Last week, a kickoff call with my HarperCollins’ marketing team left me reflecting on the promises of a minimalist life. I presented my book (coming early next year—details to come)…
Tag: Minimalism
Recently, in an Instagram reel, I outlined why living in an uncluttered home can boost happiness. A week later, the reel had gone viral—to the tune of over 7 million…
Decluttering your life is a journey that you start and often restart. A journey that, I’d argue, is vital to embark on—there’s so much life on the other side of…
Do you sometimes find yourself wishing your kids had fewer toys but you don’t know how to start minimizing? Before minimalism, this was me. I’d walk through our home, head…
After five years of minimalist living, if I was to offer one gentle suggestion this time of year, it’d be this: find time to declutter your home. While spring cleaning…
Before decluttering our home (aka “letting go of over 70% of our possessions in a year”), I thought I had this jettisoning-possessions thing figured out. It was October of 2018…
I recently read a blog post by a professional declutterer explaining why she focuses on simplicity with her clients instead of minimalism. Using the dictionary, she defined the words in…
One question I often get as a minimalist mom goes like this: aren’t your kids deprived growing up in a minimalist home? The question comes in the way of Instagram…
One of my greatest, and most rewarding, challenges of minimalist living has been learning how to declutter books. My love for books began in 6th grade (maybe it was because…
Early on in my minimalism journey, I realized that to live a decluttered life I needed an ownership audit. To let go of unused stuff—and to halt its constant influx—first…