Simplicity Shared

Simplicity’s Christmas

Now that it’s the 3rd of December I feel it’s o.k to mention the ‘C’ word.  I struggle to get my head around even thinking about Christmas before December. As mentioned in, my last post, ‘Simplicity & Self’ I’ve been forced to slow down for health reasons during the last couple of months, and self-care has taken priority over being busy. I recently read a brilliant book by Dr Libby Weaver called…

  This photograph, I took recently, symbolises my journey toward simplifying my life. Travelling along a path that although quite soft underfoot, also has it’s sharp stones, shells and thorns that cause a brief moment of pain. Walking in the sand takes that extra bit of effort and energy with each step, and yet, there is the lure of wide open space and the refreshing ocean that gives me hope and…

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet on the post front lately. I needed to take some time to retreat and re-assess. I felt like only a couple of months into creating this blog I had already started to lose track of my initial intentions for starting it. I wanted to reconsider my motivations, and reasons, for sharing about our families simplifying process – one that I’m still very much learning from. I had…

Simplicity’s Child – Bedroom continued…

Here is another look into our simplified home. This is my six year old son’s bedroom. I covered quite a bit about our simplification process in my post about my daughter’s room. A similar approach has been taken to my boy’s room. He has had an extra two years to accumulate stuff. He like’s to have more of a say in what stays and go’s whenever we try to de-clutter. Toy’s that he hasn’t played with…

Simplicity’s Child – bedroom

If you have read my blog post ‘Simplicity & Shelter’ you will know that we camped in our tent for three months. During that time I learnt a lot about simplicity – about what we do, and don’t, need and I commented that I would let you know what changes we made when we moved back into a house. We spent the remainder of the the year house sitting, spending some time visiting family in the UK and…

Simplicity’s Child: Clothes continued ….

Following on from my last post about simplifying children’s clothes, I’d like to add a little bit about quantity vs. quality. In our modern day, consumer driven, fast fashion society it can be easy for kids to get caught up in this cycle too, even if they aren’t the one’s spending the money. There are so many shops out there selling poorly made clothes at a cheap price and expecting us to keep…

Simplicity’s Child: Clothes

I’m going to start a series on simple living with children, mostly because that’s what I feel most passionate about at the moment, and it’s the area that I find most challenging. Children come into the world wanting, and needing, very little – love, food, warmth, protection…they could actually survive pretty well without a lot of material things. Yet, our materialistic society –  media,…

Simplicity’s Style

Thoughts on minimalism, our individual journey’s and style… Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about the last couple of days… I remember watching an episode of grand designs, years ago, where the couple were what you would probably refer to as ‘extreme’ minimalists. I remember thinking that I could never be a minimalist, because I didn’t like the stark space that seemed clinical and…

Simplicity’s Lessons

The story of simplifying life by living in our tent… Following on from my last post, once we had reduced our possessions, given some to friends to borrow and stored the rest, it was time to move into our tent. This wasn’t just for a holiday or to travel, we lived under canvas for three months, whilst mostly carrying on with our day to day lives, my husband still had to go to work, I was still…

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When we handed in our notice on our large three bedroom rental property, we were faced with the challenge of massively reducing our possessions. I wouldn’t say we had excessive amounts of stuff, we probably had the usual amount of belongings accumulated over eight years, with two young children, hobbies and my, slight tendency, toward scouring second hand shops for bargains. If you had come over…

This blog is about Sharing my family’s journey as we attempt to create a simpler way of living. I have got heaps to learn, read about, discover, trial & experience when it comes to simplifying. I know that the journey isn’t always going to be easy, but I also know that we’re on the right track. I’m not sure there is a final destination, an ultimate goal or picture of what our life will end up…