Well y’all, I can happily say that I went a full 30 days with *basically* no added sugar. I say basically because I did have a few things with added sugar in them like bbq sauce, but it was less than a hand full of times over the 30 days. The way I decided to do it was I would only eat things with naturally occurring sugar, like fruit. I…
Shopping? As a Minimalist? That’s a thing? Is it allowed? Yes, yes it is. Minimalism is not deprivation for the sake of deprivation. That’s asceticism. In my world, I don’t want to deprive myself of something I enjoy just “because I should” as someone who chooses a simpler lifestyle. I heard a podcast once that talked about putting our resources toward the things that we love and enjoy and saving…
shop this look shop this look shop this look shop this look shop these two looks shop this date night look Happy Friday! This is the first Work Wear Friday post in a long while. I’m trying to get back in a rhythm of sharing my work week looks to 1, help other ladies see that capsule wardrobes don’t have to be boring or involve the same thing over and…
Over the last year, I think I’ve grown more as a person than I have in all of my 20s combined. I fully embraced Minimalism in January of 2019 and it’s been such an awesome learning experience. I’ve really gotten to know myself in so many new ways and my entire mindset has changed in the process. But it’s also kicked my ass in ways I wasn’t expecting at all.…
Since the beginning of 2019, I’ve been trying a little experiment. You might be familiar with the idea of a “no buy” year, or you’ve possibly heard it called a shopping ban. The idea is to battle the consumeristic tendencies we have in our lives and create new, more intentional habits by limiting what we buy to the bare essentials like food, gas, rent, etc. To help remind us that…
Getting into the mindset to declutter is a process. You have to have the desire to start and it can be really daunting if you have a house full of stuff. Then, once you get started, there are those things that make you hesitate. You ask yourself “do I need this?” and although you haven’t even touched it, thought about it, or known it was there for months (possibly years),…
