Reviews & Articles
Shedding light on the most durable (and shoddy) products. Read our independent reviews, advice on living a calmer, less wasteful life, plus the latest news about our mission to end throwaway culture.
Sustainable Sleepwear and Cosy Bedtime Products
This article contains the most sustainable and long lasting products we’ve found to help promote a cosy, comfortable bedtime. Whether that is super soft and sustainable sleepwear, or items to making your bedroom a cosy nest, you won’t be able to wait to crawl into bed.
Marie Kondo will not save us
Decluttering is just one step in curing our sick relationship with stuff, and it may be the easiest step to tackle. What the Marie Kondo method doesn’t address is the reason our homes became cluttered. Here's what you can do to tackle this issue.
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Investing in Activewear
If you’re looking to invest in high quality gym gear that is going to last, there is more to consider than pure durability. A drawer full of beautiful, expensive but unworn fitness gear is just as bad a guilt-trip as the unused gym membership eroding your bank balance each month. In both cases the key to success is trying to figure out what will work best for you before you splash any cash. This article is all about tips for picking pieces that will serve you best, pitfalls to avoid, and practical things to look out for in the pieces you choose. Here’s to a fitness routine that can last beyond January!
6 Products and Honest Tips for a Low-Waste, Healthy Period
Women were happily using reusable cloth pads for centuries until certain companies began touting the idea that throwaway products were more “sanitary.” Whilst periods are many things – painful, emotional, hugely inconvenient – they’re the most natural thing in the world. Conversely, throwaway sanitary towels are often made using plastic that won’t biodegrade and nasty chemicals to make them smell nicer.
10 Tips for a Mindful Year: How to beat stress, anxiety and clutter in 2019
New Year is the perfect time to draw a line in the sand. It’s time to regroup so that 2019 can become your best year yet. Here are our top 10 tips for how to beat stress, anxiety and clutter and have a more mindful 2019.
Why Do Parents Love Wishbone Design Toys?
Here at BuyMeOnce, we love Wishbone Design Studio because their ethos is aligned with the BuyMeOnce way of slowing down consumption by choosing durable, quality products that last a long time. But why do parents in more than 135 countries love Wishbone products?
9 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Consumption and Save Money
Looking at the problem of plastic waste in its entirety can be damaging and counterproductive, a bit like looking directly at the sun. If you can make reducing your plastic waste a slow, steady, thoughtful process then you’ve got much more chance of lasting success. With that in mind, here are 9 habits you can cultivate to help you on your road to a less plastic-filled life, without breaking the bank.
Declutter your life, forever: the miracle of mindful curation
Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was a pill we could take which decluttered our homes, got us out of debt and saved the planet at the same time? That would be a nice few things off our to-do list.
Well my new technique of mindful curation doesn’t come in capsule form yet. The full philosophy is laid out in my book, A Life less Throwaway, but I wanted to put the techniques in a nutshell for the BuyMeOnce community.
9 Ways to Protect Kids from Consumerism and Why It's Important
We are programmed to want social acceptance. It’s not that we simply want to be accepted but that we feel we need to be accepted. In ancient times, if you were rejected by your tribe, you starved or died. No wonder this is a powerful driver for us. In our current consumerist society, and especially as young people, social acceptance and material things have become intimately linked.
How to Plan an Eco-Friendly Wedding on a Budget
Knowing that the average wedding creates a pile of waste the size of a car and pumps 62 tonnes of COs into the air can create a bit of angst before you’ve even begun the wedmin. But never fear – there are ways of dramatically reducing your impact while increasing the meaning and not breaking the bank. Here are our top nine tips for planning an eco-friendly wedding on a budget.
Time to Repair: How Patagonia is encouraging you to wear worn
Can keeping our clothes for longer and fixing busted zips help reduce our impact on the planet? It's certainly a stitch towards it.
How to Buy the Best Baby Essentials
A visit to any multi-brand retailer before a little one’s arrival can fill parents-to-be with panic. Many stores offer baby lists to peruse and guides to follow, but be warned, they are often sprawling, lengthy documents with 50+ items. To help make sense of it all, we’ve pulled together our guide on how to source the best essentials, focusing on items that will last multiple newborn journeys.
