Working hard to Live Simply but still feel like letting things go is a process akin to giving up your own limbs? Here's a tip: stop thinking about your loss and start focusing on another's gain.   It's understandable that dropping off bags of things you once loved at a donation site belonging to a charity whose mission you don't feel connected to may feel less than amazing. You think you've done good, but you ...

Man, the practicality of this month's favorites roundup is almost enough to bum a person out. Let's get the party started! 1. Clip and Drip Hanger Clothes Drying Hanger Rack I must have been living under some domestic rock, because up until this past month it never occurred to me that such things as lingerie drying racks existed. Why didn't you guys tell me? Do you know how many thongs I've hung over hanger bars to ...

"I love that top. Where's it from?" "Thanks! I got it downtown, but...it was pretty expensive."   "I haven't really told my friends I hired you. I just feel weird about them knowing I can afford you."   "Don't tell her how much I spent though..."    There are myriad ways we bungle the relationship we have with money, but one of the most perplexing has to be the need we feel to hide our ...

It was quite a while ago now that we discussed the Live Simply approach to the break ups of emotional relationships, which holds that, although there is usually appropriate sadness involved, these things are not truly travesties. There are relationships that are meant to sustain over time, and there are those meant to meet their end. A break up bears no affect on the significance or legitimacy of the relationship, nor on what that relationship's ...

Here's something I love: beautifully organized papers, contained conveniently in a binder. Here's what inextricably depresses the pants off of me: standard, office supply store, plastic-covered binders. No matter if they're billed as "premium." No matter if front and back cover have inner pockets (slits). You can take a binder out of Office Max, but you can't take the mass-produced, reminds-me-of-every-BS-homework-assignment-I-ever-completed-in-high-school-or-college out of the binder, as the old saying goes. (It goes that way, right?) ...