Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Designer Launches £5 Eco-Friendly Bag
Shoppers in the UK have queued for hours for a new designer bag that is on sale for just £5.
“The new eco-friendly carrier bags went on sale in Anya Hindmarch stores across Britain as part of a bid by the designer to encourage shoppers to use fewer plastic bags when shopping.”
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Cheaper Online Handbag Shopping
Life Goggles had a great post over Christmas called Alternative Guide to Christmas Shopping, where they talked about going green online, charity shops, bartering for your goods, websites that offer you cash back for shopping on well known sites, and getting discounts using voucher codes. Quite frankly, if you don’t get a discount or cashback [...]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Design Against Crime
A great article by Treehugger that talks about the UK-based research centre Design Against Crime (DAC).
An example is the Grippa project initiated in 2004. The aim was to create ‘anti bag theft furniture’ and ‘anti bag theft furniture accessories’ for bar and restaurant environments and test those for effectiveness in reducing theft as well [...]
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
How To Avoid Identity Theft
The Guardian was posed the following question:
I had my handbag stolen on Christmas Day at a motorway service station. There wasn’t very much cash in it and I immediately cancelled my credit and debit cards, but the bag also contained my house keys, address book and various other documents, possibly including letters from utility companies [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Designer Handbags Quickie
The Daily Mail reported on the increase in popularity of designer handbags. Selfridges reports that the average price of its designer bags is now £850 which is up 55 per cent since 2005.