a rich life with less stuff
Want to change your life? Minimalism can help. But you’re the one doing the work. Increasingly I see that minimalism is being sold as some panacea. The idea is that this silver bullet will cure everything. Just get rid of your stuff and things will fall into place. Tired? Try minimalism. Broke? Minimalism will instantly
Many years ago Magda said somewhere that she had taken the path of least resistance with school lunches. Magda had been trying to send a variety of school lunches as Instagram and nutritionists tell us we need to do. Her kids wouldn’t eat or complained about what she sent. Every week she felt stress about
The universe kept sending me messages about trying a really early morning routine. The most recent early morning routine message was from Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind. Erin recently shared that she gets up between 2am and 3am. TWO. A. M. She goes to bed just after having dinner with her family and her
Our top children’s books that survived our home library declutter. Over on Instagram I shared some photos and videos of our home library as we sorted and pared down the kid’s books the other day. You can still see some of it in the ‘Room for 3’ archive. Our top children’s books cover a huge
Happy to share this interview with Shalina today as part of the Minimalism & Family Interview Series. I’m Shalina, a 34 year old single-mom and graphic designer. I share my 350 sq ft tiny home with my 15 year old daughter, Katie, who’s about to start her sophomore year of high school. We live outside
We stopped watching tv for the summer. And it wasn’t that hard. Our no television summer is coming to a close. We stopped watching tv for the summer and had a wonderful screen-free summer. We spent a lot of time together as a family and a lot of time outdoors. Our oldest has become an
The simple living hacks that never stuck or we failed at. Back when simple living / minimalism was more of a ‘guy in his 20s living out of a backpack’ lifestyle in the blogging world, there was a lot of talk about simple living hacks. Like, I just use one pot and a frying pan
Living in school bus and a tiny home doesn’t mean you can’t have and love beautiful things. Could you live in a school bus? If you love beautiful things you will enjoy this interview with Baylie. She’s a mother of three, entrepreneur, tiny home and bus dweller, that loves her beautiful stuff. If you ever