It’s been a year since everything changed. A year since I started decluttering our home. This time one year ago I was reading The Joy of Less and Seven after hearing about them on Instagram. These books rustled me up, made me uncomfortable, motivated me to make some big changes. They were marked with an […]
We are coming off a year of ‘giving experiences not gifts’ so I’ve been approaching this Christmas with a smaller shopping list and big plans on how to ‘do things’ with our kids. We have told the kids that for Christmas we will take them to a hotel and go swimming. Their reaction has been […]
We all feel the tension. The commercialization versus the simple joy of togetherness. The presents versus the presence. Of course, I’d like to raise charitable kids over entitled kids but I don’t want them to think there is anything wrong with presents. I like presents! To me, the perfect gift is one that has thought […]
On Friday we talked about these five tips to make your Christmas simpler. But ‘simple’ looks different to each family. What does it look like to your family? The first step in finding your Simple Christmas is to get to know what’s going on under that candy cane grin. What are your expectations, your sources of […]
Christmas was likely a holiday that you adored as a child. You can smile and rattle off some treasured family traditions. Even if it was something strange and simple, like stealing the Christmas tree from the Christmas Eve church service because your Dad was a holiday Scrooge and you hadn’t put up a tree […]
This was supposed to be a little project I shared with the Simple Saturday newsletter, but there were so many photos I had to make it a blog post. I also wanted to share it in a blog post because something cool really happened from this simple decluttering project…. we actually are keeping our counters […]
Maybe we shouldn’t even ask ourselves ‘what if I need this one day?’. Maybe we should ask ‘what will do I if I ever find that I need it and don’t have it?’
I wish that once you declutter your house is permanently organized and tidy. Unfortunately, there is always stuff coming back into the house and you need to declutter repeatedly. I’m not the kind of lady who has her life together enough to follow some kind of decluttering calendar to make sure I keep on it. […]
I’ve been having lots of online and offline conversations lately where I am asked HOW I STARTED DECLUTTERING. I want to give you my best advice without giving you some prescriptive formula on it that will magically change your life (because I don’t think there is one). So, I will tell you what has worked for […]
I often get asked how to start decluttering. I shared my tips for getting the mojo to start decluttering right here. In this post, I want to share with you some practical tips how to approach the process of decluttering. HOW I STARTED DECLUTTERING When I started decluttering I started with my bathrooms and my […]