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Declutter your wardrobe: wear more of less
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The average woman owns about 100 pieces of clothing, but wears only 30 of them. The other 70 odd pieces just get in the way of what you want to wear. And for many of us, that means you buy- or accumulate (if it's passed on to you)- more ...
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2 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
Gandhi, Malcolm X, DIY, open source & happiness
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Happiness, for Mahatma Gandhi, was "when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony". For Malcolm X, the "secret to happiness" was "freedom".While focused on different countries and communities, both were men who argued that people needed to take more control of their lives ...
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3 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A frugal wardrobe: think, then shop
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Our closet says a lot about us. Having a lot of clothing doesn't help us to dress better. On the contrary, it can make things more confusing and make us more prone to fashion mistakes. A simpler wardrobe can be a lot easier to maneouver and a lot less ...
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3 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The burden of stuff: why less could make you happier
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No one warns us about entering into a relationship with an unsuitable bathing suit or bicycle as they would with a unsuitable partner, but I think someone should. Think, for a moment, about the things in your closet/garage/kitchen/basement/study, how much of it would you really choose ...
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3 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The burden of stuff: seeking the simple life in the Rockies
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Every item we buy has a cost, or costs. The economic cost is obvious, and more recently, the environmental costs (embodied energy, The Story of Stuff) are becoming more apparent. But there's one cost we often forget when making a purchase: the personal cost. It's what Brad Lincoln ...
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4 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Urban tiny home: 400 sq ft with tub, laundry & office
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When you want to live center city, space is at a premium. In Spanish cities there are minipisos (mini apartments) and micropisos (micro apartments). One micropiso of just 10 square meters (108 sq ft) in downtown Barcelona sold, in 2007, for 90,000 euros (about 120,000 dollars). Though, technically ...
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4 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A gift-light, waste-free wedding campout in Montana
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Anna Hernandez and Nicholas Wickes wanted to create as much of their own wedding as possible. They also knew they couldn't create too much garbage because they live beyond the boundaries of garbage pickup for Bozeman, Montana.Since both bride and groom are already in their thirties they have ...
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4 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The art of manliness, consumption and DIY
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"Create more, consume less": it's a slogan blogger Brett McKay picked up at a middle school graduation, but he thinks that- at this time of crisis for American men- it could help boys transition into manhood."Boys are consumers," he argues. "The problem is that men aren’t outgrowing ...
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4 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Nothing else but happiness on my list
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After my friend Kirsten posted our video discussion on making a happiness list, I decided it was time to post about what my list consists of (It's also a response to her list). Here are a few
little tricks that I use to make me feel better on a ...
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5 months ago by: Flora user comments
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Happiness via Twitter, Facebook, iTunes... the Internet
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There's kind of a freedom to being young in this millennium. It's not worry-free per se, but there are fewer worries than there once were. Partly it's because all of us feel somewhat global. Get yourself a Twitter account and you can meet people from around the ...
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5 months ago by: RoryMarinich user comments
