Did you let go of a big piece of furniture? Still thinking about it? One of the bigger lessons I learned about stuff and clutter came a year before I heard about minimalism. I was very pregnant with my first son and we were selling our 598 square foot condo to move into something bigger.
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Week 1: Capsule Wardrobes {All that clothing you aren’t wearing}
This is the third post on building a Capsule Wardrobe for the 2016 Clutter Cleanse. You can read see my list of wardrobe basics and complete task #1 and also see my list of accessories and complete task #2 to get started. So what are you wearing? What aren’t you wearing? Did the two exercises
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Week 1: Building a Capsule Wardrobe
Week One of the 2016 Clutter Cleanse Challenge starts today! If you’re on Instagram follow and share your results on hashtag #cluttercleanse2016 The first place we’re streamlining: our wardrobe. Unlike a few other rooms or closets in the home, we look at our wardrobe everyday. You may not pick something out of your home library
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You Can Do This {Even If You’re Reading This Under a Pile of Laundry, Old Mail and Wrapping Paper}
Here’s a secret: you can get the best and truest and most rewarding part of living with less without lifting a finger. Sure, I talk a lot about clutter on this blog, the struggle to get it out and keep it out of the house, and resisting the oppressive culture of busyness and more, more,
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Getting Minimalist-ish in 2017
We’re currently exploring and getting to know a small island about 100 miles from Africa and a two hour ferry ride from Sicily. As I’ve written before, we’re having kind of a weird stretch right now as a family and I’m learning lots about managing life in less than ideal circumstances. With less time to
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Week 6: The Only Thing You Can’t Replace
Last post in the Clutter Cleanse for 2016. Thank you for joining in, sharing your wins on Facebook and Instagram and celebrating living a bit smaller so you can enjoy more of life. I started this blog to motivate myself to have less stuff. It felt like the walls of our condo were closing in
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Week 6: Happiness is…
How’s your home looking? More importantly, how are you feeling about stuff, your attachment to it and what those small buying choices ad up to after a few years? This is the week to stop selling DVDs on Amazon or getting rid of those cute on the hangar but painful in-person bras. This week is
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Week 5: money habits
Talking about Finances this week as part of the 2014 Clutter Cleanse. One of the tougher pills to swallow when you purge your home is all the things you bought that you didn’t really need or use. Things that you spent money on. Things that you worked hard to make money to buy. When a