It’s feeling like 2011 here all over again. We just returned our cable box – a ‘yeah! North American sports coverage’ purchase for my husband when we moved back to Canada. And, yikes, we just sold the minivan we bought at the same time. No, we’re not in a big old mountain of debt like
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Minimalist-ish Family Series: Colleen Vales
So many challenges and so many big life changes for this family living in the expensive Bay area. A move to a tiny home and a new baby and long distance parenting and creating a multi-generational family unit by moving into your parent’s backyard. Really interesting and inspiring read here that I hope you enjoy
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Minimalist-ish Family Series: Shawna Scafe
Another family of five in my series featuring Minimalist-ish families. Happy to feature Shawna and her lovely family – I’ve been following her on Twitter and Instagram where she shares real life snap shots of trying to make things simple with three kids. 1.) Tell us about your family, who you are, where you live
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Finances
What Should You Choose: Money or Time?
I think I try to choose time over money in my life. In fact, I think the value of time was one of my bigger takeaways when we started getting into minimalism, decluttering and paying off debt with ‘gazelle like intensity’ as the great Dave Ramsey would say. Suddenly, I could equate stuff with time.
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Minimalist-ish Family Series: Kendal Gerard
Another post in the Minimalist-ish Family Series and this time it’s a young family deciding to love the space they’re in right now… even if it’s a lot smaller than they planned for. 1.) Tell us about your family, who you are, where you live and things that you love: We’re a new family of
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Kids
The Only Constant is Change
As I told Brooke on her podcast, we seem to like regular big changes in our life yet, I wouldn’t say my husband or I are great at adapting quickly to new places and routines. Our move and transition back to Canada from the Isle of Man last year left me feeling like a bag
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Travel
The Liebster Award and a Cringe Worthy Expat Faux Pas
The Luxpats nominated me for a Liebster award a while back (winners answer a series of questions about travel) and I took the challenge! I think this may be a first for me – I’m terrible about getting tagged in these types of things – but I loved the questions for this. Plus mining through
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Minimalist-ish Family Series: Living in an apartment with Three Boys
So much I can relate to about this family with three young boys living in an apartment. Thank you Dawn for sharing! 1.) Tell us about your family, who you are, where you live and things that you love: My husband and I both worked in education. I was an English teacher and he taught