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 [Click here to keep reading this post!]
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 [Click here to keep reading this post!]
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 [Click here to keep reading this post!]
Yesterday was my birthday and it was the first minimalist birthday I’ve ever had. I have to tell you that it was unusual to spend it all day packing, decluttering, minimalizing, and dropping off our belongings at Value Village and the reuse station. I was giving everyone in Fairbanks presents for my birthday! I am [Click here to keep reading this post!]
The picture above is a perfect capture of how I feel during my minimalist move process: Behind me is that light, airy minimalist ideal I am longing to create. It’s bright, beautiful, and has room to breathe. Then in the way of that goal is me: dark, shadowy, and overcast with the attachment I have [Click here to keep reading this post!]
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 Minimalist Before the minimalist teething toy purge we had 16 coolies (only 14 are [Click here to keep reading this post!]
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 it’s way into your house. Trust me, you’ll [Click here to keep reading this post!]
It’s true- we’re getting rid of everything. Well, almost everything. My minimalist processes over the last year had finally come to a brilliant eruption with our new circumstances of selling our house and moving out of Alaska. I’ve found each day of decluttering during the last month to be challenging and liberating at the same [Click here to keep reading this post!]
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