There are many ways in which people unknowingly sabotage their ability to Live Simply, but perhaps none so rampant as the commitment-phobic tendency to have numerous little storage vessels rather than one, cohesive unit. A person might have several different holders for papers: three accordion files and two folders and a handful of binders and a bankers box or two--and these all live in various locations throughout a person's home. Another might have many little ...

It is positively getting to be that weathery time of year. Withstanding the various strains of precipitation, the plummeting temperatures, and the dry hands is feat enough. Having to deal with all the weather preparedness accoutrement is quite another--wet boots, coats upon coats upon slickers upon jackets upon sweaters-posing-as-coats, umbrellas (but never these in Seattle), gloves and hats and scarves and mittens and are we sure we were ever meant to live in climates that ...

Judgement; we all do it, we all hate the feeling of it being done to us. We hate the realization we're doing it to others. For such free-willed, fortunate people, we spend so much of our life worrying about what others will think of our choices. This can be true to crippling extents--there are so many people who feel as though they have to purposefully conceal their true purpose and their true selves for fear ...

Regardless of how unconcerned the guy working at Home Depot tool rental was about a single other soul coming in to rent out their power washer during the very last week of October in Michigan, I say the time is now to get your toots outside and handle whatever needs to be handled out there. It's not just me--a couple of my clients this past week have had the same thought, and thus I've spent ...

Adding to our ever-growing, always ongoing list, and in no particular order: 12 more things you really don't have to feel badly about letting go of. And, go!   1. Book jackets. Children's book or regular hardback, you just don't have to go on hoarding those discarded book jackets anymore. Your kids aren't going to stop taking them off of the books if they're in the habit of doing so. Turns out, they still read ...