…my neighborhood is hosting a community garage sale on the 17th!  That definitely should help me pare down my “what the heck will I do with it?” pile.  And since this pile is now as tall as my younger daughter (who’s a tall 7yo) I’m happy to finally have a way to unload some of [...]

I’ve been in the process of paring down my wardrobe over the past few weeks.  In theory, I have enough clothes to go about one week without washing.  I should add a disclaimer here…I often get dirty and need to change during the day, so I’m not one of those people who can survive with [...]

Somehow I’ve found that I’ve lost touch a bit with my desire for simplicity.  We moved in August and I still have two massive piles of *stuff* that needs to be unpacked and put away.  But the house is pretty much full.  Hmmmm.  That can’t be good. It seems as though our closets are bursting [...]

Part 1 is here. I’ll tell you why it is, for me, and for friends and acquaintances I’ve observed.  Once you have a stockpile, the mindset is that you need to keep it ramped up.  There’s this constant scouting and push-push-push to get more of those items every time they’re really cheap, or free (or [...]

I’ve coupon’d (in a serious way) off and on over the last 20 years.  Before Internet match-ups, I found it all very confusing and didn’t really keep it up longer than a month or two at a time.  It just took way too much time.  Once I discovered match-ups and places to buy coupons I [...]