There is such potential for waste in the kitchen! I am certainly not perfect, but I really try to keep it to a minimum. Here are some of my tricks and tips: Don't buy in bulk except for items that you know, for sure, you and your family make good use of it. Toilet paper I buy in bulk. Paper towels (which, per Colleen's suggestion below, I almost completely eliminated years ago), I buy one roll at a time, and I always buy the "select a size" towels, so I can pull of just a small amount. Use substitutions in the kitchen. For reasons I won't go into, I ended up with a cheap jar of "meat … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
Gifts are like emails…
...you feel obliged to respond in kind. Have you ever been excited to receive an email and enthusiastically respond. Then in return the original sender follows through with another email and you are happy to carry on the conversation. In response you receive a reply and you feel obligated to reply in turn. Once you hit the send button you wonder could this banter carry on indefinitely, will the person at the receiving end feel obliged to respond yet again whether they want to or not. To me this situation sounds a lot like gift giving. A new friend initiates the birthday gift giving process … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday ~ Something Different
Mini Mission Monday is about finding ten minutes a day to declutter. To make it easy for you, each Monday I set seven declutter missions, one for each day of the week for you to follow. It takes the guess work out of decluttering and makes it easy and "fun" for you to achieve some quick decluttering. This week I have tried to put together six missions involving items that you may not of thought to declutter as yet. They, like last week are items that I don't mention very often or perhaps, in some cases, not at all. As usual, if you have already decluttered these items or never had them in the … [Read more...]
Friday’s Favourites
For quite some time now I have been putting together the Friday's Favourite post. However it is one of the most time consuming posts of the week as it require surfing the web for other good posts relating to the subject of decluttering and minimalism. And although there are lots of great blogs out there on this subject I don't always have time to search for and read them. I also love all the comments I receive here at 365 and have never been comfortable with the idea of singling out favourites. It suggests that the others are less important when they most certainly are not. For that reason, as … [Read more...]
“Regrets, I’ve have a few…
...but then again, too few to mention. I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption. I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way." ~ Frank Sinatra* People often ask me if I have any regrets about things I have decluttered. The answer is a few, but none that I would lose any sleep over. There has been the odd thing that later I realised I could have saved for one of my children. But one can never predict at what point ones children will leave home and I was not about to hoard those things for ever. So I am … [Read more...]
Cindy’s Weekly Wisdom ~ Trick Yourself Into Cooperating
There are all sorts of things that I don't want to do or don't like to do. For example, I like a clean house, but I do not like to clean house. You may want to be decluttered, but get overwhelmed at the process of decluttering. Today, I want to talk about some tricks that can help you get yourself to cooperate. These are ones that I have used, and I am very curious to hear your strategies and tricks, as well. 1. When working at my desk, don't sit down. Once I sit down, my rear end seems to develop a lead weight in it and nothing else gets done for at least an hour. When I stand, I do the one … [Read more...]
The dreaded decision
Ok folks, it is your turn to help me declutter, or not. Just over three years ago, as many of you will remember, I almost lost my son in a terrible bicycle accident. I am certain that he would not be here today had he been one of those foolhardy young people too stubborn to wear a helmet. I see them all the time, some riding along with the helmet hanging over the handlebars when it should be on their heads. Or worse still, perched on their heads with the strap undone ~ I really, really can't understand the mentality of that decision. Please keep in mind the we have helmet laws here in … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday ~ Less common clutter
Mini Mission Monday is about finding ten minutes a day to declutter. To make it easy for you, each Monday I set seven declutter missions, one for each day of the week for you to follow. It takes the guess work out of decluttering and makes it easy and "fun" for you to achieve some quick decluttering. This week for our mini mission I tried to come up with suggestions that I don't cover very often. Some things like kitchen, linen, stationery and beauty items, knick knacks and clothes appear here often so I thought I would steer away from them this week. I hope you can find an item appropriate … [Read more...]
Friday’s Favourites ~ 1Nov2013
On Fridays at 365 Less Things I share with you my favourite comments from my wonderful readers and my favourite web finds of the week. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Favourite Comments. Enjoy! Here is a lovely story from Tam who made a lot of people happy with her donation of craft supplies. Jane  had an opinion on gifts inspired by Deb's post on Thursday Juhli also had something to say on the subject of gift giving/receiving. http://www.365lessthings.com/thursdays-with-deb-j-gifts-of-cheer/#comment-58260 Andréia gives the facts on how few gadgets one needs in the … [Read more...]