Vacation Minimalists-Part #1 The family story illustrated here is what it was like going on a vacation with my family before we were Minimalists.   One day a family decided to go on a family vacation. (This always sounds like a good idea on paper, but often goes haywire when you try to put it in action.) […]

Vacation Minimalists-Part #3: Vacation Minimalists   Now, with what we’ve just learned in mind let’s see the same family, same vacation, but this time a different outlook on what to take…….   One day a family decides to go on a family vacation. The kids are excited, but don’t get super wound up because the house is […]

Vacation minimalists-Part #2: The Basics   What are the basics?   Depending on how you look at it the basics can be a lot of things. To some people it’s: One of everything in their closet, (you never can predict what the weather is going to be like, or if your new found crush is just around […]

I think being fourteen just screams hyper stuff consumer right from the start. I was surrounded by lots of stuff that I never used, I had no peace, and no joy. At first I thought that being a teenage minimalist in today’s society would be really, really, hard. Everyone around me was always telling me what I […]