Tag: minimalist living

• June 22, 2015

  Cluttered

  I chose “cluttered” rather than “clutter” because it feels as if the objects are physically doing the cluttering, not just being inert clutter.  Clutter as a noun is inert, still, motionless, passive, benign (until stagnant).  Cluttered is an action word.  My objects have cluttered me.  The room feels cluttered.  The person’s life is cluttered with…
• March 25, 2015

  Wedding Wednesday: Why do you want a wedding?

  Starting off my new weekly Wedding Wednesday slot, I thought I would begin where people ought to – with questioning why anybody would want a wedding at all. Getting married for the right reasons is like doing anything for the right reasons – it’s a good, strong foundation on which to build.  For sure, we…
• March 21, 2015

  Clean Your Bowl

  Washing Your Bowl A concept I have come across today is called washing your bowl. The inspiration for today’s concept came from this: “There’s a famous Zen story that goes: A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.” Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge? The monk replied, “I have eaten.”…
• March 9, 2015

  How to get out of bed in the morning

  For years I’ve had a getting out of bed problem.  A mixture of broken sleep due to iron deficiency and before that, severe insomnia.  At one point I had to limit myself to only staying up for more than 24 hours one day a week, because I was doing it two, three or sometimes 4…
• March 1, 2015

  Gold, Books and Panties

  Gold, Books and Panties This afternoon, I was going through a box of accessories that I found in the bottom of my wardrobe. The majority of it was shoeboxes that either did or did not contain the correct style and quantity of shoes. That has now been sorted, and the bottom of my wardrobe is…
• February 27, 2015

  Is Fear of Leaving Empty-Handed Making You Shop?

  Fear of Leaving Empty-Handed Have you ever gone into a shop and browsed, only to feel like the woman behing the counter is watching you, and like you can’t leave empty handed? That compulsion to buy something? It can get a bit ridiculous. When I first left home, I had to know what was inside…
• February 10, 2015

  [minimalism] Planned Obsolescence

  Planned Obsolescence (or Planned Obsolesence, but that’s not how you’re supposed to spell it): My future husband’s microwave was already rusty inside by the time I moved in with him in late 2010. One day in early 2011 I tried to reheat some parsnips. There was nothing special about them, they were bog standard parsnips…
• February 5, 2015

  [minimalism] How I Chose Which Books To Get Rid Of, And Holding a Book Sale

  How I chose which books to get rid of and holding a book sale. So I worked out (between starting a new full time job and running a house and falling asleep in Italian class) how to assess the books. I took a set of about five books (I started with one bookshelf and just…