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Gifts for Mom Who Doesn’t Want Anything: Unique Gift Ideas for Mom

Moms deserve the absolute best. Use these unique gift ideas for mom to find the perfect gift, especially if you need gifts for a mom who doesn’t want anything! Moms. They deal with poop, whining, carpooling, making dinner, and maintaining a home. This doesn’t even begin to take into account working outside or inside the …

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A Capsule Wardrobe Without Rules + FREE Printable

Maybe you’ve heard about a capsule wardrobe but you have no idea what it is or why someone would want one. Do you feel like you are in a constant state of doing more and more laundry? Do you find yourself always buying new clothes from the sales racks, and your closet bursting at the …

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Experience gifts ideas for everyone on your list.

Experience Gifts For Everyone on Your List

Experience gifts are one of my favorite gift ideas that don’t add to clutter. It can be a free experience gift that you gifted through your time, or it can be an expensive getaway that replaces an expensive gift.  That’s what is so great about experiences, they can be enjoyed at all budget levels, and …

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The Best Ways to Get Your Kids to Declutter WITH YOU!

I recently learned a valuable lesson, my kids can learn how to get rid of toys on their own. Every year, before Christmas, we go through my kids’ rooms and prepare them for the new toys coming in. It works. Every year, both my children have birthdays a few months later, and I do NOTHING to prepare …

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Our Fiver Birthday Party Fail

You may have seen in the minimalist worlds and parenting blogs this new concept of a fiver birthday party. The idea is you ask parents to bring a five dollar bill, instead of a gift, as the child’s birthday present, hence the term “fiver” birthday party.  You are to get your kid all excited to …

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9 Minimalist Podcasts You Need to Listen to Right Now

I want to share with you some minimalist podcast recommendations that I have really enjoyed. As a podcast blogger, I listen to at least 6-10 podcast episodes every day. I use these podcasts as motivation in my own life. While listening to a few of these podcasts, I realized that when an idea goes mainstream, …

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Car Trip Activities for Kids (Unplugged)

Looking for car trip activities for kids? The easiest, go-to activity for many families is a movie.  Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for technology on a long car trip, but I also like to find fun car trips activities for my kids that don’t involve a screen or device.  …

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How to Limit Screen Time for Your Kids

Limiting screen time for kids is becoming more and more important as technology replaces so much of what we do everyday! The average 8-12 year-old child in America watches 4 hours and 36 minutes of TV every day according to a study in 2015 by Common Sense Media.  That’s a lot of TV for a …

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Should You Move to a Rural Area to Save Money?

Should you move to a rural area to save money? What if you HATE living in town, surrounded by noises, traffic and a constant state of busyness? I grew up in a small, rural town.  There was one high school, and we all got excited when they finally put in the one restaurant, a Golden …

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9 Reasons Moms Should Be Spending More Time With Friends

You need to be spending time with friends mama. Something happens when we become mothers.  We stop being the center of the universe, and instead, our universe rotates around this tiny human that captures our heart and soul.  We become tired, sometimes irritable, and often carry around worry and guilt that is more magnified than …

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BUSTED! Are these expenses breaking your monthly budget?

Saving on monthly expenses is one of the biggest impacts you can have on your monthly budget. We have been there (recently), where we had to count every single penny entering our bank account and leaving our bank account. I quit my corporate world job last year to stay home with my family and start …

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Keep Your New Year’s Resolution

Learning how to keep your New Year’s resolution can be a real challenge some years! We start off strong.  We have an incredible resolve. Then, once February rolls around, many of us are scrambling to remember why we started such an impossible journey.   We may not have even started our New Year’s resolution efforts.  …

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Gifts for Minimalists: Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your List

If you are shopping for a minimalist, you can use this gift guide for minimalists to find the perfect gifts for anyone on your list. Clutter tends to build up so easily around the holiday season and birthdays.  I don’t want to be unthankful or a Scrooge, but so often I feel like as a …

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Brilliant Minimalist Gifts for Dad That He Will Love!

What kind of gift do you get for the man who has everything already or simply doesn’t want to add more clutter to his home? It can be hard to think of the perfect minimalist gifts for dads if you are used to traditional shopping and marketing.  Often times, the best gifts for minimalists are …

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Minimalist Gifts for Moms That Don’t Add to Clutter

Maybe the mom in your life is a minimalist. Or maybe, she is sick of all the clutter in her home. If this is the case, here are my favorite minimalist gifts for moms. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.  This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if …

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Budget-friendly gift ideas for Christmas or any occasion.

Budget-friendly Gifts That Cost Zero to Little Money!

Budget-friendly gifts are a necessity for many of us around the holiday season.  I am a fan of not giving gifts just for the sake of giving gifts.  However, if you have special people on your list who you would like to gift something thoughtful but funds are tight, check out these budget-friendly gifts that …

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Simple homemade Halloween costume ideas for kids

Super Easy Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids

Looking for a super easy homemade Halloween costume idea for kids? I got you. I got sick of buying new $30-50 Halloween costumes every year that my kids wore only once or added to their already overflowing collection of dress-up costumes.  They didn’t need any more stuff to add to their cluttered rooms!  Enter my …

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Gifts for Minimalists: Homemade gifts for kids

Simple Homemade Gifts For Kids

Gift giving doesn’t have to be stressful and expensive.  Looking for inspiration for simple homemade gifts for kids? Check out these ideas below! So many of these projects can be done in just a couple of hours or over a short weekend.  Don’t let gift-giving cost you a ton of money or be thoughtless gifts. …

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I need more free time back in my day!

I Need More Free Time! How to Get Back Time in Your Day

There are only so many hours in the day, and more often than not, those hours are devoted to obligations.  Some of these obligations in life we enjoy.  However, there are many that drain us of any joy, and we continue as a society to search for how to find more time in the day …

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Benefits of Minimalism for Moms

8 Incredible Benefits of Minimalism for Moms

Are there really benefits of minimalism for moms? I mean, the concept almost seems impossible when you are surrounded by piles and piles of clutter. Moms, we all have the same goals.  We try to be the best mom possible and keep the tiny humans happy and thriving.  Pre-kids, the thought of being a parent …

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working mom on her computer

Simplify Life as a Working Mom with These 11 Lifehacks

As a working mom, we are often too hard on ourselves, expecting to do it all and be that Pinterest perfect super-mom.  I’m going to let you in on a dirty little secret: that super mom, she takes short-cuts.  She simplifies where she can simplify, and she is unapologetic.  She embraces a simpler way of …

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Why Your Kids Need Less Toys!

Your kids need less toys. They don’t need an entire toy store in their home. There, I said it. I grew up in a family that didn’t have much. When I became a parent, my kids were not going to go without. Money wasn’t an issue, and if they “needed” it, I would buy it. …

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How Minimalism Can Help When Feeling Overwhelmed as a Mom

It’s 5 pm, dinner is being made, baths are next, then bedtime, and before you know it, it’s almost 9 pm. You are exhausted and the house is a mess, and you may be feeling overwhelmed, anxious and exhausted. In fact, you are nearly in tears. You may even feel like a failure because every …

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Cloth napkins stacked together. Use cloth napkins as a reusable kitchen item.

Go Green and Save Money: Reusable Kitchen Items

Finding reusable kitchen items that work for a family Zero waste is an intriguing idea, but it often seems like an ideal that is impossible to reach.  I have tried…many times. I have read blogs that embraced zero waste, and I have embraced recycling and upcycling anything and everything.  However, I have failed at being …

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