Once, Tammy Strobel and her husband were living a normal middle-class lifestyle: driving two cars, commuting long distances, and living well beyond their means. Now they are living the voluntary downsizing; or smart-sizing; dream. In this book Strobel combines research on well-being with numerous real-world examples to offer practical inspiration. Her fresh take on our things, our work, and our relationships spells out micro-actions that anyone can take to step into a life thats more consc...

Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored—but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, ...

** Discover that having LESS is MORE... Get more freedom, more time, save money and more, by eliminating the excess in your life and focusing on the essentials. **Would you like to go to sleep at night knowing that your day was spent as you truly wanted to spend it? Would you like to feel sure that you didn’t waste time and energy on meaningless activity? Are you tired of listening to the thundering voice of consumerism instead of the quiet voice within...

Maybe it's time to motivate yourself to get rid of the stuff you don't want. This book takes you through the practical motivations and methods to get unwanted stuff out of your home, including specific instructions for each room in your home. Considering that our outward surroundings often reflect our inner state of mind, there's also a chapter on getting rid of emotional baggage.Living Simply – Improve Your Life with Less Clutter is a collection of articles dealing with getting ri...

The Minimal LIST, written by Madison Bradford is a step by step guide to applying the principles of minimalism to every aspect of your life. This book will walk you through the process of streamlining your home, kitchen, attic, wardrobe, workspace and more. As each step is completed you will begin to feel freedom from stress and excess. At the end of each chapter is a checklist that you can use as you go through each set of tasks.Madison Bradford has helped hundreds of people exper...

Simple Living - Simplify your lifestyle. Reduce the clutter in your life. Gain control over the way you live.

“Living a better life…with less stuff.” —National PostWhat if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore.Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known...

Published in 2008, The Happy Minimalist stands as one of the earliest and most influential guides to the minimalist lifestyle. Long before minimalism became a global movement, Peter Lawrence offered a clear, practical, and deeply personal vision of how shedding excess possessions, obligations, and distractions creates space for what truly matters—relationships, experiences, and purpose. Written through the lens of personal experience and actionable advice, the book redefines minim...

The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life—a life centered on self-discovery.Fewer possessions. More time. More friends. More meaning. This book will help you identify objectives for your life and create awareness of your actions and finances, while planning for your future.This inspirational book delivers seven tangible and actionable paths, woven together with real-life stories and humor along the way. You can follow thes...

“Reading this will lead you to a better life.”—Dean Nelson, author of God Hides in Plain SightIn The 100 Thing Challenge Dave Bruno relates how he remade his life and regained his soul by getting rid of almost everything. But The 100 Thing Challenge is more than just the story of how one man started a movement to unhook himself from consumerism by winnowing his life’s possessions down to 100 things in one year. It’s also an inspiring, invigorating guide to how we all can be...

Description:Simplify is a celebration of living more by owning less. Written by Joshua Becker, who inspires hundreds of thousands of people on his personal blog, this is a book that calls for the end of living lives seeking and accumulating more and more possessions by highlighting the enjoyment of living with less.Three years ago, his typical, suburban family of four made the decision to minimize their possessions, declutter their home, and simplify their ...

Learn to master your finances with this practical guide full of tips and techniques that help you live rich while spending less.Money isn't the most important thing in a woman's life—but it effects every aspect of how we live. So if you want to enjoy the best of life, it's important to be money savvy. Living the Savvy Life teaches you how to be mindful about money so that you have it when you need it—and also when you truly want to splurge or treat yoursel...