The True Cost of Clutter
This amazing guest post is written by Kate Carpenter. It’s an excerpt from her book ENUFF: Eliminate the Needless, Useless, Foolish, and Frivolous. Clutter seems like such a simple thing.…
Just Simple Links: Why We Clutter, The Golden Rules of Minimalism
Just Simple links is a regular collection of curated links meant to inspire, engage and connect minimalistas everywhere. Have a link we need to know about? Email jillgaupin@theminimalistas.com. Link 1:…
simple + wholesome: Juice On!
“The best way to change the world is to change yourself.” – Joe Cross A few months ago, in the grips of another grueling semester of nursing school, I was…
6 Reasons You’re Not as Happy as You’d Like to Be
No one ever said that life was easy, and none of us ever assumed that we’d get all that we desire without hitting at least a few obstacles along the…
10 Ways to Save $100 This Week
This post is part of America Saves Week. Money is like a cake. When you get that delicious dessert, it can be tempting to eat it all at once. But…
How to Store Food
Last week, the bagged organic apples that we usually buy were $2 off, so my husband bought three bags. One went into the fruit bowl; the other two went into…
Ways to Save While You’re Stuck Indoors
Feeling cooped up? Looking for ways to pass the long winter days? Use them to save more moolah: Ways to Save While You're Stuck Indoors This Winter Related Reading: Make…
How to Release Your To Dos at the End of the Day
If you often have a long list of to do’s unfinished at the end of the day, you might first want to read How to Get to the End of…
Weekly Simplicity Tips
Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. I updated my bio page this week. Anything I missed? I also updated the blog so it can be accessed by…
This Blog Is For Sale
So, i’ve worked out that writing is not what I want to do with my life. I’ve decided to stick with the things that i’m good at. If you are…
A Minimalist Approach To Music
I’m a big fan of music and have always had a large collection of CD albums and a large Hi-Fi system. About 10 years old I ditched my old Hi-Fi…
Simplicity in Action: Caroline McGraw
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. If you’d like to submit your story of how simplicity has worked in your life, please read more here. You can…
The Truth about Simplicity
In thinking about and dissecting simplicity, I’ve come up with a few things that I know to be true. Simplicity has become a force in my life with benefits and…
Shadows in Life and Fiction
Just about everything casts a shadow, and it’s not a bad thing. Shadows help us perceive a third dimension in two-dimensional images like paintings and photographs. The length of a…
The Minimalist Photographer
You see them at the top of just about every post on this blog: professional, evocative photos that are not just illustrative or pretty, but are tied to a deeper…
all our fantasies
We all spend much of our lives in fantasies. I’m included in that observation: I fantasize about living a simple, minimalist life, I fantasize about traveling to foreign wonders, I…
minimal web
A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what’s needed for the reading experience. Strip a site…
Real Life Minimalists Update: Gigi
Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. Today, I’m happy…
Real Life Minimalists: Michelle
Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. This week, Michelle…
It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit. It’s easy…
It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit. It’s easy to get weighed down with all of our work responsibilities, paying bills, juggling our to-do lists. A lot of…