Thanks for visiting Simple Mom. If you subscribe to the blog via RSS feed or via email, you’ll get helpful tips and encouragement for simplifying life at home sent straight to you, for free!This past weekend, my husband and I repainted our living room. A few years of kids running around and putting scuffs and [...]
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Having moved countless times in the past decade, I’ve grown to appreciate a minimalist look to the decor in my home. The stuff we’ve chosen to keep and hang on our walls is stuff we truly love. There are so many great choices for art, there’s no need to default to cookie cutter motel room-style [...]
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Written by home columnist Emily Walker of Remodeling This Life. New or old, every home has a story. Every story begins somewhere, and some go back farther than others. One of the benefits to our recent economy is this: more people are buckling down, staying still, finding contentment with where they are and learning to [...]
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Written by home columnist Emily Walker of Remodeling This Life. Summer is creeping up quickly — long days with early sunrises and late sunsets. Days full of sunshine and endless possibility. Summertime is a time for the outdoors — soaking up sun and recovering from the days of winter of being cooped up indoors. Summer [...]
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This post was first published on June 19, 2009. I thought it apropos after this past month’s emphasis on decluttering and spring cleaning. Basically, if you’re going to keep it — use it. A few years ago, I read this excerpt from one of Erma Bombeck’s columns, when she discovered she was dying from cancer [...]
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Yesterday I was over at (in)courage, talking more about the internal, spiritual side of spring cleaning. Specifically, I’m talking about decluttering — why do we hold on to our stuff? What does it say about what’s going on inside us? From the post: • Do I keep an endless supply of coffee mugs just in [...]
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Simple living means something different to each of us. Urban or rural, working out of the home or not, raising older kids or newborns, driving or walking – we each have aspects of our individual lives that make our days simpler. Small steps in life can make moments at home easier. Let’s face it, we [...]
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