Minimalism

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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Vanabode: Home is Where the Van is Parked

The popular Chris Farley skit on Saturday Night Live had him play a “motivational speaker” who lived in a van down by the river. It was his way of telling his audience that they would become failures and also end up living in a van down by the river. Most people would probably be surprised [...]

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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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