• The Lazy Person’s Guide to Selling Your Stuff W ... I detest yard sales. There. I said it. I despise going to them and I despise having them. I know some people do very well at them and I have friends who treat a day of scoping out yard sales like an Olympic event. S ...

• How to Revive Your Minimalist Mojo ... When I began my journey to minimalism two years ago, I thought it would be easy. It felt so great to watch the wide eyes of the Goodwill workers as we carried in yet another load of our belongings. I loved feeling l ...

• When Life Gives You Lemons, Don’t Let Them Clut ... We’ve all heard the popular quote: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” This popular bit of advice is all about making the best of a not-so-great situation. It’s great advice to battl ...

• Building a Handicap Accessible Tiny House ...   I am excited to report that a custom built tiny house will soon be on our joint family property! I have loved the concept of tiny house living for a long time now. From the first video I saw of Jay’s Tu ...

• Your Child’s Messy Room is Your Fault ...   If you are struggling with what to do about your child’s messy room, the person needing a pep talk isn’t your child. It’s you. The word “fault” implies a sense of responsibility. ...

• When You Have a Bad Day ... We all have them. The days where we aren’t ourselves. The days when nothing comes together the way we’d like. The days when we want to throw in the towel. A bad day can take you by surprise or show up ri ...

• A Plea for Phone Free Zones ... When I started to intentionally live more simply, one of the first changes I made was shutting my phone off in the car. As a very busy woman with a very busy job, I thought I had to be connected all the time… and ...

• How to Get Your Groovy On ... Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy. Take 1 minutes and 54 seconds out of your busy day, play the video and c ...

• One Small Change ... We stopped using our dishwasher last October and sometimes leave clean dishes in a drying rack overnight. My husband usually wakes up before me and on some mornings, he puts all the dishes away. Even though I have p ...

• Everything You Need to Know to Start a Microbusin ... Before I start today’s very important post (and my longest post ever), I want to remind you that the Make Time Course starts on Monday. Register here and join Tammy Strobel and I for 3 weeks of discovering whe ...

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• True essentials ... ...

• ... It's been a week since we found out it's mold that's making us sick. I had wondered whether mold could be the reason when I first started vomiting. Of course I really hoped I'd be pregnant against all od ...

• How to lose your health AND your stuff ... So did I tell you that I have felt really sick since before Christmas? Like vomiting daily for weeks at a time -sick? Feeling faintness when I lie down (like when you are drunk)? And all the infections we have had, ...

• Standard house for standard people? ... ...

• Friday Flowers - Irises ... It seems like every other house in our neighborhood has irises blooming right now. It's gorgeous. Here are just a few photos I snapped on a walk this week. ...

• The Perfect Gift ... We had a wonderful weekend here. My family embraced my idea of calling it "Mother's Weekend" instead of just mother's day and let me pick the activities. I picked our Saturday h ...

• Wildflowers ... This is my favorite time of year to hike because of all the gorgeous wildflowers. Here are some photos I've taken this weekend and last.... ...

• Memorizing ... One discipline I've begun practicing is memorization. Specifically scripture memorization.It started last year with a personal challenge to memorize 25 different ver ...

• Mason Jars ... Last summer I bought a set of mason jars with hopes of filling them all with garden goodness.I spent an entire afternoon blanching, scoring, peeling, chopping, boiling.....all in the ...

• CSA ... ...

• PPIT ... We have a little something in our family we call P:PIT.  It stands for Project: Pull It Together.  We are in desperate need of this right now.  We have had one hell of a semester.  It was suppose ...

• spring break = project week ... It is spring break.  We do not have travel plans.  We will be spending time at home getting stuff done.  I have several projects I have been wanting to get to for two months.  I have just not fou ...

• at last ... I just have to say that this post was written  and ready for me to add pictures over a week ago, and then it mysteriously disappeared.  I am a compulsive saver of my work, so I am not sure what my ...

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• Too Many Commitments = Sickness ... We try to keep a moderate schedule. My oldest son is typically in one or two extracurricular activities that never require more than a couple of hours one or two evenings each week. This spring, however, we agreed t ...

• Wow. I Did Not See that Coming ... Source: Uploaded by user via Cynthia on Pinterest   There have been some exciting developments happening in my world lately. A couple of fantastic opportunities I’ve never before considered have presented ...

• What’s Your Ideal Work Arrangement? ... Source: bordengymnastics.ca via Jenny on Pinterest   The past few weeks have been a total whirlwind for me. Earlier this month I launched my first e-book, then awaited some changes looming in my full-time job. ...

• Spend More on the Things You Love ... Source: flickr.com via Jenny on Pinterest   There are many areas in my life where I practice frugality, or just do without. The funny thing is, those areas where I cut back are areas in which I don’t noti ...

• Letting Go ... When we find ourselves in the midst of a crisis, it can be difficult to let go of our current circumstances and jump into the unknown. Sometimes clinging to the familiar — no matter how painful — is more ...

• Is a balanced life possible? ... Ah, the ever elusive balanced life. So many seek to find that balance, that place where they feel like they are doing everything they are supposed to do in their lives. Juggling all their roles, spinning a ...

• How stress affects our body, big or little, it’ ... Looking over this infographic, it is no wonder that many of us in this busy 21st century feel like we are falling to pieces. It’s because we really are. Not only is it wearing and difficult on our mind and ...

