Archive for May 2018
Discover 8 New Ways to be More Mindful with Your Shopping
Note: This is a guest post from Elysha Lenkin at elyshalenkin.com. After spending years working on commercial shoots, she has expanded her business to include personal styling so she can help women create a wardrobe filled only with items they love and want to wear. My name is Elysha, and I’ve been a wardrobe stylist…
Read MorePractical Minimalism for Real-Life Families
People often ask how I can be a minimalist with so many children. Because children = mountains of stuff, right?! Well, yes, every person you have in your home means all the stuff they need to live has to be in the house as well, so with more people comes more stuff. But it doesn’t…
Read MoreI Can’t Keep my House Clean, What’s Wrong with Me?!
Ten years ago, this was a common phrase out of my mouth. I didn’t notice anyone in my peer group with a home in the same shape as mine. I didn’t really understand how to maintain a clean house and after failing at it for the last ten years I felt like a complete idiot.…
Read MoreDecluttering 101
Step 1: Start with daily tasks Let me just tell you this now: Setting up a morning and evening habit of doing a quick tidy in the kitchen and washing the dishes makes all the difference in the world. And if you don’t believe me, I challenge you to try it for a month and…
Read More3 Steps to Take as a Beginning Minimalist Mom
Get up earlier than the kids Minimalism is shifting your mindset from a negative-focus, me-focus or reward-focus approach to life. Those are things that every human struggles with, we are a very self-oriented group, so shifting the way our mind works takes intentional effort. But, one of the easiest ways to combat that me-focused thinking is…
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