This is another guest post from the Smeenks, a Canadian family of 6 traveling overseas indefinitely. You can read Jenn’s initial post about preparing to leave Canada and how they let go of their possessions here. It’s a great read. Particularly if you have a larger home or many children. Today Jenn is going to
Health
Minimize Yo Butt: 6 week fitness challenge
I finally stepped on the scale over here and wasn’t surprised to see that I am up 5 pounds since first getting word about our move overseas in March. My workout volume dropped and my chocolate consumption escalated as we got closer to the big day. No more! Faith had an idea to run a
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Guest Posts
Minimalist Families: on the road with the Smeenks
A few months back I wandered upon the Smeenks blog and started reading up on their global travels as a family of six. I was intrigued by this Canadian family, not only because they were globe trottters, but I was also fascinated to know more about how they sold their large home and the decisions
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Home
before and after: my Manx kitchen
On Monday I wrote about minimalist kitchens for the people. Running off some inspiration from creating my Minimalist Kitchen pinboard, and tired of the cluttered drawers and poorly laid out appliances in our rental, I did a light paring down of the kitchen here.
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Finances
reverse budgeting and a new finance app
A change is as good as a rest, as they say. We’re trying two new tactics with our budgeting and debt reduction: New tracking app: the previous app I was using, Budget, didn’t have an easy solution for sharing the data. Not great for a couple with shared finances. Chris did some recon work and
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Home
living without a freezer and washing dishes by hand
Old school housekeeping is the new black. At least, that’s how I’m tackling it here on the Isle of Man. When we were shown our new home there were a few unexpected, but charming to me, differences between it and our old home in Canada. The first difference was that there was no freezer.
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Clothing
British laundry: my fight with the washer dryer
The European Washer Dryer Combo People keep asking us if how we’re adjusting and there is a lot of talk about how difficult this move must be for us. We particularly get the difficult sentiment from locals we meet. I don’t want to downplay it, and I’m sure there are still challenges ahead for us
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Guest Posts
Ways to Give
This is a guest post from Vicki Bright, a wonderful woman that I was connected with through this blog. Vicki is trying every day to live a more simple and deliberate life with less. She is a mother of 3 children- 4 months, 16 and 18 and a step son 10 – and in a