Simple Living

Making a Living While Living Unconventional Lives

My friend Tammy Strobel over at  Rowdy Kittens was featured in a New York Times article over the weekend for simplifying her life and getting rid of most of her stuff. Tammy simplified her life down to less than 100 possessions, sold her cars and the rest of the unnecessary stuff, and found she was much happier. I shared [...]

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How to Minimize Your Life for Travel: Books

photo credit: Elsie esq. The first batch of auctions for my book collection ended. The entire library is in stacks on the table in front of me. Books I’ve been carrying around for decades and read only once when new. Even the rare and autographed versions are going. Books have always been important to me. [...]

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Simply Car-Free: Living Without a Car

I’ve said before on this site that LiveCollarFree.com is not exclusive to one “system” or style of Lifestyle Design. There are so many ways to live outside of the default life we learn we should fit into, and they all fascinate me. Much of what I’ve done with my life has been to downsize. Toys [...]

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