In a nutshell – if you don’t know where to start but you do want to declutter the less-stuff calendar makes life easier. Do you.. Feel overwhelmed by the amount …
Dina Day! Found it Friday
A fanfare for this fantastic, fabulous, friendly, feel-good family of decluttering fairies. 🎺 I have to post today’s prompt a little early in the day because we have an early …
Dina Day! Think about it Thursday
Good morning, one and all! Today is Think About It Thursday. Sometimes, when we are proposing to declutter a particular area or type of item, we need to consider where …
Dina Day! Weightlifting Wednesday
Welcome, one and all, to this wonderful world of Weightlifting Wednesday! “What?” I hear you cry, “What has weightlifting to do with decluttering?” Allow me enlighten you. I hope the …
Dina Day! Tidy Table Tuesday
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a new day. In an effort to reduce both costs and waste, I was going to reuse a day. However, when I went into …
Dina Day! Monday Morning Moanathon
Here I am again! This time offering you a Monday Morning Moan-athon. This can be done either alone or as a communal activity. As a rough guide, I would estimate …
Dina Day! Special Offer Saturday
Good morning on this super, sunny Saturday and welcome to the weekend. Today Less Stuff is offering a ‘not to be missed’ bargain, making today Special Offer Saturday – in …
Dina Day! Fab Four Friday
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to NTW, otherwise known as Nearly The Weekend or, as we call it in The Best Group In All Of Facebook, Fab Four Friday. And, …
Dina Day! Worn out Wednesday
Welcome to Worn Out Wednesday. It doesn’t mean fatigue (I could do that every day!). Have you any worn or broken things that are beyond repair? If so, today’s the …
Dina Day! Match it up Monday
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the start of a new week. I have decluttered Bob Geldof and the rest of the Boomtown Rats so there shouldn’t be anyone complaining …
Dina Day! POETS Day
Hello and welcome to POETS day (Push Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday). Today’s prompt may look familiar but there’s a different emphasis. Fridge/Freezer Friday, this week, is not about what needs …
Dina Day! Thermal Thursday
Good morning to everyone in this The Best Group In All Of Facebook. It’s a beautiful sunny morning here in my little corner of Manchester. A wonderful ‘plus’ of having …
Dina Day! WIP-ing Wednesday
Good morning, Less-Stuffers, and welcome to WIP-ing Wednesday. Any knitters in the group will probably know that a WIP is a Work In Progress. (The photograph shows me Extreme Knitting …
Dina Day! Tick it off Tuesday
Hi, everyone. Today is Tick It Off Tuesday. I don’t know how it happens but lists of things to be done seem to appear from nowhere! I make a note …
Dina Day! Medical Monday
Good morning lovely Less-Stuffers (that means everyone, in case you were afraid it didn’t include you!) and welcome to Dina Day. Now, as many of you already know, I am …
Have a Buy Nothing Day and make do instead
I used to do my food shop every Monday. I had it down to a fine art, roughly planning what we were going to need for the week then getting …
Stop pouring money down the drain. Reuse your ‘grey water’
What is grey water? Grey water is water that has been used to wash something. It is the water from showers, washing dishes, baths, sinks, etc. and it typically makes …
Refill a disposable water bottle, save money, help the planet.
You don’t need to spend money on fancy water bottles, although nice stainless steel ones are worth the money because they keep your water cool. Simply re-filling a disposable water …
How easy is it to upcycle a plastic bottle?
