a rich life with less stuff
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
Two more posts left in the Clutter Cleanse. Wrapping things up tomorrow so we can all celebrate or ignore Valentine’s Day on Friday. Please remember today as you read: don’t shoot the messenger. This is going to scare a lot of you. You will leave comments telling us that you are the exception to these
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
Talking about finances this week as part of the Clutter Cleanse. More money talk here and here. One thing I’ve learned since reigning in my spending and going minimalist with finances: you can’t have it all. We’re lucky to have a good, I think great, income. However, even with good income we have to decide
For some of you this is a bye week. Yep, you get to relax and rest up for next week. If you still have work to do – get at it! If you’re feeling good about your financial life, on top of your bills and not in debt and pretty happy with what you earn
Last day for Week Three of the Clutter Cleanse: getting rid of the big things. The biggest way we downsized our stuff: we moved overseas. Life can bring some wonderful coincidences. After we purged like mad and got rid of over half of our things, including our car and the torch I ran with in