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Decluttering Your Home through These Simple Steps

10.25.2018 by Girl on Fire // Leave a Comment

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In the past few years, minimalism has gone mainstream. Taken into the spotlight by popular advocates such as Joshua Becker and Marie Kondo, decluttering has never been more trendy as it is now. But while the idea is simple, the whole purging process can be a real emotional dilemma. Getting rid of one’s material possessions […]

Categories // Did You Know? Tags // declutter, minimalism

Taking Minimalism to a Whole Other Level

03.27.2013 by Girl on Fire // 3 Comments

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As readers know, there has been a major push toward minimalism around these parts over the last few months. The goal has been to go from clutter to minimalist in just ten weeks.  It’s an important and difficult challenge—one that everybody should try! When you think of “minimalism” what do you think of? If you’re like most […]

Categories // Minimalist Tags // Cleaning, Clutter, Decluttering, minimalism, minimalist, organizing

40 Bags in 40 Days #40bags40days

02.13.2013 by Girl on Fire // 1 Comment

40 bags in 40 days

This goes right along with my minimalist thing I am trying to get to.  I was trying to stay motivated on my own and life got in the way.  I have still been decluttering, but not at the rate that I wanted to be going.  Thankfully, today I heard about White House, Black Shutters and […]

Categories // Minimalist Tags // 10 weeks til minimalist, 40 bags in 40 days, minimalism

Minimalist in 10 Weeks, Week 1 #Minimalist

12.30.2012 by Girl on Fire // 16 Comments

I’m hardcore this time.  On a mission to become a minimalist.  A mission of getting this crap out of my dang house. I am a minimalist cusser these days.  Are you proud?  I used to have the most horrible potty mouth.  I cleaned it up. So I am going to break it down in to […]

Categories // Minimalist Tags // 10 weeks til minimalist, becoming a minimalist, declutter, happy, Life, List, minimalism, organizing, purge, Simple

My Favorite Homemaking App for iPad

12.30.2012 by Girl on Fire // Leave a Comment

If you like Flylady, then you will love this app!  It is called HomeRoutines.  It works just like the lists you use for a control journal. You simply open the app, click on the appropriate spot…for instance, Morning Routine.  There you will have a list of all of your morning tasks.  You can fly through […]

Categories // Around Our House Tags // App, Cleaning, declutter, Flylady, Homemaking, household journal, iPad, iPhone, minimalism, Organized

Inspiring Books for the New Year!

12.25.2012 by Girl on Fire // 1 Comment

I love to read!  Lately I have been reading a lot of books about simplifying life, minimalism, frugality and much more back to basic type stuff.  Here are some of my favorites so far… Dollar a Day Challenge This book was a very quick read.   It’s about a woman that took a challenge to […]

Categories // Around Our House Tags // eating healthy, happy, Inspiring Books for the New Year, Life, minimalism, simple living, Simplify

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Photo Challenge, September 5th Until Sept 11th

For the second challenge I asked everyone to take a photo that shows emotion.  Some people seemed to get a little overwhelmed, but it isn’t as hard as it sounds.  Everyday you witness tons of emotion.  Just have your camera handy.  Kid begging for a snack?  Someone got a booboo?  Someone accomplished an awesome trick?  […]

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