Simplicity Saturday

Over the last several months, I’ve been slowing down. I am buying less and learning new skills so I can make things myself. Here are a few things I’ve slowly learned recently. Simplicity in my home, my attitude, my life. Crocheting I learned to crochet when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I didn’t [...]

Finished Reading | When Less becomes More by Emily Ley

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Wear It Wednesday | My Experience with a No Buy Month

With the minimizing rage of 2019, in full swing from Marie Kondo-ing our entire lives, to me realizing I was impulsive buying too often. I decided to step back during the month of March and do a No Buy Month. The rules were: 1. don’t buy anything for my closet 2. definitely nothing new 3. [...]

Sustainability | Reducing Waste during the Holidays

Tis the season for wrapped gifts in bags, with bows, and boxes under a tree... but unfortunately, that pretty shiny, laminated gift wrap paper is, in fact, not recyclable. And to include it in the bin with other paper products can make an entire load unrecyclable. If wrapping paper is metallic, or glittery, or has a [...]