I have recently been reading a new-ish book about the home called The Nesting Place * by Myquillin Smith. I bought this in November after reading about it on a blog somewhere. Why I will never know because I typically decorate once a dn leave it at that for years and lately I’ve been trying to … [Read more…]
Want your week to go more smoothly? Make a meal plan! Want to save money on groceries? Make a meal plan! Want to reduce waste? Make a meal plan! I’m beginning to think that “meal plan” is another four letter word. At the very least it’s really weird if you say it often enough… Here … [Read more…]
(I started this post last week and was too tired to finish it! Hence it starts off a bit in the past…) I am in a post Holy Week stupor. Last year at this time I was returning from our “trip from hell” to Key West. This year we were full blown involved in Holy … [Read more…]
Ok, I hate the word “budget.” Not because it means you have a set amount of money for something, but because it sounds like frugality, whether forced or otherwise, but in reality people who should never use the word “budget” use it freely all the time and leave me scratching my head. For instance, the … [Read more…]
Reading through Facebook today I found this posted by another Nourishing Minimalism, a blog I started following. It’s a repost from TreeHugger. I find this idea quite interesting because I have been saying for some time that if I could design a house I would do it around the space we use most. Apparently I … [Read more…]
I can’t say exactly when I first read about simplicity but it was years ago when I read Elaine St James book and I must say I was intrigued. I don’t think I ever really implemented any of it although I thought about it a lot in a romantic kind of way. I didn’t actually … [Read more…]
It seems that the more I strive toward wanting to make things a bit simpler, easier, better to cope with, the more they just get complicated. I can write fairly inane posts about cleaning out my closet or wearing certain clothing, etc, but really that is just a few minor things. The rest of our lives … [Read more…]
This isn’t a blog about saving every last cent you possibly can on anything but I do believe that being frugal in some areas can translate into having more freedom to be extravagant elsewhere. As in, you may actually be able to retire someday or leave the job you hate for something you love but … [Read more…]
So this is a bit of a cheeky post (maybe pun intended) but sometimes the details in life can make all the difference. I’ll admit that for most of my life I thought “fancy” panties were the way to go. I had/have them in every color and with fancy lace and such. But then, every … [Read more…]
Warning: This is long and painful, but so is life sometimes, so hang in there until I get to the good part. Maybe you will learn how to avoid my mistake! For a long time I thought I had a handle on our finances and for the most part I did. The problem is that … [Read more…]