
Is Clutter Ruining Your Productivity?
Clutter sucks. It gets in the way, it clouds our physical space and emotional space, and seems to always get in the way just when we need...

Buying a Home as a Minimalist
As a minimalist, I always want to have less. Less stuff, less space, less bills, less, well, everything. Buying a home as a minimalist is...

Cooking in a Minimalist Kitchen
I’d been living in a one bedroom apartment for four years and then a studio, but the kitchens in those spaces were expansive compared to...

Buying a House at 20 (How I did it)
Buying a house at a young age and how to buy a house at a young age is a topic I am often asked. Whether you are planning on buying a...

Tips to Tackle Clutter Before Christmas
With the weather starting to turn sour in many parts of North America, there’s no time like the present to get ahead of my clutter before...

Saving money with your House
I’m always talking about things that I want to do to our house. I’m always wanting to finish my closet, finish decorating, put new carpet...

Are You Buying a Home?
When I was in Vegas last week, my friends and I were talking about how my friend is buying her first house. I talked about her a little...

Mortgages
Taking out a mortgage is a massive milestone in your life; it’s easy to see how such a massive commitment can intimidate and confuse the...

Why You Need Home Insurance
Today, I’m going to talk about why home insurance is important and why you should have it. Hopefully it is required and you already have...

Mortgages
Everyone knows that I have a mortgage, it’s not surprise. However, even though many are extremely against debt of any kind, a home loan...

My Plumbing Mistake…
Yup, this happened last night. To everyone who follows my Twitter and saw my numerous tweets yesterday, I had a plumber come over. It did...

Buying Too Much House
The title says it all. I keep seeing blog posts and articles about micro homes, and I thought I’d analyze our living situation. Sharon...

A peak into my insanity (AKA my closet)
One of my goals that I listed on Wednesday was to take a picture of my closet. Everything right now is still in my smaller closet, as I...

How I plan on upping our curb appeal
I’m sick today. Everything hurts, help! I bought medicine last night but lets see how well that will work. I also had to leave class...

Why I bought instead of rented
As most of you know, I bought a house with the BF in 2009. We have never regretted our decision. Moving into an apartment was never in...

Spending, Life and Food Updates… 12/5/2011 and how our bathroom flooded, help!
The weekend went by way too fast! I didn’t do a ton of stuff so I kind of feel like I wasted it. I haven’t been getting a ton of sleep...

Have you ever thought about hiring household help?
WiseBread had an article about household help, and it got me thinking. Have you ever thought about it? Maybe in the past? Right now?...

Commuting
I spend a lot of money on commuting every month. Between me and the BF, we spend an estimated $900 a month on our cars. That includes...

Turning my extra bedroom into a CLOSET
I talked to the BF the other day about turning one of our extra bedrooms into a closet. I have kind of a big closet right now. It’s in...








