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{Free Printables} Minimalist Back to School Clothes Checklist for Middle School Girls
This free printable minimalist back to school clothes checklist is just in time for back to school. Here’s how to go minimalist with back to school clothes.
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Minimalist Move Day 68: The Mountain of Boxes of Papers
It’s Minimalist Move day 68, and I’m on to the enormous step of digitizing paper. The one thing that lasted through all of our previous trash / give away / donate rounds during the minimalist move is the mountain of boxes of papers. Tax records, receipts, kids’ artwork, scrapbook mementos, prize ribbons from the state fair… you get the idea. I gathered up all the paper and put it in banker boxes, neatly stacked into a mountain in my office for this fine photo: It may not look like much in the photo, but keep in mind that there is over 300 pounds worth of just paper in these boxes,…
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Minimalist Move Day 66: Digging Deep For More Donations
Just when we thought there wasn’t anything left to declutter during our minimalist journey, we found we had to dig deep and pass along more stuff to our favorite charities and to the local reuse station. It’s amazing how fast one can fill up a minivan when there’s “practically nothing” left in the house! Here are some pictures of the van full before I left to donate it all. After the photos were taken, I filled up the vehicle even more!
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Minimalist Move Day 58: Is this the Final Load For Charity?
Yesterday was our end of the minimalist journey moving sale. We took all the remaining non-keeper items and filled up our living room. We posted the sale of craigslist and watched our belongings fly out the door all day. Today, we stared at the remains of the moving sale and felt strangely detached from items that were so hard to give up just a few days ago! I called my mom to come over and take whatever she wanted, which ended up only being 5 things. She, too, is paring down, and while not going minimalist herself, she definitely understands our reasons. My husband just loaded the final batch destined…
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Minimalist Move Day 52: Happy Birthday to Me!
See if you can join me on a household purge on a huge scale (going minimalist) or a small scale (decluttering a bag of items for charity) or even a tiny scale (donate 1 item).
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Minimalist Move: I'm in Agony As I Separate Myself From Stuff
Getting rid of your stuff is hard. Being free of it is liberating, but getting rid of it is so painful, confusing, time consuming, difficult, and emotional that it can reduce a grown woman to a temper tantrum of sitting on the side of the bathtub, crying and praying in desperation.
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Minimalist Coolies (Teething Toys)
The minimalist purge continues, and I tackled the coolies (baby teething toys). Now only does my youngest show a very uncommitted interest in chewing on these, but we had so many you’d think she used them 24 hours a day! Before Minimalism Before the minimalist teething toy purge we had 16 coolies (only 14 are pictured because 2 were in the dishwasher). Several in the photo are duplicates of the same exact toy! During the Minimalist Process I pared it down to what I thought would be a smaller but functional selection of 6 coolies and, satisfied with the elimination of 10 unneeded teething toys, I took this photo: After…
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Minimalist Baby Bibs
We’re going minimalist, and there is a common misconception that babies ‘need so much stuff’. How many times have you heard (or said) that very phrase? It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and if you believe that babies need lots of gear, all the extra stuff will find its way into your house. Trust me, you’ll look around one day and wonder (if you haven’t already), “Where did all this baby stuff come from? Some of it has never been used…” You can , in fact, be minimalist with babies! Our minimalist switch has continued to every member of the family, and that includes the babies. We were supposed to have…
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Minimalist Move – Still Going Strong
I’ve found each day of decluttering during the last month to be challenging and liberating at the same time. I’m going through every single box, every drawer, even paperclips- I’ve decluttered paperclips.
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Have More Time This Summer with a Garage Sale and a Decluttered (Empty) House
Would you like to have time to play with your kids, go on neighborhood walks, go fishing, go to the beach, have family bbqs, or go to the park? I’m going to show you how to have more time this summer with a garage sale and a clean (empty) house.
