This week saw the publication of, the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Sustainability in the Fashion Industry Enquiry. It revealed that that today, people buy and discard clothes faster than ever, getting rid of more than 1m tonnes of clothes a year, with £140m worth going to landfill every year. On average, Britons buy 26.7kg…
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Parcels still arriving from your Black Friday or Cyber Monday splurge? Or were you one of the exasperated shoppers, hoping that the endless Black Friday week emails offering deal after deal would just stop? While early reports suggest that shopper footfall declined 4.5% compared to 2017, it’s clear that online sales were the winner of…
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It’s no longer just the Coca Cola ad that gets us excited about Christmas, oh no, we now have the iconic John Lewis countdown, Kevin the carrot and this year even a very unexpected whirlwind involving Rang-tan! Here’s our favourite picks from 2018! “We have Love Actually to thank for casting a lobster in their Christmas…
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Is it too early to say Christmas? Probably… but I’m going for it anyway! This week Amazon commissioned a new survey to investigate the UK’s festive shopping habits to support the launch of their Christmas Shop and Gift Finder on their website as they found brits spend 882 hours in their lifetime purchasing 1,386 Christmas…
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It is widely reported that Halloween owes its origins to an ancient Iron Age pagan festival called Sanheim. Sanheim marked the end of summer and kicked-off the Celtic new year, symbolising a time of both death and rebirth, with the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Later, in the mid-eighth century,…
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Who’s already signed up? I’ve spent the last couple of weeks actively cleaning my home with Zoflora, visiting various homeware stores seeking out new magical cleaning products and sharing my new found love of cleaning my home with anyone who’ll listen. Sophie Hinchcliffe aka @mrshinchhome has become a cleaning sensation, taking Instagram by storm with her…
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“I’m just popping out to get some bits – do you need anything?” is a phrase that a lot of us hear regularly, but where does your mum, dad, sibling or flatmate actually go when they say this – to the petrol station or a convenience store? Research conducted by HIM would suggest that there are…
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You’d be mistaken for thinking it was the most wonderful time of the year, with the huge buzz surrounding the John Lewis advert which hit our screens earlier this week. But Christmas came early this year, during the nation’s other favourite annual tradition, The Great British Bake Off! The new Bohemian Rhapsody theme advert marked,…
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This month we’re getting to know lifestyle blogger Vix Meldrew! Known for her capsule wardrobes, chatty captions and general life updates! When did you first set up your social channels, and what got you started? I set them up to coincide with the launch of my blog back in 2014. I knew that’s ‘what bloggers…
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