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One of the core ideas behind living an edited life is access over ownership. The fact is that many of the things that are useful for certain times are liabilities most of the other ones. To illustrate, if you’re throwing.
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This site profiled the company Breather a couple years ago right after its launch. For lack of a more original description, Breather does for living and meeting rooms what Airbnb does for bedrooms. Via its site and app, Breather allows.
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Back in the day–and to this day in some places–people pumped from central wells, ground their wheat at central mills, baked their bread at central ovens and even bathed at centralized bathhouses. Primitive manufacturing technology limited private ownership for many.
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Winston Churchill was famously quoted as saying, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing–after they’ve tried everything else.” While there’s some debate about the exact phrasing and context of this statement, it does have a ring.
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The world’s roads are littered with people driving the same way–people leaving when you’re leaving, from where you’re leaving, going to where you’re going (or, if not exactly same locale, at least getting on and off somewhere along points on the way). But.
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The average American woman spends $60 and creates six pounds of waste on clothes every month. With around 160M American women, that’s $10B and 1B tons every month (American men spend a relatively measly $35). One of the reasons there is.
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A new site called Pley is hoping to change the way children consume and use their toys…well, one type of toy at least. They are offering monthly subscriptions for Legos. Pley’s subscriptions cost $15, $25 or $39 per month, for.
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Some things seem inherently incompatible with small space living: Car collections, big game taxidermy, Richard Serra sculptures and extensive tool collections. While the former things have easy workarounds, for the DIY-disposed, the latter is often considered indispensable. Many people who.
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Forget museums and tourist sites, when trying to get local flavor while traveling, few things beat eating local cuisine. While restaurants are fine, they can be expensive, hit-or-miss in terms of quality and can lack the intimacy and authenticity of.
Read More »If you thought the sharing economy was a passing fad or something exclusively for Ralph Nader voters*, think again. A new organization called Peers.org is trying to make sharing mainstream. It serves as both a member network for some of.
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