This week I’m revisiting the process I went through to downsize our 1800-square-foot home to 12 suitcases (plus some storage items) as we prepared to move abroad two-and-a-half years ago. [This was the third post in this exploration of living with less.] I wasn’t expecting to write about this topic again (see part 1 and […]
My 3-bag challenge toward living with less (part 2)
This week I’m revisiting the process I went through to downsize our 1800-square-foot home to 12 suitcases (plus a some storage items) as we prepared to move abroad. [This is part 2 of me exploring the freedom of living with less. Read part 1 to catch up.] When I originally wrote Part 1 of my 3-bag […]
My 3-bag challenge toward living with less (part 1)
This week I’m revisiting the process I went through to downsize our 1800-square-foot home to 12 suitcases (plus a some storage items) as we prepared to move abroad. We had two showings that Sunday* to try and find a renter for our house. Since I am only a clean-what-people-see type of housekeeper, this means we […]
Treasuring the Loss
When we first started planning a move to Nicaragua, I went through a whole season of purging. Oh man, was that painful. Essentially I had to look at every single item in our 1800 sq. foot house and decide what to do with it. In previous moves, there was always the point at the end […]