The Best Postconsumers Lists of 2015

Long before BuzzFeed took over the internet, the writers at Postconsumers were in love with writing in list format. In fact, we’ve been keeping track of our favorite lists of the year for a while now. You can find our favorite lists of 2014 here and our favorite lists of 2013 here. So what made the cut this year? Here’s our 2015 list of lists.

Five Places You May Not Realize You Have Clutter

As part of our January series on the New Year’s resolution to help reduce and get rid of clutter, we tried to gently guide you to think of areas of clutter outside of the obvious with these five places you may not normally think of. In fact, there’s a benefit to contemplating these five clutter collectors in that they may be less overwhelming places to start the reduction process than, say, your attic or garage. What’s on the list? You’ll have to click to see. See the list here.

20 Quotes About Love Meaning More Than Stuff

Anybody can ring in Valentine’s Day with quotes about love, but we took it to the next level when we specifically researched quotes that addressed the topic of love meaning more than “stuff.” Sure, some of these are open to interpretation, but we think that they’re an excellent start for thinking about what your real priorities in life are (or should be). Get inspired and moved with this list of emotional quotes that give the side eye to “stuff.” See the list here.

Five Examples of Valentine’s Day Marketing to Watch Out For

We love Valentine’s Day even though it’s a consumer holiday. We just wish more people would use the day to celebrate love instead of buy “stuff.” While we may not be able to talk everybody out of the stuffed teddy bear holding a heart, we can at least make sure that people are educated about the grinding gears of the marketing machine in preparation for February 14^th. We put this list of marketing traps to be wary of out there for all aspiring cupids. See the list here.

Five Ways to Stay Green at America’s Pastime

You love a day at the ballpark? So do many postconsumers and environmentalists. But despite ballparks working hard to make themselves more eco-friendly, many fans’ behaviors just aren’t planet conscious once they see the four bases and hear the crack of the bat. This simple list of five things can help you be kind to the planet when you’re out at the ballpark. Believe it or not, it’s much more uncomplicated than it seems. And it won’t cut into your fun at all. See the list here.

10 Ways to Get Involved with Saving the Planet

Of course, there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to get involved with saving the planet. We put this list together, however, to give you ten simple and actionable ones that can actually result in change without making you learn to compost everything that you touch. You may be surprised how making small changes, even just in the way that you think, can be the start to completely altering your lifestyle without even realizing that you’re doing it. See the list here.

10 Eco-Friendly Wedding Alternatives

This year we spent an entire month talking about the consumerism and ecofriendly implications of weddings. Perhaps you still want the big wedding and you’re just going to think critically about the earth-impacts as well as the level of consumerism involved. But maybe all of that information inspired you to want to do something different than the norm. This list is for you then. Alternatives to throwing the big consumer, eco-disaster wedding. See the list here.

Fifty Things to Upcycle Into Something Amazing

We’re not going to lie. We spent a massive amount of time both researching ideas and finding visual guides for this list. But we also got inspired to try many of the projects (to varying degrees of success) and find new uses for so many wasteful things in our homes. Not only is this list designed to get you inspired, too, but we think you’ll also enjoy the colorful and sometimes just plain fun visuals that go along with it. Get crafty with our upcycle list. See the list here.

Five Places to Visit Before They Disappear Due to Climate Change

We admit that the true topic matter in this list can be more than a little bit depressing. At the same time, it may spark your wanderlust and drive you to action. One thing that we can say for sure is that the visuals make this list worth taking a look at. After all, many of the places that climate change is destroying are fundamentally gorgeous. What’s that we said about this list potentially being depressing? Whether it gets your travel juices flowing or your activism juices flowing, we’re fine either way. See the list here.

Ten Tips for Raising Postconsumer Children

We actually did a series of five of these for every potential parenting situation. Read whichever list is most relevant to you. For new parents, the list is 10 Lessons for Postconsumer Parents. Then you can move through to graduation with 10 Tips for Raising Postconsumer Children: The Grade School Years, The Middle School Years, The High School Years and The College Years. Honestly, if your child is older than any of those segments, your best bet may just be to send them to our blog!

10 Tips for Combatting Back-to-School Consumer Media

If you just read that title and said, “There’s no way to actually do that,” believe us when we say we were worried we’d be saying the same thing when we started that piece. But after much research and brainstorming, we did come up with ten actionable ways that you can, if not avoid, at least reduce exposure to and make better decisions about the messages in back-to-school consumer media. It’s a dangerous time of year and one you should be prepared for. Read the list here.

Thirty-Seven Common Marketing Tricks to Be Aware Of

Knowledge is power. Real professional marketers helped us put together this list of thirty-seven traps and tricks broken down into five categories. Online, offline, upgrade marketing, sign-ups and data collection. If it’s a place that a marketer may get you into a corner, we’ve summarized it here with countermeasures included. We’re starting you with the first edition –the online one. It’s easy to navigate to the others, though. See the list here.

Twenty Tips for Making the Holidays About People Not Things

This is another one where there are plenty more than twenty ways, but we’re giving you twenty that we believe are easy to implement and succeed at. Mostly, we just want everybody to have great holidays every year that are stress-free and full of love. We think this list helps to get you started on that path. Read it now and get inspired for next year. See the list here.

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