Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Reader Stacey sent me this question the other week: How do you conquer jealousy/envy when it comes to material possessions? Stacey’s question was quite a bit longer than that and her focus was actually on homes, but
Life
4 Life Lessons From Not Making the Olympic Team
I booked our flights to attend the London 2012 Olympics this week. It’s almost a no brainer for us to go: two of my good friends will be racing and representing Canada in the Women’s 8+ rowing event. They have an excellent chance of not only making the podium but winning. Since we’re now
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Clothing
my husband has more clothing than me
… and I’m okay with that. Different seasons of your life require different amounts, and types, of clothing. My husband used to have a fluid wardrobe for life and work. He was a touring musician and the casual shirts, t-shirts and jeans that he wore on stage were usually the same things he wore as
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Life
Is Minimalism Harder for Women?
If you don’t look at the underlying thoughts beneath the desire to declutter – then you may just end up a serial declutterer – Lianne Raymond Last week I read this article from life coach Lianne Raymond about the dark side of decluttering. It’s actually a piece she wrote over a year ago but
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Internet
simple blogging
Confession: this blog has become quite a bit of work. In a good way. But not a way that is conducive to cutting my screen time. Between posting, reader emails, using my limited HTML skills to keep the layout from falling apart and, now, almost daily requests from freelancers to write a post full of
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Clothing
Things I Bought That Were A Waste Of Money: Suede Blazer
Did you ever read Mindy Kaling’s blog Things I Bought That I Love? This will be the Yin to the Yang of that blog. I’m going to take one for the team here and confess some terrible (and expensive) shopping mistakes. Most of them will be from my past but a few will even be
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Getting Started
Go Paperless
Nothing makes my skin itch more than piles of opened mail and unsorted bank statements. Before dealing with our mess of paper files and a few, ahem, boxes of loose credit card statements and random things we thought we needed to keep, I made sure to hide all of the paper mess in my husband’s
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inspiration
how to create a successful blog that doesn’t make a lot of money
This blog has been a big surprise. I started it to kick my own butt into gear with de-cluttering. I needed some motivation and I love to write. A blog made sense. At the time my husband and I had plans to work on a writing project together. When I told him I had registered