School Days Morning Routine

  We all have routines- whether they are intentional or not, we have them. I’ve had to work hard at making our routines to work for us, instead of against us. Example: Before I would wake up when I had to, often later than the kids. Scramble to get some food in them, run around finding…

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Decluttering the Boy’s Room – With Video!

Since we decluttered my daughter’s room a month ago, I’ve been talking to the boys about it being their turn. The room was to the point that they didn’t know what to do with the stuff. To clean up they would shove everything in an available box and stick it in the corner. It was a mess…

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Practical Minimalism for Real-Life Families

Practical 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…

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3 Steps to Take as a Beginning Minimalist Mom

3 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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Four Ways to Decode Your Wardrobe

This is a guest post by Cora, a fellow minimalist mom, expert in kids capsule wardrobes and author of Creature of Joy.   TAGS One time a friend of mine told me the back of her closet was filled with clothing that still had tags on them. This made me chuckle a little bit. Being the frugal…

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How to Raise Children with Minimalist Preferences

How to Raise Children with Minimalist Preferences

Before we get into the how-to part of this post, I would like to issue a disclaimer: You can do all you can to influence a person (child), and in the end, there is no guarantee what their preferences will be, how organized they’ll be or if they will care even one iota about the state…

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Why a Minimalist Playroom is Better for Kids

Why a Minimalist Playroom is Better for Kids

I don’t remember any friends with playrooms when I was a kid, but when I started having my children, I attended many a playdate at people’s houses, always hosted at the houses that had playrooms. It was like a daycare facility, except none of them ran a daycare- that’s what they had acquired, trying desperately to keep…

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