Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Best Holiday Handbags UK: How to Choose by Trip Type
The bag you carry on holiday works harder than any bag you own. It goes through airport security, sits on restaurant floors, gets stuffed with sun cream and boarding passes, and still needs to look presentable for dinner. Getting it right means thinking about your trip type before you think about the bag. Why Your…
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The only sandals worth your money for summer 2026 (and the ones I’m blacklisting)
My feet are currently a map of scars from the summer of 2024. I was in Tuscany for a wedding, wearing these ‘adventure’ sandals that every blogger swore by, and by day three, I was literally duct-taping my heels just to walk to breakfast. It was pathetic. I looked like a wounded soldier in a…
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Why I finally stopped buying ‘soft’ yarn (and what I use instead)
I spent $142.50 on a sweater’s worth of hand-dyed, buttery-soft merino wool three years ago, and by the second time I wore it out of the house, it looked like a felted dog bed. I was devastated. I’d spent forty-some hours knitting this thing in a coffee shop in Seattle, thinking I was making an…
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Why most booster seat reviews are lying and the one I actually bought
It was August 2019, and I was sweating through my shirt in the IKEA parking lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn. My son was three minutes away from a full-blown meltdown because we’d spent two hours looking at Billy bookcases, and I was trying to install a Diono Monterey that I’d bought because a blog told…
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