2livesimple’s Weblog

I am ready to start posting my 100 thing list, which will be headed with the same title every post. This way you can simply select the category “my 100 thing list”, and see my most recent update to my list, as well as view the lists as they were in chronological order.

I will also add photos as I go along. They will be included to give a visual of what I currently have, and to show what I have stripped away.

I encourage anyone who is doing something similar to let me know. Let’s create links to each other, share ideas, and create a community of simplicity.

How do you live a simple life? What I know right now, is that you start by getting rid of all the stuff that doesn’t serve you. Sell, give, donate or throw away everything that holds you hostage. Read “It’s All Too Much” by Peter Walsh, and Walsh that stuff right out of your house. Also, I would recommend “Walden”. Thoreau tells us to simplify, simplify, simplify. I will butcher this, but in Walden he writes about having a few stones on his desk, which he realized created more work for dusting his home, and that would not do when he still had so much dust in his head. Focus on what is important, and get rid of everything else you can.