If you grew up without a cell phone, do you remember how Sundays felt like during high school?I would sleep in, have a long breakfast, and didn’t feel like doing schoolwork at all. There was not much on TV and with my parents around, it wasn’t fun watching television anyways, or it was occupied by…
Category: Where We Come From
The Joy of Deficits
I often realize that I start my posts with „a friend and I have been talking…“. But it’s true, like many others I do gain a lot of input from people around me. So, a friend and I were talking the other day about family members. How you can’t choose the family you are born…
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 Your Schedule
I asked Andreea, if she has an idea for this week’s blog, and she suggested „decluttering your schedule“. My first thought was, yes, great idea, I can definitely do that. Then my second thought was, but I am not very good at it myself, especially lately. Right now I feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and overextended. I…
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…
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…
Money Gods
I came across Madame Moneypenny, quite a while ago, then I read Mindful Money, and I listened to The Millionaires Next Door, and learned about the FIRE movement. My mind was blown away. My whole money believe-system was shattered. In a good way. I used to believe that:You had to be a millionaire in order…
My Grandma the Minimalist
„Was willst du dieses Jahr zu Weihnachten?“ / „What do you want for Christmas this year?“, I would often ask my grandma, and every time she would reply: „Ich brauch’ nichts, ich hab doch schon alles.“ / „I don’t need anything, I already have everything.“ My mother often complained that my grandmother, her mother, would…