If you are an IKEA Family member you might have seen these amazing emails that feature products for £0! That’s right, nothing! IKEA are promoting the Live LAGOM ethos of …
Craft with Lisa from less-stuff at IKEA’s Learning Lab in Greenwich
Earlier this year I was invited to visit the IKEA store in Greenwich. It is pretty special because it is very sustainable. They use solar power, harvest all their rainwater, …
Save money, eat like a king and save food waste with Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is a free app that saves good food from waste. Anywhere that sells food often has delicious goodies left at the end of the day. Too …
Top tips for buying secondhand – Guest post by Holly Foat
This guest post is by a Holly Foat who combines bargain hunting with living more sustainably. I’ve been super busy running upcycling workshops away from home so I really appreciate …
Celebrate #WaitroseUnpacked with an upcycling craft workshop
Very exciting things are happening this June. The Waitrose store in Botley Road, Oxford has a whole new unpackaged area! Enter #WaitroseUnpacked and you walk into the store to see …
A Rubbish Boat Trip – Plastic Fishing with Bristol Waste
Litter isn’t just on land Every week Bristol Harbour Authority fill a skip with rubbish. They do a lot of litter picking as part of their role to keep our …
You don’t need a garden to grow your own with IKEA Live LAGOM
What is Live LAGOM? Three years ago I was chosen at random because I answered an email from IKEA asking me if I’d be interested in learning to live more …
Sourdough bread instructions
I’ve been making a loaf of bread every week for a few months now and it is starting to look ok. The recipe and the instructions are from a brilliant …
A good long list of nice things to do.
This idea came from Christine in the less-stuff Facebook group. I post prompts most days with ideas for little things to do and on Tick it off Tuesday Christine posted …
Super easy and quick granola
Delicious for breakfast with yoghurt and apple puree, nice as a topping for crumble too. Not the best breakfast choice if you are trying to keep your carbs and sugar …
What do bloggers make? Earnings from less-stuff 2018 to 2019
Running less-stuff is not my full time job, although I’d love it to be. Most of my income comes from graphic and web design and a bit of teaching. We …
54 Self Care ideas for frugal and busy people
I’ve been feeling kind of Meh lately. A bit run down and lacking motivation or energy to do anything. In the Meh state I tend to forget what helps, so …
Root vegetable crumble – a delicious way to use up any veg
This is a genuinely lovely comfort food recipe with the added benefit of being a fridge clearer! You can add almost anything to it. Cabbage, Pak Choi, Kohl Rabi, Swede, …
What can you do with beetroot powder and rose petals?
The nice folk at www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk sent me a box of unusual ingredients for me to try out. I was keen to try out the beetroot powder, I like beetroot anyway, especially …
Decluttering Haiku for World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day is on the 21st March and last year, in the less-stuff Facebook group we had a play around with decluttering Haiku. Haiku is supposed to be 5 …
How changing a lightbulb can make a huge sustainable difference
This post is about the changes that IKEA has made to be more sustainable. We can use their ideas in our homes to save money too by reducing, reusing and …
What do do when you have no motivation
It happens to all of us. We tick along nicely and then something just pushes us over the edge of productivity, straight into feeling like it’s all too much bother. …
The Frugal Family Takeover Part 4 – Practical Self Care
Often people assume that after spending so very long teaching and supporting others with their personal development I have a perfect life – this is hilarious to me and those …
How Decluttering Helps You Live a More Sustainable Lifestyle – Guest Post
This is a guest post from Emily who is the editor of Conservation Folks, and she’s always looking for ways to reduce daily waste. Springtime means that the weather is …
Reducing Kitchen Waste with IKEA – Josh’s top picks
The kitchen can be a terribly wasteful place. From leftovers that never get eaten to the water we pour down the plughole when washing up. Josh an Interior Designer who …
What would you do with a bucket full of cash? The RADMIN Convention 2019
I have had the weirdest weekend. As an MA student I get emails inviting me to all sorts of things and I try to go to as many as possible. …
Anna’s top tips for deterring car thieves
Our wonderful Anna from the less-stuff Facebook group had her car broken into last week. “The car was right outside the house, under the bedroom window and we didn’t hear …
Getting efficient with the Effici Productivity Planner
If you are looking for a nice big flexible journal that helps you track your habits and make the most of the day the EFFICI Productivity Planner could be for …