to cut through the glamour and the endless celebrity and street-style coverage and hold a BuyMeOnce magnifying glass up to what should be the star of the shows: the product.
The Essential Little Black Dress: The Ava By Bianca Elgar
In our quest to galvanize the clutter free revolution, team BuyMeOnce has been obsessing over all things capsule. We’ve been poring over what makes a garment great enough to deserve space in our closets and, more importantly, our lives. Here are our findings: Said item must look awesome.
The Sustainable Wardrobe Part 1: Building a Capsule
Dressing in a way that does minimal damage to the planet can be difficult. Sometimes a sustainable alternative to our favourite product doesn’t exist yet, sometimes we’re tired and time-stretched and sometimes our budget simply cannot accommodate ideal-world ethics.
Things I Don’t Need
When I was growing up, accumulating things seemed like a right of passage through to adulthood. The choice between having and not having something was a no-brainer to me. You always want to have the thing. My constant refrain while out shopping with my mum was “But mummy I need it! I NEED IT!”
Care For & Repair Your Wooden Furniture
Wooden furniture is timeless and durable, all it needs is a little bit of initial TLC and regular maintenance so that you can enjoy it for decades to come. Cleaning your wooden furniture Cleaning wooden furniture is easy and low-maintenance, and you don’t need special equipment to do so. A good ole’ feather duster or a […]