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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The ultimate face mask, salvation for bored dogs and saving the world, one coffee capsule at a time
Well all be wearing face masks for a long time yet, so in a shockingly topical twist to Utterly Inessential we have one that fits the brief of design-overkill quite magnificently — as well as our usual mix of wonders. Victoria Marston is your guide.
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Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Defying the end of summer, a clock that doesn't tick and a dinner party in a box (N.B. dinner not included)
Time to forget the necessities and indulge in this week's nice-to-haves. Victoria Marston and Toby Keel are your guides.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Back to university special, featuring eight creative ways to blow through your student loans
We hate to break the news, but unless you're planning a career in academia, medicine or some other equivalent specialism, a degree itself falls well and truly into 'Utterly Inessential' territory. And if you're going, why not go in style?
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Tea for one, gin for anyone, and the solution for a ponging pooch
Victoria Marston guides us through this week's collection of wonders, where every whim of fussy humans and even fussier dogs is taken care of.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cute cups, posh pants, and a secret snooker table
After a few weeks of sipping cocktails beside a hotel bar in Cap d'Antibes, albeit sadly only in their dreams, Victoria Marston and Toby Keel get our Utterly Inessential shopping guide back up and running.
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The Utterly Inessential Travel Shopping List: Staycations, luggage and a £45,000 private jet trip to the Maldives
Country Life's travel editor Rosie Paterson shares some ideas as we all start thinking once more about holidays.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: How to do country walking in proper style
The country walking habit seems to have stuck, even in these days when lockdown is easing.
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The Utterly Inessential Father's Day Shopping List, from super-luxury to a big old box of beer
We'll tell you what he wants. What he really, really wants.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Dressing for dinner, lockdown-style
Let's be honest: we've all let standards slip a bit (well, a lot) since lockdown began. That ends here.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Glorious garden furniture, from perfect parasols to a love seat for a ménage a trois
One of the great frustrations of the 2020 lockdown has been the extraordinary good weather. The answer to making the most of it is, of course, garden furniture.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The finest lounging-around-the house clothes money can buy
Tracksuit bottoms made from cashmere, shoes without pesky laces to tie and untie all the time and silk pyjamas that would make Terry-Thomas wince with pleasure make the cut in this week's list.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cheese by the wheel-load, ducklings by post and sticky ginger pudding
There's a corner of the internet where the only rule is that things must be lovely — and you just found it. Victoria Marston will be your guide.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Super-luxury board games for the bored and well-heeled
Never again will you be able to look at your charity shop-sourced Scrabble set with the same light in your eyes.
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The Utterly Inessential Working From Home shopping list: Desks, speakers and magical gizmos from £35 to £8,500
You don't need to sprinkle a bit of luxury into your working from home set-up. But it helps.
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The Utterly Inessential Easter shopping list: Whisky and chocolates, solid-cheese 'eggs' and the madness of Champagne meeting lipstick
Easter will be a little different this year, but it's still a time for treats and celebration as we wave goodbye to winter and Lent.
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The Utterly Inessential Spring Shopping List: A few of life’s little luxuries to brave the strange time between winter and summer
The time between winter and summer has been made all the more strange by the current circumstances. However, there's nothing like a little retail therapy to make one prepared to face the coming season, whatever it may hold. Alexandra Fraser rounds up some of her spring favourites.
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The Utterly Inessential Mother's Day Shopping List: The gins, gifts and experiences to brighten up your mother's Sunday
Let's face it, your mother would be happy with breakfast in bed and some hand-picked flowers. But, if you're considering something a little more special, this list seems like a good place to start.
