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
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Week Four: Two Minimalist Money Habits
Talking about Finances this week as part of the 2014 Clutter Cleanse. Have I scared you off? More about money here. One of the tougher pills to swallow when you purge your home is all the things you bought that you didn’t really need or use. Things that you spent money on. Things that you
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Week Four: Money, Money, Money
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
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Week Three: Act Like You’re Moving… Around the World
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
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Week Three: Sell Your Home… To Yourself
Did you let go of a big piece of furniture? Still thinking about it? One of the bigger lessons I learned about stuff and clutter came a year before I heard about minimalism. I was very pregnant with my first son and we were selling our 598 square foot condo to move into something bigger.
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Week Three: Breaking Up With the Big Stuff
I used to think an IKEA organizational unit would solve all of my storage problems. If I just had the right storage my stuff wouldn’t be so disorganized. If the right shelf combination and drawer unit was in place the toys would be out of sight and my t-shirts would magically fold themselves into a
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Week Two: The “I’ll Need It Someday” Clutter
We’re focusing on small clutter this week. Junk drawers and magazine collections and my set of three whisks. Hopefully you’ve picked your way through a few drawers and closets this week. Buoyed by your commitment to have less it may have been easy to say goodbye to things you once thought you needed. Or… you
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Week Two: Clutter Hot Spots
How did that drawer go? Did you find yourself baffled by how all the small things accumulate? I know how our small things accumulate. We don’t deal with them. We don’t file that bank statement or recycle the envelope it came in right away. I toss that foreign change in the drawer instead of putting in