Hello! We’re Daisy and Liv. Welcome to Living Our Salad Days
We’re two shopaholic twin sisters who run an award-winning makers market in London, called Salad Days. That’s where this Substack gets its name from!
We don’t know a lot about a lot, but we do know a lot about shopping. And South London. And how to live your very best life here. That’s what your “Salad Days” are all about.
So in this Substack we’ll be sharing our most excellent recommendations of where to go, and most importantly what to buy, next time you have a free day or a bit of cash on your hip (plus a few more personal bits too).
When we’re not running the market, these are the ways we like to spend our life, money and time 🎀🌀👯♀️
We were bought up on shopping!!
Our childhood dream was to run a department store together. Our most cherished memory is being allowed to choose our own Christmas outfits in GAP. It was 1998 after all!
Which is probably how we ended up starting Salad Days Market. After a torrid decade of working in the fashion industry for brands like ASOS and H&M, in 2019 we graduated to professional shoppers when we set up our own business and started hosting makers markets. In those five years we’ve been named “London’s best market” by Time Out, appeared in Selfridges five times, been featured by Vogue, The Sunday Times Style, Refinery29, House & Garden, been on the news, and even the front cover of a newspaper.
It’s literally a dream come TRUE because we get to help people shop for a living.
This is all to say: we don’t know a lot about a lot, but we do know a lot about shopping. And South London. And how to live your very best life here. Which is what we will be sharing with you in this Substack (plus a few more personal bits too). We hope it fills your eyes with joy, and at the very least leaves your inbox stacked full of excellent recommendations of where to go, and what to buy, next time you have a free day or a bit of cash on your hip. Thank you for being here.
So how does this work?
There are two options!
Become a FREE subscriber.
As a free subscriber, you’ll receive our monthly REPORT which is the newsletter that started off this whole Substack adventure. In it we’ll share everything we’re excited to tell you all about including what we’re Reading, Eating, Playing, Obsessing over, Recommending and Treating ourselves to. These aren’t just boring reccos you’ve already seen on every listicle going, but true, tried-and-tested, really good shouts. You can find these all listed here.
Become a PAID subscriber.
You’ll access a whole world of content like insider knowledge of up-and-coming small brands to know about before everyone else does, secondhand shopping tips, our favourite charity shops, and search terms we’re using on Vinted. Plus bits and bobs to help you live your best life in London like places to go for actually good pub roasts. If you think you can afford it, it’s £2.50 a month to subscribe (if you choose the annual option, it’s £4.50 a month if not) so sort of like the equivalent of getting us a drink. Becoming a paid subscriber supports our writing and means we can dedicate time to making the content here really excellent.
Head down here to subscribe as either a free or paid member. Either way we both thank you so much! We can’t wait to start giving you all of our top tips.
We’ve got LOADS to come.
