The Simple Life
February 11, 2008 – 1:00 amA clean desk. Sparse furniture. 2-4 colors. A couple pairs of pants. I’ve even stripped my blog down lately. I’m looking into minimalism. Here’s where the interwebz took me.
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
A few key benefits of a minimalist home are:
- Less stressful
- More appealing
- Easier to clean
Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
[Simplicity] means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value. Here are a few ways to get started…
Walden - Wikisource
“Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.
Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.”
I’d like to read this, for pleasure of course. Maybe it will be my new book to read, although I’m sure I’d like it more if it were bound.Unclutterer
“Unclutterer is the blog about getting and staying organized. A place for everything, and everything in its place is our gospel.”
I think I’ll give this blog a try for a while to see if I like it. Via Zen Habits
Zen Habits | Simple Productivity
“Zen Habits covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.”
I’ve been seeing this blog pop up in a lot of places. I’m going to read it for a while and see if I dig it enough to “subscribe.” I actually don’t subscribe to blogs any more. I just return.
4 Responses to “The Simple Life”
so many links and so many ways to simplify… i don’t know.. that looks complicated…
By alejandro on Feb 11, 2008
Always gotta be funny
By Dustin Boston on Feb 11, 2008
After we moved to the Alma School Place (thank you again) we decided to reduce our stuff by 10% before we moved again. And then Jodi saw when John Paul II died he had no worldly posessions (of course everything he needed was provided especially those fancy hats) but it really set us on that course. We did it I think and a lot of people are getting some cool stuff at the goodwill.
By micah hammond on Feb 12, 2008
Wow that’s a really great story. I would love to live like that, or close to that. There are a couple of things that it seems we need, like a car and maybe a computer, and of course the 3 essentials: food, clothing, and shelter. But really apart from that I guess everything else is just gravy.
I was really excited to get rid of even more stuff during our last move. It seems like that’s when it’s the best time to get rid of junk, or even non-junk. Nobody likes to move, except when you’re moving stuff into your possession, like buying a new TV or something.
Anyway, thanks for commenting Micah!
By Dustin Boston on Feb 12, 2008