Twenty year-old me would think my current life is heinously boring. Mostly stay-at-home mom, living in a small town on an island and I work part-time for myself making a teeny tiny fraction of my previous salary. Fame and fortune haven’t found me. I’m not training for anything exciting like an Ironman and I haven’t
Toys
Minimalist Toys: The $10 Worth Of Toys That Replaces $15,000
Minimalist toys that engage your kids and don’t create clutter. Sharing a minimalist toys concept from a recent UK article from where a family basically went no toy. Have you ever had a desire to just go no toys? Throw them all away. Maybe it came when you were moving house and boxed up the
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shopping mistakes
A No Buy Vacation
When you calculate the cost of your vacation do you add in all the things you buy for it and on it? New outfits, luggage, swim suits, travel devices and that afternoon spent shopping at the outlet mall everyone told you to go to can drive up the cost of a family getaway. Those costs
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Baby
Preparing For A New Baby: 26 Weeks
Apologies for the impromptu blog break last week and many thanks for the encouraging words about the M word. I want to reiterate that I haven’t abandoned this blog or living with less. Just working, as I always am, on finding a balance with our possessions and commitments. The silence last week was mostly
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Life
Finding Your Minimalist Sweet Spot
The title Minimalist Mom isn’t that accurate for me. If you’ve read a few posts here you’ll know that I aim for less and what we can live comfortably with rather than a rigid goal of a handful of possessions. I chose the name while in a burst of zeal for the idea of what
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Finances
Choosing Organic Over An iPhone
My husband I finished our Whole30 a few weeks ago. We both felt really good by the end and were sleeping well and had more energy. We’ve continued to eat primarily whole unprocessed foods and did a few test runs with dairy and gluten to see how we feel. Gluten: my ankles swelled up for
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Life
Fewer Decisions Creates More Focus
What’s for lunch? Should we go swimming this morning or play at home? Red or green? Or blue or purple? Decisions, big and small, can steal focus from your tasks and work. I’ve noticed that the more routine we have, even in our loose schedule, the more we get done. When I know that
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Being “That Family”
Some days I’m not sure where or when we crossed the line into being “that family”. Was it choosing home birth? Cloth diapering? Getting rid of so much stuff? Selling our car? At some point we decided that the more conventional path might not be the right one for us. Growing up all I wanted