Minimalism 2017 – Wrapup
Minimalism, the year in review Well, I started 2017 with an aggressive goal: get rid of 2017 items in one year. Was I nuts? Did I fail? Was I a success? I will have to say the results were mixed. I…
Updates
A few updates The month of November was busy for me. My wife and I took a 10-day cruise in the Caribbean. We stopped at Aruba, Bonaire, Granada, Martinique, St. Thomas, and Princess Cays. In Martinique, we stopped at a…
Minimalism Status Update
Minimalism Earlier this year I came up with a brilliant idea: get rid of 2017 items in 2017 as part of a minimalism challenge. The idea’s purpose simply to purge items in my life that were just taking up space and…
Minimalism — 2017 Challenge Update
Minimalism 2017 Challenge Earlier this year, I set a minimalism challenge for myself, get rid of 2017 items in the year 2017. There are a number of rules I set for myself. So far, I am just a little behind…
FIRE – Financially Independent, Retired Early
Also known as F*** It, Retire Early Something that often goes along with Minimalism is FIRE (Financially Independent, Retired Early). They don’t have to go hand in hand, but from what I have seen, many FIRE people tend to divest…
Minimalism 2017 Update – Am I still sane?
It is has been a couple of weeks since I decided to start my minimalism 2017 challenge. So where am I at in the purge? Have I managed to leave myself with a desolate office? Have I emptied everything from…
Minimalism 2017 Challenge
Minimalism 2017 So, in my FB and Twitter post a couple of days ago, I mentioned #minimalism and a challenge that came to me: Can I get rid of 2017 items that I have been holding onto in the year…
Paperless: Minimalism
I think it was more than twenty years ago that the idea of going paperless first surfaced in my head. The thought that we could get everything scanned into the computer and that I could get rid of the stacks…
Time for it to all go – Minimalism
For a little while now, I have been thinking about becoming minimalists—not the super extreme reduce life down to 100 things minimalism—but the reduce things down to just what I am truly attached to kind of minimalism. I’ve never been…