Simplify

I’ve had a strong urge to simplify as of late.  I don’t know where it came from but it was a mysterious, deep-rooted urge to step back, slow down, & simplify.  Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Or something like that. 

I began my venture by scaling back on my daily make-up.  Many of my friends are non-makeup wearing women & I appreciate their “realness” (or whatever word you want to use).  So I cut out my daily eye shadow.  Boom.  Make-up routine cut down to 5 min.  (Sorry, I’m not cutting out anything else.  I.love.mascara.)    

Not long after, Steve received word he was accepted into the position of Assistant Brewer.  *Ah ha*  In some cosmic, moon phase, low-tide-high-tide weirdness, my soul was prepping for big change.  With our new household budget, it’s without a doubt we will have to simplify.  And I’m ready.  We’re ready.  It’s time to batten the hatches, put on an eye patch, and say “yarr”…  Oh wait, wrong story.  It’s time to simplify our lifestyle.  (And if we get bored on our low budget, we just might be pretending to be pirates for entertainment)

I was inspired recently by the blog, Small Notebook.  I was particularly struck by her post, The Lost Rule of Organizing.  *Mental slap*  I wanted to add to my stuff with more stuff.  Do I have to buy a bunch of containers to hold my stuff?  Or can I reduce some of the stuff?  Why do I need more containers to hold our books when a majority of our books are novels that we won’t read again?  Can I donate those novels & find myself with plenty of bookshelf space?  Why do I need more containers to organize our bathroom closet when one of the reasons it's cluttered is because we have five bottles of sunscreen?  It’s the principal of the matter.

So that’s where I see us headed with our new adventure.  Life is going to simplify.  We’re going to simplify.  Our budget is definitely going to simplify.  But that’s part of the grand adventure, no?

We’ll keep you updated as we enter this new time.  Cheers to change!