Live Simply

January 26, 2014April 20, 2017

Tip #26 – Live Simply So Others May Simply Live

A few questions to ask yourself: What do you need to do to live simply? What changes can you make, to ensure that others may simply live? What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to spend more time and money on so others may live? How do you define the simple life?

Kristin’s Action Plan: This has been a quote that has stuck with me for a few years now. Every choice I make and every action, it reflects whether I am making sure others are simply living as well. I know there are many changes I need to continually make and am willing to continue to learn how.

A Dinner Table Conversation

I love “family” meals. Granted it is just the two of us, my husband and I, but I will forever love sitting in the peace and quiet over mealtime. No phones. No tv. No interruptions. You see I specifically didn’t say a “nice” meal because sometimes our meals consist of tuna fish sandwiches. Or leftovers…

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Simple Uses For Ordinary Items: Steel Wool

I always thought of steel wool as this “if I don’t know what to use it for, I’m not going to touch it.” It wasn’t until I had to get some stains off my pans, that I realized how useful steel wool actually is! I must say I usually keep the steel wool with soap…

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Mending Our Time

The other day, I was reading a snippet of an article from the magazine, “Good Housekeeping” back in 2018 and it stated… Most millennials (aged 18 to 34) have admitted they only knew how to do 11 out of our 18 once-essential household skills. Perhaps unsurprising, as Home Economics has been scrapped as a GCSE…

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Packing Up Life

If you have moved before, like millions and millions do every year, you know the feeling. Where and how to pack everything away? What to keep, what not to keep? What to pack up and what should wait? Thanks to our town’s garage sale, we went through everything we owned, and purged of the unnecessary…

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What Do You Miss About Being A Child?

Growing up, every Saturday my sisters and I would walk down the road to our cousin’s house, for a “playdate”. I’m sure the constant question of, “Is it 3:15 yet?” got old for my mom. I honestly can’t think of a Saturday when we DIDN’T make the trek. Hours were spent playing in the cottonseed,…

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Inspired By A Bucket List

I was inspired. Last night, one of our youth group leaders did a lesson on dreaming big and what that looks like being a Christian. As I sat there hearing her talk about what America says the American dream is, I kept thinking how wrong we as a culture have it. I have moments when…

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