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We talk a lot about living a life focused less on stuff and space and more on relationships and other things that truly make us happy. The epoch in most of our lives that best embodies that way of life.
Read More »Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.
We talk a lot about living a life focused less on stuff and space and more on relationships and other things that truly make us happy. The epoch in most of our lives that best embodies that way of life.
Read More »We ran across this video from Daily Beast interviewing couple James Casey and Erin Boyle in their 240 sq ft Brooklyn Heights, New York apartment. Even by Hong Kong standards, 240 sq ft–or 120 per person–is pretty damn small. Fittingly, the couple.
Read More »After yesterday’s folding chair buying guide, we thought we’d change course and ask about the necessity–or sanity–for sitting at all. Study after study are showing that sitting–“The great leveler” as The Simpsons Mr Burns put it–is a killer. According to.
Read More »I received a newsletter from The Minimalists entitled “Collecting is Dangerous.” It was a polemic about how collecting is often a veiled form of hoarding. Indeed, as they note, the thesaurus cites “hoard, pile, heap and stockpile” as synonyms for.
Read More »Part of the allure of shopping and getting new stuff is novelty. Humans like new things–it’s probably a neurochemical. The problem is that new stuff has consequences, some of which we elucidated yesterday. A site called Swap.com gives a way.
Read More »We were going to do a post focusing on the “The Story of Change”–the latest video from the “The Story of Stuff” folks about building a movement around less stuff and responsible industrial practices. But then we realized that many.
Read More »A thoughtful handwritten card is great, but most paper we deal with is just annoying, clogging filing drawers and neural pathways alike. Justin Klosky from OCD Experience gives tips how you can convert your paper clutter and create digital organization that will.
Read More »Several of the LifeEdited team are based in large cities like New York and Seattle, and unfortunately we are cursed with those great city’s myopic worldviews. There are certain things we deal with that we assume everyone deals with, like.
Read More »What does a 1 square meter home look like? Actually, it doesn’t look like much–it’s an A-framed box on casters that could easily be mistaken as a dog house. German designer Bo Van Le-Metnzel made this 1 square meter home.
Read More »First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi The world’s spotlight has shown brightly on small living since NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced the adAPT NYC program last week. Articles have.
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