75 Activities for Screen Free Week
Screen Free Week starts today. I am wrapping up my odds & ends, setting an auto-responder up on my email account, updating my Facebook profile image, and pre-scheduling blog posts. Download our printable list of 75 Screen Free Activities! Growing up, my neighbor had a Blow Up Your TV bumper sticker. As a child, I ...
Spring Desktop Organizer
Are you sick of folders, files and shortcuts laying around all over your desktop? Last year, many of us joined together for the Get Rid of 100 Things Challenge. One of the participants caught me off guard when she informed me she did a digital version of the challenge. Absolutely brilliant. We took the concept ...
Lunch Monkeys
Bart Simpson: And every night the monkey butlers will regale us with jungle stories. Nelson: How many monkey butlers will there be? Bart Simpson: One at first, but he’ll train others. “The Simpsons” Das Bus (1998) What I wouldn’t give for a set of monkey butlers, or maybe house fairies, to do daily chores at ...
The Story of Our Crap, I Mean “Stuff”
Empowering, liberating, therapeutic… these are all words I would use to describe our 100 Thing Weekend which quickly escalated to well over 1K things. We cleaned house, quite literally. It involved two carloads of donations, a trip to the local consignment shop, and a few garbage bags of trash. Shad and I are going to ...
Trash It Guilt Free :: 100 Things Update
I am up to 64 items as of this moment. Many of you surpassed me this week. You guys ROCK. Not quite sold on the idea yet? Take a lesson on life from a five year old. Read this insightful article from the blog Organizing Our Way. In the end if you simplify with She-ra ...
Take 100 things off your house’s waistline
Shad sent a text saying, “Let’s do 100 things this weekend” I paused. “Sure, 100 things, why not?” *Imagine this phrase in a sing-song, high pitch, and sarcastic voice. Then he purposed a unique plan… Over the course of this week let’s get rid of 100 things. Join us. Grab a garbage bag and make ...
You want me to do what?
Can you imagine owning only 100 things? Over our front entry I have a crafted sign that reads, “Simplify.” I try to look at it and repeat the word each time I leave the house. Owning only 100 things is a bit drastic even in my mind, but I couldn’t resist this review while I ...
Simplify with She-ra?
Over our front entry I have a crafted sign that reads, “Simplify.” Sometimes simplify means taking one extracurricular class instead of two, sometimes it means boxed mac & cheese for dinner instead of homemade, and… sometimes it means giving your child a piece of red material instead of a Superman costume. If you give your ...









