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I Tried The Very Early Morning Routine

The universe kept sending me messages about trying a really early morning routine. The most recent early morning routine message was from Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind. Erin recently shared that she gets up between 2am and 3am. TWO. A. M. She goes to bed just after having dinner with her family and her

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Top Children’s Books: What We Kept When We Decluttered

Our top children’s books that survived our home library declutter. Over on Instagram I shared some photos and videos of our home library as we sorted and pared down the kid’s books the other day. You can still see some of it in the ‘Room for 3’ archive. Our top children’s books cover a huge

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The Mom that Built Her Own Tiny Home

I’m Shalina, a 34 year old single-mom and graphic designer. I share my 350 sq ft tiny home with my 15 year old daughter, Katie, who’s about to start her sophomore year of high school. We live outside of Sacramento, CA in a lovely mobile home park. We can easily walk or bike trails down

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We Stopped Watching TV (And the Kids are Okay)

We stopped watching tv for the summer. And it wasn’t that hard. Our no television summer is coming to a close. We stopped watching tv for the summer and had a wonderful screen-free summer.  We spent a lot of time together as a family and a lot of time outdoors. Our oldest has become an

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Simple Living Hacks We Tried (And Failed At or Gave Up On)

Simple Living Hacks We Tried And Gave Up On Back when simple living / minimalism was more of a ‘guy in his 20s living out of a backpack’ lifestyle in the blogging world, there was a lot of talk about simple living hacks. Like, I just use one pot and a frying pan to cook

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To Live in a School Bus and Love Shopping

Living in school bus and a tiny home doesn’t mean you can’t have and love beautiful things. Could you live in a school bus? If you love beautiful things you will enjoy this interview with Baylie. She’s a mother of three, entrepreneur, tiny home and bus dweller, that loves her beautiful stuff. If you ever

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Easy Back to School Strategies for Busy Families

Easy Back to School Strategies Back to school is often marked as a time to buy a lot of stuff. New school year, new wardrobe. New backpacks. Television commercials at this time of year are yelling at us that we need stuff. We need to be ready. Buy, buy, buy. Your child won’t be ‘ready’

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Easy Back to School Strategies

Easy Back to School Strategies Back to school often is marked as a time to buy a lot of stuff. New school year, new wardrobe. New backpacks. Television commercials at this time of year are yelling at us that we need stuff. We need to be ready. Buy, buy, buy. Your child won’t be ‘ready’

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Downsizing Beautifully from 2500 sq ft to 650 sq ft

Had some tears in my eyes reading this beautiful whole hearted post that Grace is sharing with us today. If you’d like to be featured in my interview series please email me at rachel@theminimalistmom.com. Thank you Grace! Downsizing beautifully from a large house. My name is Grace. I’m in my late twenties and I live

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Kids Artwork: What to Do With All Those Drawings

What to do with Kids Artwork One of the top five questions I get when people want to declutter kid stuff is what to do with all of the kids artwork. I get it. My kids have been bringing home ‘art’ for almost eight years. My oldest first went to daycare at 15 months and

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