I’ve written before about how we try to keep Christmas simple here on the farm. We try to focus on time with loved ones celebrating the birth of Jesus. No matter how simple we keep it though, one fact remains; in the lead up to Christmas, we have gifts we want to buy for our…
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Five Ways To Keep Life Simple
Living simply isn’t something that just happens. It’s something that is ongoing, and that you need to work on. While I would never have described our lifestyle as extravagant, over the last few years we have increasingly focused on simplifying our life to give time to what is important to us. So here are five…
How To Make A Clutter-Free Advent Calendar
Christmas is getting closer, and my social media feeds are filling up with ideas to make it Pinterest perfect. Elf on the shelf, Advent calendars and other Christmas countdowns are popping up everywhere, filled with little (junky) gifts or chocolates for the kids to have every day in the lead-up to the big day. The thing…
What To Spend Your Money On (And What To Save On Too)
We often tell our kids, that you can spend your money on anything, but (and this is a big but!) you can only spend it once. Once your money is gone, it’s gone. Growing up, my parents often used to talk to us about their choices in how they spent their money, and we do…
4 Reasons To Start Decluttering
I shared one of my old posts about decluttering on Facebook over the weekend. It’s one I really like (see it here if you’re interested), because it is full of concrete suggestions of things you don’t need in your house or life. Unfortunately though, I really can’t just write an endless list of items that…
Kicking A Holiday Goal – Sorting Paperwork Clutter
One of the things I find about trying to live simply and clutter free, is that it takes constant work. You never get to a point where everything is done. I’m actually OK with this fact. Things come into the house. Situations change, and things that were once useful, are no longer needed. The only…
How Do You Like Me Now?
I share lots of little projects and organising ideas here on the blog fairly regularly. Usually I try to wait a little while to check that they really are as good as I thought before I share, but generally the ideas are up with in a couple of weeks of me doing them. So I’ve…
8 Ways To Prevent Buyers Remorse
I saw a little saying on Pinterest a while back: “The only buyers remorse I feel, is for the thing I didn’t buy”. For some reason it stuck in my head, and I mulled it over in the quiet moments over the next few days. I’m not sure exactly why it stuck there, but I…
