Posts by Rachel Jones
5 Cultural Approaches That Taught Us to Declutter and Enjoy Living Simple
This is a guest post from Maggie at Mother City Time So far this year, we’ve decluttered over 600 items. So why do we find it easy to let things go? We worked in Education for an N.G.O. in Zambia and, later, in colleges, universities, and international schools. And while we were teaching, we were…
Read More11 Video Home Tours That Show What it’s Like to Live as a Minimalist Family
When I first started with minimalism, I desperately wanted to see what a minimalist family home looked like. We all have stuff – toiletries, toys, games, crafts, kitchen equipment… how do you reduce that and still live comfortably?? My mind couldn’t envision it, and I wanted to see what other people did. When I started…
Read MoreHow to get started when I’m overwhelmed and have zero motivation
When the state of your home makes you feel overwhelmed, and you have zero motivation to do anything about it, but you know that if you could change the state of your home, everyone who lives there would feel better. What do you do? First take one step to decrease the feeling of being overwhelmed.…
Read More5 Mindset Shifts to Help You Get Rid of the Clutter in Your Home
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that you have struggled to declutter; maybe you’ve struggled with the decisions, or maybe you’ve struggled with just the idea of getting rid of clutter. All those things that seem like clutter until you try to make a decision and then seem too valuable to…
Read MoreCreate a More Minimal Living Room by Eliminating These 10 Items
Today, we’re going to go over 10 unnecessary items that you can declutter to create a more organized and minimal room immediately. I like to chunk things down into doable tasks, and because I have the tendency to flit around from one thing to another, it helps me to have lists like this to follow.…
Read MoreLiving in Simplicity: 13 Ways Simple Living Makes Your Life Easier
This is a guest post from Miguel at The Simple Paradise Living in simplicity: Are you overloaded with stress and feeling like your life is cluttered and overcomplicated? Are you looking for a way of life that can reduce your anxiety and improve your happiness? If so, then you’re just like me! Back in 2018, when…
Read MoreDecluttering 2,024 in 2024 [Decluttering Challenge]
I have not always been a minimalist. Or even a tidy person! I moved out on my own in 1995, and from 1995 until 2008, I collected everything. That’s 13 years of living in clutter, raising my children, and being very depressed. In 2008, I was expecting my 5th child, and I decided I had…
Read More15 Winter Break Activities to Keep the Kids Busy and Enjoy Connection
Winter break is something I have always looked forward to – a pause in the school schedule, extracurricular activities, and everything else we have going on. After a day of calm, we tend to get a bit bored, simply because we’re used to being busy. So here is a list of things we have found…
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