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 […]
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 […]
Before I ever considered myself a ‘minimalist’ I had some notions about what the word meant. It means someone who lives in an almost empty house. Their home is clad in white and stainless steel and dotted with chairs and furniture that have clean asymmetrical lines. They are probably well off and they spend their […]
You know what should be a form of therapy? Purging your underwear drawer. I recently did that and I feel like I could write a whole self-help book on the stages of grief you encounter during a decades-overdue undergarment purge. I mean, I had done some sweeps of the drawer in the past but this […]
Things heard around the house on a certain day known as Lenayah (Nena)’s birthday…. Dad will you tell me happy birthday again? (quietly to self) ‘birthday giiirrrrrl’ I don’t like it…I LOVE IT! No! I get to pick! I’m the birthday girl! Absolutely beautifulllll The last one was heard during the big reveal of Lenayah’s birthday present….a […]
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 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 […]
There was stuff I was having troubles getting rid of. So I made the commitment to have a garage sale because I knew I needed motivation to let go of what I was perceiving as the ‘gooder crap I don’t want but it’s still kinda useful or worth something’. This is a special category of […]
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 […]