Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
“Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.” Jane Austen
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It’s the last day of our decluttering week. Time to push toward the end! I still have a ways to go on my goals and have company coming today. I’m not sure how this is going to work, but I know that I’ve cleaned out quite a bit this week. If you feel like you …
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When I first started decluttering in the spring, I decided something that had to go was the piles of unopened scrapbooking products. Before I developed neck and shoulder issues and then had Caroline I was a fairly steady scrapbooker. But once my life took a significant change, the scrapbooking fell to the wayside. I had …
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We’re up to Day 5 of our 7 day declutter challenge. How are you doing? Today let’s focus on getting rid of things that make us feel guilty because we never use them even though we had or even still have the best of intentions. I’ve already gotten started on this one. What did I …
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Did you find the courage to get rid of some “valuable” things yesterday? Were you able to separate your sentimental feelings about a person or event with the object you associate with it? Good for you if you succeeded. If not, keep trying! It took me a number of years to get to the point …
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How is your decluttering going? Did you get rid of some old baggage? Speaking of old baggage… Do you have a problem with hanging onto things for sentimental reasons? Or because it is old so it must be worth something? Or because it belonged to someone else who is gone and you feel obligated to …
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How did you do with the first day of the challenge? Did you find a bunch of stuff to get rid of? Which room did you tackle first? Find anything amusing? One of the things I finally started to get on top of this spring was my writing files of clippings, ideas, rough drafts, outlines …
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Although I’m naturally wired to keep clutter to a minimum and have a fairly organized home, I still have spots that I never seem to get on top of. I was doing a terrific job of finally tackling some of those areas this spring when I was (finally) diagnosed with a disease that has been …
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A few years ago I wrote about Sallie’s number one rule of homemaking. Today I’m going to share my number one rule of saving money. Why? Because I haven’t been doing a good job of this and I can see the consequences. But know that this one rule makes a tremendous difference in our finances. …
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It’s a simple homemaking rule, but profound once you routinely put it into practice.
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It has been a long time since I’ve written about simplicity, even though it is a topic near and dear to my heart. This morning I was reading the latest installment on MrsCatherine’s site called What Does Your Living Room Say About You? This is a good summary of what she is saying: How our …
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A few months ago Pam sent me links to two articles: The Power of the Home Economy (now archived) and Love is not Enough: Toward the Recovery of a Family Economics (via Wayback Machine now) They were both very interesting and I highly recommend both of them. Sometimes reading about family and family economies is …
