Saturday, February 9, 2008

Simplifying in details


This is the book I want: Simplify Your Space: Create Order and Reduce Stress by Marcia Ramsland . This one gives the details of how to do it!!! The other book I am reading gives more on the generalities and principles. This one will help with the details---I have put it on my Amazon wish list. Also this place
http://thesimplewife.typepad.com/the_simple_wife/free-stuff.html gives some ABC's of simple living by the author of the general book on simple living. Then this blog http://breathoflifeministries.blogspot.com/ has some help on her sidebar on living simply. Have a nice weekend, ya'll--my granddaughter is here and the day is brilliantly sunny!!

8 comments:

  1. Good Morning,
    Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I have never hiked in the East Coast area. I guess we're kind of snobs that way. Mainly because we always vacation out West and actually hope to build a cabin in Montana or Idaho when we retire in about 8-10 years. I am north of the Dallas/Ft Worth area. I haven't hiked in seattle area but we have some friends that live up there and hike a lot! A couple of years ago, my Hub had Haz-Mat training up in Vancouver so we flew into Seattle and then drove across the border. After he was done, we spent a couple of days in Squamish, British Columbia and hiked up in Garibaldi Provincial Park. It's a beautiful part of the country and the B&B we stayed in was the nicest ever! It was actually listed in FORBES as THE premiere B&B in Canada unbeknownst to us. Here's a link you can copy & paste. We stayed in the STAWAMUS room!

    Connie

    http://www.nusalya.com/

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  2. I might check out those sites, thanks. Have a wonderful weekend with your granddaughter.

    Hugs.

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  3. Hi Kim,

    I hope you have had a nice day with your granddaughter.

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  4. I heard it in a song today....something about "its not so important to have everything you want as to want everything you have". If I truly put that into practice, it would rid me of much clutter.

    Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving those thoughtful comments!

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  5. Thanks for stopping by to visit me. The blue bookends are my favorites too and I am disappointed that more people liked the new acorn ones. Guess there is just no accounting for taste or nostalgia :>)
    Janet

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  6. Thanks for the links - I've been to the simple wife - that's a good one. I'll have to checkout the other.

    Manuela

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  7. Kim,
    The book is called Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis' Cookbook. It was published in the 1890s and is in almost perfect condition ( except where I spilled some candlewax on it) and has always been stored in my mother's linen closet until I asked for it. It occurs to me that I have never taken that much time to actually look at it, but I do remember there is an article on how to dig a latrine. Something I hope I never need to know. Maybe I will post about it someday.
    Janet

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  8. Gosh, when I see this book I am sooo guilty of not cleaning my closet. I'm gona kick myself when I finally do because I know I'll find several old winter clothes that I can finally wear but the season is almost over.

    Thanks nonetheless, for the reminder.

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