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),…
I’m going to try something new. And because I seem to not be able to write much about fashion anymore, I think this might be a fun change of pace. Since I started really getting into the idea of minimalism, I feel like I’ve been almost reborn in a sense. I literally feel like a whole new person. It’s the best feeling of freedom I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been trying…
I recently started a new job that increased my commute a little bit. Since I spend more time in the car now, not only driving to work but also driving around as part of my job, I wanted to get creative in the ways that I spend my time in the car. Not to say that you should ever drive distracted, but I do think there are better ways to…
Since I stumbled across the ideal of minimalism 6 months ago, I’ve learned a great deal about the philosophy behind it and a bunch of different peoples views on how to go about adopting this lifestyle. I’ve read quite a few books in an effort to really get the best grasp on it that I could, because I really loved the idea of living with less and being thankful…
