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My Uniform Experiment – How a Simple Wardrobe Can De-stress Your Day
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash For the past few months, I’ve been doing something which the old me would have had a panic attack over: wearing the same outfit 90% of the time. For months. And nobody has noticed. At least, nobody has said anything. This outfit consists of a pink cardigan over a plain black top (which sometimes gets swapped out for the same style top with a floral design when the black one’s in the wash), and a blue pair of jeans (one out of two pairs I own). I love it. If you want to know what I’m talking about you can see me wearing it on my Youtube…
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Wearing Blood: Will You Pay The True Cost?
I’ve been a minimalist for a couple of years, and when you’ve been minimalist for a good while, something changes inside you. You start thinking about the Earth and the people and animals who share it with us. It’s as if there’s suddenly space to think about something bigger than ourselves. Most of us drift through life buying what we want when we want. Now the internet has made it even easier for us to buy things on a whim. Everywhere we go advertisements follow us, convincing us we’re undesirable, unfashionable, and lacking, despite our wardrobes and cupboards spilling out. A few weeks ago I watched a documentary called The…
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How to Regain Control of Your Wardrobe, Save Our Planet (and look fabulous doing it)
Last weekend, my husband and I went on a major clothes purge. It wasn’t that we hadn’t done so before. We found ourselves revisiting the task after several arguments about me not having washed any of his clothes. The reason? I perceived that he had plenty left because the drawers were always full to bursting with his t-shirts, boxers and socks. “But I don’t wear any of those!”, he would argue, when I told him he had more than enough. So, after deciding enough was enough, we joined forces and I emptied all the drawers and the wardrobe so it was all laid out on the bed. Seeing the hoard…
Minimalist Thinking, Maximum Living
