A Garage Sale Tale

For writer Freya Latona, garage sales are about more than scoring a bargain – they’re a precious link to the past and a way of...

Keeping up with The New Joneses

Small footprint advocates The New Joneses boast the totally charming mission statement of “taking green from mung bean to mainstream” – and that’s a cause...

Take five: Lilli Waters

We love art that stops you in your tracks and makes you really think, and lucky Melburnians can do just that at Plastic Fish – an...

THE LAST WORD: LEE CROCKFORD

Today is R U OK Day – the national suicide prevention day that urges us all to ask the people around us that one little...

Five linen labels to swoon over

We love linen. No really, we love it – it’s a bit of an obsession around Peppermint HQ. It’s entirely possible that, if linen were...

Peppermint Pitch Winner: towels with purpose

Elise Dunstan has a passion for social justice that she attributes to her parents and her upbringing, and which was further ignited by her years...

The ‘Making for Good’ Issue: Out Now!

There’s nothing quite like the joy that comes from making something with your own two hands. And this personal act can often have an impact...

CHANGEMAKER: MUSTAFAH ABDULAZIZ

Despite living in drought-prone Australia, it’s hard to imagine experiencing life-threatening water scarcity. How it feels to travel a day for water. To be unable...

NEVER EVER PAY RETAIL’S OP SHOP WISHLIST

Hannah Klose is pretty much the closest thing Australia’s got to a professional op shopper. The brains behind thrifty blog Never Ever Pay Retail, Hannah’s...

Peppermint Pitch winner: a festival of sharing

A New South Wales mother and Ayurvedic practitioner, Amy Graham describes herself as ‘a lover of life and a seeker of the light’. Living in...

THE LAST WORD: DESIGNERS CAN SAVE US

Hear that? It’s the rumblings of change. The sound of the global fashion industry stirring from its apathetic slumber. The beast is groaning because it...

STUDIO THRIFTY4

If you’re anything like us, nothing makes your heart sing more than a well-stocked retro rail at your local op shop. Whilst the standard racks...