2010年12月21日
physical life
My husband and I had been ruminating for quite some time about wanting to live a less cluttered, more experience driven life, when we stumbled about minimalism. We love to travel and envision some day taking our children on months long travel adventures by using home exchange. Where we have been stuck is how to do this when we live in a very high cost of living area, Vancouver, Canada, and have lots of bills.
In September of 2010, inspired by several bloggers such as missminimalist.com, we decided to simplify our home. While we only live in 1100 square feet, a small space for most North Americans, we had developed closets full of clutter. Day one started with me sending 75% of my wardrobe for donation or consignment. It felt great and I haven’t looked back.
We have documented our journey at my blog theminimalistmom.com and were surprised at the response from friends and family. While there have been naysayers there have also been many people inspired to clean out there closets and homes. One of our challenges is that we have a young son and have been told children need a lot of things. We are finding that this just isn’t true. Children need engaged parents with time for them – not toys.
One of our big goals is to work less and have more time for each other. With this in mind we have consciously been reducing, rather than expanding, our lifestyle. No cable, no newspaper and lots of trips to the library. Our biggest focus is paying off debt and we are almost there. With hard work and a bit of luck we have paid off $16,000 in student loans and over $30,000 in other debt in less than a year. It feels amazing.
My advice to other families is that it is possible to live with less and you will enjoy your life more. Ignore your neighbours and those that tell you your children need television and the latest gadgets and toys. They don’t. They just need you.
We should become friends with those persons of contents who can finish kind wes' moral qualities and raise oneself accomplishment, enrich you.Become friends with those happies, can enjoy life, live contentedly as a poor scholar of friend.
The real happiness is the happiness that the heart works properly in the life, it sometimes not necessarily so has close contact with outside physical life.The strength of real happiness, the abundance from mind, comes from 1 kind to bring up and come from to ideal of imagine, also come from and learning by exchanging views of good friend's good friend and exchanges.
Each adult has him the honour and secret pain that livings to in the clout, the real good friend doesn't want to easily touch his secret pain.
The person all was using addition while being young living, but arrive certain layer, learn to use subtraction to live.You of mind if is been full by the income heap, finally will be more tired than.
Choose a friend, be choose to choose a kind of life style.Oneself's moral culture's cultivating mental poise is the premise that hands over a good friend and equaled to open the most friendly world for oneself.Can make own life had brilliance.
A personal life ambition goes to a pass importance, decide his life development direction.
See today, a hair exhibition usually not lie in ultimate end ideal have Gao much far, but lie in in the moment having a what kind of point of departure.We usually have no lack of great diagram Wei ambition, but the want for lead to that wishes step by step the backlog gets up of practical road.
The successful occupation isn't necessarily the ideal in your heart.
A person to knew a way while working what is a rite honesty and honor is also want to have stipulation to himself or herself, the heart had an uncompromisingly being of the firmness person standard, want in the meantime to society useful, work for society.
The ideal way is to store the resources of mind happiness for us at 1:00.
Wanting to learn to melt limited knowledge will master and integrate into own life.Want Be learning and thinking, simultaneously apply.
The growth is a heart and pursues in the experience and training gradually strong, the returning of so-called life becomes the endocentric strength to the outside thing.
The price value system that only builds up oneself's heart then can become pressure vital tension.
In September of 2010, inspired by several bloggers such as missminimalist.com, we decided to simplify our home. While we only live in 1100 square feet, a small space for most North Americans, we had developed closets full of clutter. Day one started with me sending 75% of my wardrobe for donation or consignment. It felt great and I haven’t looked back.
We have documented our journey at my blog theminimalistmom.com and were surprised at the response from friends and family. While there have been naysayers there have also been many people inspired to clean out there closets and homes. One of our challenges is that we have a young son and have been told children need a lot of things. We are finding that this just isn’t true. Children need engaged parents with time for them – not toys.
One of our big goals is to work less and have more time for each other. With this in mind we have consciously been reducing, rather than expanding, our lifestyle. No cable, no newspaper and lots of trips to the library. Our biggest focus is paying off debt and we are almost there. With hard work and a bit of luck we have paid off $16,000 in student loans and over $30,000 in other debt in less than a year. It feels amazing.
My advice to other families is that it is possible to live with less and you will enjoy your life more. Ignore your neighbours and those that tell you your children need television and the latest gadgets and toys. They don’t. They just need you.
We should become friends with those persons of contents who can finish kind wes' moral qualities and raise oneself accomplishment, enrich you.Become friends with those happies, can enjoy life, live contentedly as a poor scholar of friend.
The real happiness is the happiness that the heart works properly in the life, it sometimes not necessarily so has close contact with outside physical life.The strength of real happiness, the abundance from mind, comes from 1 kind to bring up and come from to ideal of imagine, also come from and learning by exchanging views of good friend's good friend and exchanges.
Each adult has him the honour and secret pain that livings to in the clout, the real good friend doesn't want to easily touch his secret pain.
The person all was using addition while being young living, but arrive certain layer, learn to use subtraction to live.You of mind if is been full by the income heap, finally will be more tired than.
Choose a friend, be choose to choose a kind of life style.Oneself's moral culture's cultivating mental poise is the premise that hands over a good friend and equaled to open the most friendly world for oneself.Can make own life had brilliance.
A personal life ambition goes to a pass importance, decide his life development direction.
See today, a hair exhibition usually not lie in ultimate end ideal have Gao much far, but lie in in the moment having a what kind of point of departure.We usually have no lack of great diagram Wei ambition, but the want for lead to that wishes step by step the backlog gets up of practical road.
The successful occupation isn't necessarily the ideal in your heart.
A person to knew a way while working what is a rite honesty and honor is also want to have stipulation to himself or herself, the heart had an uncompromisingly being of the firmness person standard, want in the meantime to society useful, work for society.
The ideal way is to store the resources of mind happiness for us at 1:00.
Wanting to learn to melt limited knowledge will master and integrate into own life.Want Be learning and thinking, simultaneously apply.
The growth is a heart and pursues in the experience and training gradually strong, the returning of so-called life becomes the endocentric strength to the outside thing.
The price value system that only builds up oneself's heart then can become pressure vital tension.
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