The relationship between simple living and consumerism is an interesting one. As it turns out, even if you are living a simple life, sometimes you just need new things. Some would even argue that there are times when you need to buy things in order to simplify your life.
I remember reading a book on simplifying [...]
Our family’s journey toward simplicity has really led to so many changes in our lives, although most of them are not visible to just the casual observer. We tend to place more importance on our inward simplicity than on our outward simplicity, although the two certainly go hand-in-hand. However, the most visual aspect of our [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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