• Depression is NOT being sad ... Many people think depression is feeling sad. That is not altogether true. Depression is not sadness. In depression, we lose the ability to feel ANY emotion strongly. The true opposite of depressio ...

• When all of a sudden, you’re in a bad mood ... We all experience bad moods of a moderate type. Whether we are actually actually depressed, to some degree, or not, mood swings can hit us and change our whole outlook on the situation, the day, or on life in a s ...

• Why overcoming depression can be so hard ... In reading and studying depression, in an effort to overcome it myself, and to help others who are also dealing with depression, I found that there are at least 8 areas of your life that are affected by depressio ...

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• 7 Pre-Bedtime Activities to Streamline Your Morni ... ...

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• How to Reduce Your Laundry Load ... A few Quick Tips to Reduce the Amount of Laundry you do: Worn does not always equal dirty. Your jeans, in particular,will last longer if you wear them a few times in between washes.. plus, they' ...

• Five Essentials for a Minimalist Mama ... Babies may be little, but their stuff is huge... and it takes up a ton of space in your house.  With my first one, I was so excited to register for all the latest baby gear and gadgets.  By the time Tiny c ...

• One Simple Thing: No Laundry Basket ... Source: containerstore.com via Rachel on Pinterest   Credit must go where credit is due. This was not my idea. I gleaned it from the comments section on this blog. Laura (posts as Apple) mentioned she had done ...

• Things I Bought That Were A Waste Of Money: 2001 ... Have you heard of writer Mindy Kaling’s blog Things I Bought That I Love? This is the Yin to the Yang of that blog. For another shopping mistake check out my terrible suede blazer purchase. My intentions were ...

• Inspiration vs. Inferiority Complex: The Darkside ... Source: google.com via Rachel on Pinterest   Pinterest is fun. Pinterest is inspiring. Pinterest is a great way to collect images for motivation or to keep track. Pinterest is also the greatest online mall. In ...

• Shopping Is Not A Hobby ... Source: s752.photobucket.com via Connie on Pinterest   I’ll be re-posting from the archives a bit in the next few weeks. I’ve had some new readers to the blog lately and thought this might be a fun ...

• It’s Okay To Experiment With Downsizing ...                   I mentioned yesterday that we moved. I would love to tell you it was to a micro-house. Six hundred square feet efficiently equipped for a family of thre ...

• Knowing More ... I was just procrastinating. Perusing my blog reader. Trying to find something to fill the time instead of working or stressing out or getting ready for bed. A title immediately [...] ...

• Unexpected Lessons ... It was supposed to be a quick trip. A simple gesture to honor my brother and see a new city. Eat some food. Walk around. Laugh with family. And really, [...] ...

• A Penny for Your Thoughts? More like $20… ... This rant has been a loooong time coming. And I’m confident that it’s a frustration shared by an ever-growing Interweb population. This, my friends, is the overwhelming bandwagon of monetizing [...] ...

• I Wanna Be Like You-oo-oo ...   There’s been some dissonance in my mind as of late. My drive to write immensely diminished. I found myself in a “Bah Humbug” mood. I thought it might be [...] ...

• Those Privileged Minimalists ... I stood astounded as Noah so quickly and willingly handed over toy after toy to his brother. “Here, Keegan, you can have this,” Noah repeated frequently as he delved into [...] ...

• Mindless Comments Kill the Child’s Spirit of Ma ... I know she didn’t do it on purpose.  I know she meant no harm.  And, this just goes to show how mindless we adults can be…how quickly and easily we can kill the child’s spirit of mastery. We stop ...

• Living Insights ... Last week I took a field trip.  Six friends piled in my van and set out on a journey, destination unknown.  We knew the physical address but we had no concept of the realm we would journey to. Living Insights Cent ...

• I am this because of that ... One thing that keeps going through my mind…if my children are my spiritual teachers, I must be my parents’ spiritual teacher.  I spend much of my time contemplating conscious parenting, with me as the parent.  ...

• Living a Win-Win Life ... This is my outline and flow of thoughts for a 7 Habits group meeting discussing the 4th Habit:  Thinking Win-Win. We know what win-win is…do we know the secret to living a win-win life?  With self, with family, ...

• Our Smart Green House ... This is my effort to journal our home building process.  It is a dynamic post to be added to as we grow. Digging Deep The bids are in.  And ouch is about all I can say.  It hurts – it’s bruising my sp ...

• Experiences, Activities, and Events ... One of our goals in downsizing and moving from our 4 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom apartment is to free up time and money so that we can create more meaningful experiences and participate in more fun activities.  We ...

• Splitting Meals to Save Money… and Calories ... Many times when we go out to eat, my wife and I will split a meal.  Serving sizes are so humongous these days that we can both be very satisfied (and sometimes still completely stuffed) by eating half sized portion ...

• Feeling Poor on $100,000 per year ... I just saw another article pop up on Yahoo about people feeling poor while earning a six figure salary.  I’ve seen articles like this before, and I can definitely relate.  We’re not in the six figure b ...

• Renters Are Not Losers ... There is a stigma associated with renting, especially when renting anything other than a house.  The common thought is that people rent because they cannot afford to buy a house.  This means they are lower income ...

• Your Hobbies Are More Financial Than You Think ... We all have hobbies.  Hobbies are enjoyable ways to pass the time.  We often have hobbies that are tied to making or saving money.  After all, who doesn’t like to have some (or save some) extra money. Some ...

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