a rich life with less stuff
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
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
This is a guest post from Amy Suardi of Frugal Mama. This is a timely and topical post for me after reading the New Yorker piece a few weeks ago about America’s spoiled children. Amy has some great strategies here – thank you, Amy. How to raise Unspoiled Kids. Most American children are being treated
Source: someecards.com via Rachel on Pinterest This post over at Simple Mom about wedding gifts was written for me. My lovely wedding china that I can’t bear to part with is in a box at a relative’s house. Not getting used. Sure, the knives and the baking pans traveled with us overseas but the
Could you save a lot of money quickly in one month? As a household we pushed ourselves to cut expenses and make extra month to increase our savings for one intense month. We wanted to get into better spending habits. One of our goals is to pay off off our non-mortgage debt in the next
Happy to report no Freudian slips on TV yesterday. When I have the footage I’ll post it here. It was a very short segment but hopefully people got the message: stuff = time + money. Let go of what you don’t use, and stop accumulating, and you’ll have more of both. Interesting comment from a
Have you heard about post-Olympic depression in athletes? It’s very real. Even in the gold medal winners. I get this. I had my own brush with sporting excellence in 2003 when I won a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in the Women’s 8+ event. We qualified Canada for the Olympics with that performance