When Simple Saturday readers email me, a common problem they share with me is that they are wanting to simplify their home but their spouse is less excited about it. I have some thoughts on this I hope will help those struggling with this . . . . MOTIVATE WHO THEY ARE RATHER […]
I wanted to write this post and tell you that for the first time in my adult life I have real, legit, New Year’s resolutions! (because all the other years I have copped-out and said my resolution is to ‘chew my food well’, I mean, this really falls in the life skill category, not […]
Happy Thanksgiving Monday! Today is a day when kids get to skip preschool, rustle through giant leafy nests and we get to deal with the hangover our kitchen just endured. Or….maybe it’s a day to hang in PJs, make waffles, send your husband passive aggressive texts about using the last of the maple syrup and deal […]
This could be a post on being worldly, nomadic and always ready to pick up for the next whimsical adventure. But, it’s not. It is about how we view our homes. As we’ve leaned in to ‘minimalism‘ I have found there are ups and downs to making it work as a family of five. Yet, as […]
We have been purging our house since January 2015 (even if we aren’t very good at it). Though we’ve gotten rid of over a dozen truckloads, I still feel like I’ve been failing at ‘minimalism’ because of this one room…. The kitchen. I do feel exhausted with this space. It is our main living space. And living […]
This is a guest post by Assya, who I met through the Unsettle Facebook group. I read her article and I just couldn’t get it out of my head, I still can’t. I just keep thinking of all the stuff in my parent’s house that one day we will have to thumb through, box by painful box. […]
Sometimes when I’m feeling all suffocated with my ego’s drive to have the Pinterest home and life I make my own life torture. I’m surprised Conor hasn’t banned the term, “So… I saw this thing on Pinterest….” from the dinner table conversation. I had unrealistic expectations coming into ‘minimalism’. I started fast out of […]
Alternate title: Why is this crap still in your house? After the initial ‘purges’ I felt good. I got rid of the easy stuff: the garbage, the broken, the ‘I don’t even really like this’, or the ‘that was so college Me’ Inspired by @sophiemar12 to clean my bedroom and hit the jackpot of […]
When you grow up surrounded by ‘stuff’ you develop a complicated and personal relationship to words like ‘clutter’, ‘organized’, and ‘storage’. I can’t say my parents did anything wrong by keeping their possessions, but it was a source of stress for me. Into my adult life it still stresses me. I feel burdened by things. […]
I blame the founding of this site on that word: minimalism. It is something I learned about this past December while reading The Joy of Less. Even though I had always heard the word floating around I assumed ‘minimalism’ had something to do with lots of white chairs, rich people and home appliances that were […]