4 posts tagged “simplifying”

Sandy

I found this awesome new site that helps keep me organized in a way that is so easy and natural to use that I actually use it!

Meet your new assistant, Sandy.

Email Sandy things you want to remember or be reminded about in everyday language that's easy to understand.

Remind me to check the oven in 20 minutes

Gets you an email or text message in 20 minutes that says

Check the oven

You can also phone in reminders to Sandy by using Jott.

I know there are other reminder services out there, but this one fits into my sporadic and distracted lifestyle. As I think of things I can let Sandy know and she takes care of the rest. Check it out for yourself, it's free!

No Black Friday shopping for me. In fact, my husband and I have been methodically de-cluttering.

Goodbye

This is our goodbye pile. We haven't decided exactly what we're doing with all of it, whether that be yard sale, craigslist, freecycle, goodwill, or donate some other place, but we do know it all has to go goodbye.

Tomorrow we're off to my family's Thanksgiving. I'll let you know how that goes. 

Like I've said before, my husband is a language arts and journalism teacher. That means that we have lots of books. A few years ago he finally got around to storing a bunch of them at school (two book cases worth), but we still have a bunch at home. We decided to sort through all our books and pick out ones to donate. We ended up getting rid of 86 books!

DonateBooks

BoxedBooks

I'm really starting to have a growing interest in simplifying and having less things. I come from a long line of pack rats.  Growing up and even when I got out on my own I was all set to follow in my mother, grandmother and even great grandmother's footsteps. There wasn't even a consideration to do otherwise. Get things, keep them and get more things. It's the American way, right?

Well, today I took my first little step towards simplifying. I finally let go of a lot of my pre-baby (pre-babies) clothes. Getting rid of clothes is one of those things where it's just so hard to admit that even if I do get back down to that tiny size I once was in college and early marriage, my body is just not the same. Things won't fit the same. Not to mention that, girl, that was almost ten years ago (Yikes! That's weird to think about). Let go of those ten year old clothes! Yeah, baby steps. But I'm excited. I have a fat stack of clothes ready for some lucky Freecycler to pick up. And if Freecycle doesn't come through, the goodwill bin never refuses. My closet now has about half the clothes hanging in it. It's crazy the things we hang on to. Hard as it can be, I'm glad to be letting go.