4 Tips to Help You Reduce Decluttering Indecision
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Julia Ubbenga. After honing my decluttering skills over the past few years, I’ve developed a theory. Goes like this. Our ability to declutter grows in direct proportion to our ability to make decisions. Think about it. The minute we dive into decluttering, we open wide the decision […]
Seven Ways Clutter Affects Our Well-Being
While “getting organized” is one of the top New Year’s resolutions, it is difficult to find the time and motivation to declutter. A September 2021 study showed that “lack of time was an almost universally endorsed reason for clutter” from the research participants. The task is often overwhelming, even with the huge amount of books […]
The Cycle of Minimalism
Long before I even knew what minimalism was, dresses were my kryptonite. One look in my closet and you could see the inordinate amount of time I spent looking for them. Scrolling ModCloth for hours, going to Ann Taylor and filling my arms with dresses to try on. I was searching for the “perfect” dresses […]
Finding Contentment with Your Home, Even When It’s Not Your Dream
Note: This is a guest post from Mollie Donghia of This Evergreen Home. Home. There’s no place like it, as Dorothy said. For each one of us, home can be seen as many different things. A safe place. A location where our most fond memories are made. A setting to host friends and family. An […]
My Ten Favorite Quotes from The Minimalists’ Book Love People, Use Things
The Minimalists’ book Everything That Remains introduced me to minimalism back in December 2014, and completely changed the trajectory of my life. After watching their most recent documentary Less is Now, I was excited to read their most recent book Love People, Use Things. The book takes readers through seven aspects of relationships: stuff, truth, […]
9 Minimalist Tools to Help Declutter Your Life Now
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Julia Ubbenga. In a recent conversation with a good friend, I recognized myself three years ago. “I can’t stand the mess in our home,” she expressed. Following her toddler around the playground with her, I listened. “We can’t have people over like we’d hoped to when we […]
The True Value of our Stuff
One of the heartwarming stories coming out of the 2020 Toyko Olympics is that of Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk. Andrejczyk, who won the silver medal, announced on her Facebook page on August 11, 2011 that she was auctioning the medal off to help fund the transportation and life-saving surgery of Miłoszek Małysa, an 8-month […]
Cycle Syncing: The Secret to Successful Decluttering
Like many stay-at-home moms, I love listening to podcasts while doing otherwise mundane chores – laundry, meal prep, dishes, and cleaning to name a few. Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about cycle syncing. Cycle syncing means you “adapt your diet, exercise routine, social calendar, and even important work engagements to the different phases of […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Fasting: Five Lessons Learned from an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle
I was recently introduced to the lifestyle of intermittent fasting (IF). IF is a voluntary eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and non-fasting over a certain period of time. While there are numerous resources and plans available, I read two books by Gin Stephens: Delay, Don’t Deny and Fast. Feast. Repeat. The same […]
The Me That Could Be: 5 Steps to Deal With Aspirational Clutter
The summer sun is blazing and it’s another humid day in Virginia. I see a few pairs of shorts in my drawer, but I pick a pair of cropped pants again. The shorts are too tight on me, but they’ll fit me next year. Right? I step outside to do some weeding in the front […]