Ironically, this blog has made it into my decluttering pile. Once you declutter „things“ long enough, you start decluttering other aspects of your life and question the reason and purpose of time commitments, relationships, etc. I am two years behind with creating our family photo books and half a year behind writing in the funny-things-our-kids-do-and-say…
Category: Things
Is It Therapy?
Sometimes when I talk to friends about saving money and buying things, we often get carried away about WHY we buy all those things, and everyone has different reasons, and it’s so hard to discuss all of them during small talk. So I thought I’d make a list of all the possibilities I can think…
German Minimalism?
Our decluttering journey has been pretty successful and gotten pretty far, especially since my husband jumped on board last year. We started the new year by scrapping a metal shed, which we both had disliked since we got it. We redistributed its content and sold more than half of it. So since our decluttering has…
Decluttering with Kids
During the peak of my decluttering high, I would mention how great it felt to other moms, and how my kids play better with their toys now, how clean-up is manageable, and all that. I usually heard the same responses: Oh, I would love that too, but it’s hard with the kids around. Or: My…
Typewriter Minimalism, not typewritten
Ever since my love for typewriters ignited around six weeks ago, and I publicly admitted to it, I received my fair share of skepticism and disbelief. It wasn’t just of the people around me, I also felt quite ashamed and embarrassed myself, having praised minimalism as a true life changer. Which I still believe, by…
Christmas Minimalism
The title could as well be black milk. I told a friend the other day, „Bei Weihnachtssachen hört bei mir der Minimalismus auf.“ / „Minimalism stops for me at Christmas things.“ She answered, „Ha, na da bin ich ja beruhigt.“ / „Good, that’s reassuring.“ But I think that depends on the perspective. After the last…
Brain Storage
We don’t have walk-in closets, or built-in closets, or wall closets, or whatever you call it. The only storage we have in our thousand-square foot home, is behind a curtain along the shorter side of our rectangular house, using up the space below a vaulted ceiling. That’s also where we keep our clothes, and behind…
Thankful
I Fell in Love with Erika
It all started while listening to the podcast Dead Eyes. In his podcast, the actor Connor Ratliff is trying to cope with losing a role in Band of Brothers years ago, because Tom Hanks thought he had dead eyes. Supposedly. Last week I listened to episode 12 of the second season, and Connor ends it…