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Tech-Savvy Commuting: Safeguarding Your Gadgets with Day Owl

Pack and protect your gear on the go with Day Owl
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Winter Cool: Nailing Minimalist Vibes

An easy guide to going simpler and minimalist from head to toe and everything in between.
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Backpack TLC: A Comprehensive Guide to Washing and Maintaining Your Beloved Backpacks

How to wash, maintain, and repair your backpacks
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A Sustainable Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Thoughtful Presents for Your Eco-Conscious Love

Thoughtful Presents for Your Eco-Conscious Love
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Day Owl, The Lanyard Project, Mental Health, and The JED Foundation

(4 Minute Read) This week, we're releasing a very small batch of handmade beaded lanyards that today will help to keep you from losing your mask, and post-COVID will help to keep you from losing your sunglasses. You should buy them, they're great. Also, they were made by my mom and my Aunt Janet. All of the proceeds from the Lanyard Project are going to the JED Foundation, which helps protect and promote the emotional and mental health of teens and young adults. The Lanyard Project was Danny and James's idea.
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Onward

We knew it was a little unusual for a company to endorse a presidential candidate. While we were overwhelmed by the good vibes and well wishes of the vast majority of the Day Owl community when we endorsed Biden and Harris, those of you who didn't agree with us definitely let us know it. To those who were outright nasty, we wish you the very best. You are our brothers and sisters, and we hope you get the chance soon to take a nice long relaxing vacation.
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That Wasn't Protest

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5 Ways You Helped Us Get More Sustainable in 2020

(3 Minute Read) What a weird year. It's December, and while we like to think our recycled circular backpack future is so bright we're gonna need shades, the year has been DARK. With that in mind, after more than a few virtual cocktail hours, some online meditation classes, and more (terrible) sourdough baking than we care to mention, we've decided that when the wind blows, we should just raise our sail and ride this MFer out. That's why we are dedicating a little time here to sharing the moments that kept us going this year.
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Day Owl Joins The Mission Brand Alliance with United By Blue, Patagonia Worn Wear, tentree, and Others...YOU Get a Deal.

(2 Minute Read) As a small business struggling to make it in a crazy year, at Day Owl, we all know how hard YOU work for your dollars. We also know how frustrating it can be to spend them on stuff that doesn't work, doesn't last, or doesn't give you anything more than a piece of fabric that might make you look good, but ultimately ends up in a landfill, the ocean, or an incinerator. So when you sign up to follow the Alliance, you get access to deals that you save you some cash for voting for with your dollars on brands that are working hard to make it easier for you and better for the planet.
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Biff Tannen, Backpacks, and Five Minutes of Gratitude (Happy Thanksgiving)

(3 Minute Read) I used to think that I would have been much more suited to a different time. As a millennial raised on Back to the Future and Raiders of the Lost Ark, things seemed to be at once simpler and somehow more delightfully technicolor in 1885 or 1935 than they they were in1990s rural-suburbia Western PA where I grew up. In the old days, it seemed to me, villains were simple and easy to defeat in three acts over an hour and a half on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Like most other white males of my generation, it was also offered up to me directly and indirectly from all directions that I was special, and so I easily fancied myself a quick hero in the mold of Marty McFly or Indiana Jones. That feeling, as it turns out, isn't called heroism. It's called privilege.
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