Update on 2021 Low Buy Year
January 24, 2022Happy New Year everyone! I thought I would start the year off with an update on my 2021 low buy year experiment. I planned on purchasing the following items in 2021: Cross country skis: I really wanted to ski last winter and I realize how much it is something that I like to do. With…
New year, new goal: Low Buy Challenge
February 1, 2021How have you been coping with the COVID pandemic? I admit that I have been having a hard time and my 2020 consumption reflects that. Retail therapy, even secondhand, is not good for the environment. I ended up buying 27 items of clothing, including two linen dresses, three cashmere sweaters, two pairs of jeans, two…
Don’t Shop, Swap!
December 15, 2019With Christmas upon us and Black Friday pushing us to buy, buy, buy clothing at discounted prices, I think that we all to stop and ask ourselves if we really need more clothes. Clothing waste is an increasingly large problem. With the advent of fast fashion houses like H&M and Zara encouraging weekly shopping, women…
4 Steps to Reducing your waste
June 13, 2019Spring is here and with the arrival of a new season, our thoughts also turn to personal changes. My colleague Fany is a busy, working mother of two young girls. The other day, she asked me to coach her on zero waste/reduce our waste living. It can be overwhelming. I used to be one of…
Rethinking Mother’s Day
May 13, 2019Once a shopaholic, always a shopaholic. Well, mentally at least. Now that I am “allowed” to shop, I often find myself thinking: It’s a nice day and I should go to the store and buy something. But wait, what is it that I need??? We all know that most of the time, the answer to…