About a year ago, a friend who had just heard that I think of myself as a minimalist asked to see inside my closet. (If we’re being accurate, she asked to see every closet in my house, and I love her for her directness.) I remember standing with her inside of my closet and kind of laughing at her …
Cut Your Holiday Stress By Half with 5 Essential Tips
Episode 10Exactly a year ago, I was walking my kids home from school, engrossed in my own thoughts—there in body with my children but miles away in my head. I was running through my mental list of holiday to-do’s. Despite my racing mind (and probably more out of habit than anything else), I asked my …
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The Best Way to Simplify Your Life Might Not Be What You’d Expect
Episode 5Before I started venturing into minimalism nine years ago, if you’d asked me the best way to simplify your life, I would have said to cut your belongings in half … or maybe permanently practice the one-in-one-out rule. Something like that. But after having done both of those things for YEARS, I …
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100 Things to Get Rid Of—To Simplify Your Home
Nine years ago, I snuck into my kids' room and removed the majority of their toys while they were sleeping. (You know you’re a parent when you find yourself decluttering a closet with a flashlight. 😂) The next morning, I watched my toddler boys with trepidation, afraid of the meltdowns …
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The Promise of Living Clutter-Free
This morning I walked into our house after a jog and felt this immense gratitude for the place that’s the staging ground for so many of our family memories: Home. Granted, most of the time, the pillows are on the ground, homework is on the coffee table, and the floors are covered with crumbs, but …
The Dark Side of Donating
Our bus rattled to a stop on the side of a dirt road, the driver motioning with his hands that we should all pile out. We stepped down from the bus and into the dusty brush of a Zambian landscape. The driver and a few volunteers set to work on a flat tire. The rest of us would wait. The …
