2livesimple’s Weblog

Stressed. Counting the days until the weekend. Thinking about bills to be paid. Job getting harder. Worried about saving for the future. Housework to be done. Yard work to be done. Things to be put away. Things to be repaired. Am I exercising enough, or even at all? Why do I buy so much stuff? Where does the money go? Why am I spending more when there are already bills to be paid? How big of a house does anyone need? Who has $25,000 for solar panels to be installed? Should I have bought that Prius that gets great gas mileage, but cost twice as much as the car it replaced? Why do items that are green, natural or organic cost so much money? If it is renewable, then why does it cost more than something that takes longer to replace, or never can be? Does one person make a difference?

This is going to be about my quest to live more simple, and yet still within society. I don’t wish to eat nothing but rice, live without health insurance, and save 1,000 little soap chips to melt into a bar of soap. I want to find change that would become a regular part of life, not something that I give up for a year to write about simplicity, but return right back to where I was before. How I didn’t buy anything for 1 year, but had my home remodeled while this occurred. How I lived without a cell phone or coffee for a month.

I hope that others will follow (and join in on sharing their thoughts and ideas) as I try to journal my process.