As you may recall, I have pledged to get rid of 80% of my stuff. Since that time, I have been making slow but steady progress by defining decluttering areas, breaking down types of items in those areas, and determining ahead of time how to […]

You may remember that I recently started making my own soap. I was tired of all the plastic bottles that accompanied our hand-pump soaps and body washes. Between the cost of these soaps and the ridiculous amount of packaging, I was ready for a better […]

OK, so in my last post, I enthused about how I was going to kickstart my dining room decluttering project by tackling the Small Bookcase. You remember the Small Bookcase? If not, see above. Of course, I procrastinated until it was dark outside, so the […]

Yesterday, we had the kickoff meeting for the spring soccer season, which just happened to be right across the street from Southern Thrift, my new favorite thrift store. So after the meeting, we popped in to the store to find some track pants for my […]

Since I have started along the path to minimalism and a simpler life, I have read everything that I could get my hands on about simplifying, decluttering, and organizing. Almost every book and blog that I have come across features a before story and an […]

It’s time for a new type of post that I call Lazy Links, in which I link to interesting and insightful articles that I have come across over the past few weeks (rather than providing original content of my own). Some of these are older […]