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Simple Living This Week No. 9 – Cleaning Out Linen Closet, Office Files, Yearly Goals

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Happy last Monday of the decade! With Christmas and New Year's Day falling on Wednesdays this year, the holiday weeks seem very long and less well-defined. It's interesting how the way Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day fall on the calendar can make such a difference in how we perceive the holidays. I mentioned to David that since …

Life is Too Short for Ugly Stuff

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Last weekend my husband and I went shopping in a number of small local businesses in my parents' hometown. We enjoy going through unique shops because it feeds the artist soul in each of us. We don't have to purchase anything - it is enough just to look at the design, the fabrics, the packaging, etc. It really does refresh us! While we were …

AQSL 005: Bringing Peace to Your Life and Home

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I define a cozy life as one that brings greater peace, understanding, joy, beauty, and faith to you and your loved ones. Today we're going to take a look at peace, the first item on the list. We'll look at a definition of peace and the specific parts of our life that it includes. I'll share five choices we've made over the years that have …

From My Book Pile – Emilie Barnes Edition

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If you are over a certain age, Emilie Barnes will be a familiar name to you and this post might be like a walk down memory lane that sends you scouring the bookshelves of your home for your own Emilie Barnes books. If you are younger, you might not be familiar with her at all. During the 1980s and 1990s she was a prolific and very popular Christian …

Making Peace With Your Creative Child’s Clutter

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One of my blogging friends, Jimmie, wrote What My (Messy) Artist Daughter Has Taught Me. I totally got that post as I had been thinking about the struggles of being a neat person who likes everything in its place when your child isn't anything like that. It sounds like my Caroline and Jimmie's Emma are a lot alike. Creative, empathetic, and funny …

AQSL 002: Creating a Quiet Simple Life

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Are you ready to create a quiet simple life? If you are looking for encouragement and ideas, you are in the right place. In this episode we are looking at both quiet and simple. We'll examine what they mean and what they can look like in our home. Please feel free to leave a comment about the content or ask a question. I'd also love to hear what …

Decluttering 1,000 Things

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One of my goals in raising Caroline is to demonstrate a healthy attitude toward material possessions - to be thankful and wise stewards of what we have without keeping things we truly don't need or want any longer. This year I'm removing 1,000 items from our home after being inspired others who did similar things. This could have been a goal I …

KonMari Method Before and After in Our Homeschool Room

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I wrote a few months ago about "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and the impact it has had on my thinking. I believe part of the reason the KonMari method in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up resonated with me is I read it at just the right time. We’re going through some major transitions in our home, homeschooling, and parenting. This …

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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I've just finished reading Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. I learned of the book in a Facebook group when someone shared two fictional story videos in Japanese that were made about it. After watching the videos, I wanted to read the book. Does it spark joy? The basic …

The Last Decluttering Push – 7 Day Declutter Challenge

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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 just don't have time to keep going on your decluttering project, here are some …

Cleaning Out Old Hobbies – 7 Day Declutter Challenge

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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 a lot of Creative Memories …

Things That Make You Feel Guilty – 7 Day Declutter Challenge

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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 get rid of? A bunch of Pampered Chef stoneware. Things You …

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