The Importance of Hobbies in a Minimalistic Lifestyle

The Importance of Hobbies in a Minimalistic Lifestyle

When I first started on my winding minimalist path, there were many things I didn’t really plan for. For example, in getting rid of half my wardrobe, I didn’t plan to start a rule of 1-in-1-out, but it happened that way. That was my brain’s way of keeping my newfound minimalistic happiness.

Along the same lines, a bin that I was planning to donate contained stuff I would never wear anymore, but the bin itself was sturdy and small. I thought to myself, this would be a great way to continue my 1-in-1-out trend. So now, the little pink box next to my closet functions as the donation pile, a tidy way to keep my wardrobe small and my living space clean. Also a reminder not to buy more shit when it starts overflowing. Oops.

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The Process of Becoming Un-tethered: How to Get Out of that Tech Rut

The Process of Becoming Un-tethered: How to Get Out of that Tech Rut

I write a lot about how technology is so often used as a crutch, especially in my own life. TV is such an easy way to pass time, and Twitter and Instagram or whatever your social media of choice is, is another mostly mindless way of spending time that could otherwise be put to good use. There are plenty of good things to be said about social media, but if we’re using them only as a way to make our lives go by faster, what purpose are they really serving? Continue reading “The Process of Becoming Un-tethered: How to Get Out of that Tech Rut”

Why You Should Definitely Still Have a Night Light as an Adult

Why You Should Definitely Still Have a Night Light as an Adult

People make fun of me for wanting/having night lights.

“Only children are afraid of the dark,” they say.

UNTRUE.

See, there’s something about the dark that has always bothered me, and will always bother me, more than the monsters under my bed or the strange man hiding in my closet (we’re friends now, it’s all good), and that is the fact that in the dark, you cannot see.

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Why Owning a Shiht is the Ultimate Answer to the Simple Living Question

Why Owning a Shiht is the Ultimate Answer to the Simple Living Question

Writing this post, I was torn between categorizing it as Simple Living and Efficient Living, because there are just so many reasons why shih tzus improve your life. I could categorize it as both, because I’m the damn writer, right? Well no, because I’m going to keep my life simpler and allow myself only one category.

How’s that for some minimalism, you digital minimalist freaks? (I say that with much love in my heart.) Continue reading “Why Owning a Shiht is the Ultimate Answer to the Simple Living Question”