Tips & Tricks

A year of tracking what we actually threw away, and the four changes that accounted for nearly all of it.

Three weeks in Patagonia on a budget that would embarrass a travel magazine, and everything I got wrong before I left.

None of these cost money, none of them took more than a week to stick, and together they did more for me than the two years I spent buying equipment.

I asked four people who do this for a living what they would keep if they could only keep three products. Nobody said anything I expected.

I logged every item I wore for six months. Eleven things accounted for more than half of it, and almost none of them were the ones I would have guessed.

Three years of writing down every dinner, and the surprisingly short list of things we actually cook.