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Make your House Move the Opportunity of a Lifetime
The Eco-Explorer: Camping Gear that Leaves No Trace
5 Travelling Pitfalls and How to Combat Them
How to spring clean more mindfully in 3 easy steps
With our increasingly hectic lives and lack of time, it might feel as though your home is a dormant volcano full of unnecessary clutter ready to erupt at any moment. It’s time to act. The truth is that everyone has chaotic cupboards and disorderly drawers; piles of paperwork turn into towers on your desk and clothes and shoes wedge open your wardrobe.
8 Amazing Resources for Travelling Mindfully
What Makes a BuyMeOnce Product?
Our Top Beautiful and Useful Homeware Buys
A New Year’s Resolution: Mindful Eating
Hunting for heirloom quality toys? Explore our top five new finds
It’s November and, dare we say it, the festive season is not a million miles away. We know that gift buying, particularly for those little ones in our lives, is a lingering to-do list task.
Revealed: Why your iPhone only lasted one year
Who’s excited about the new iPhone release? Has it ignited a desire so white hot you spent the end of last week camped out along a major high street or furiously locked in a silent digital bidding war. No? Here at BuyMeOnce HQ, we’ve been left reeling from the latest revelation that the lifespan of an iPhone is just one year.
Sick of food waste? Serve it at your wedding!
Did you know one third of all food produced is wasted – most of which is fit for human consumption? Charlotte and Nick Baker wanted to tackle the problem at their wedding. The British couple asked Fur Clemt Real Junk Food Café in Wigan (a food waste charity) to feed their 135 guests.
How to Conquer Back to School with BuyMeOnce
August is inevitably a time when we rest, recover and then begin to look ahead. Whether September means you’ll be heading back to school or not, something in the promise of a new academic year resonates with us humans well beyond graduation.