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December 23, 2015 Melanie FisherLeave a comment

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Do you love your home? 🖤 Every step of the journey towards living with less (and the massive exodus of excess items out of this apartment) has led me to fall in love with our home more.

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️ And more importantly...Happy International Book Giving Day! 📚❤️ How are you celebrating?

One of my favorite quotes of all time.

Whenever Pa flies away in an airplane, it is absolutely imperative that we study them most thoroughly. 😅✈️ • #LookInsideThingsThatGo #LookInsideAnAirport #OnThePlane

. 📕> 🍫 📗> 🍰 📘> 🍷 . 📚=💓 . This Valentines Day, say I love you with something that lasts. 😉

My minimalist Home Tour is finally complete! 🖤 See Stories for details (Home Tour highlight reel).

More deeply aware of the gravity of my sin with every passing day. So sobering to truly understand that nothing in me is good apart from Him within me.

For those who participated in my #JanuaryClutterWary challenge: How many of you have spent this month wondering how in the world you accumulated so much stuff in the first place? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now that so much excess has LEFT our homes, we want to be thoughtful and intentional about what we allow to come IN, from here on out. Here are some of my tips for how to avoid re-filling your house with unnecessary things, now that the challenge is complete. 1. Challenge yourself to a spending FAST. This is something I do for a month at a time fairly regularly (several times a year). When I am doing a fast (gas and groceries are the only exception), anything I think of that I want to buy, I write down on a list. At the end of the month, if I still feel like I need it, I allow myself to purchase it. Most of my list usually ends up being forgotten. 😉 I especially like to do this immediately following a big purge such as we did this month. 2. AVOID areas of weakness such as yard sales, thrift stores, the Target dollar section, clearance sections, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. if you have a problem with buying stuff "just because it's so cheap." I know some of you are freaking out right now, because buying secondhand is important to you. 😉 And that's largely a good thing...to reuse and recycle and reduce waste. However, I know for myself, when things are cheap, the temptation to purchase things I COULD do without is much stronger. So I have made it my practice to avoid them. YOU need to edit this list at your own discretion. Evaluate your spending habits and eliminate sources accordingly. 3. Practice AWARENESS of the ways you are being marketed to by retailers. If ads and commercials are getting the best of you...unsubscribe from the emails. Keep the TV turned off. Unfollow their social media accounts. Companies spend big money on researching consumer spending habits, and they ARE sucking you in...I guarantee it. I go into actual stores to shop as little as possible. In this age of online shopping, it's just not necessary, and I know I'll end up with less if I go on Target's website and order the two things I need instead of going into the store. [continued in comments]

🐘 🐳 🦉 🦢 🦊 I’ve had emetophobia since I was a child so taking care of Arlo when he’s sick is hard for me...but the Lord has been convicting me and growing me in this area and slowly cleansing me of the debilitating anxiety. These little guys were the perfect distraction for us both yesterday along with lots of Donut Man. 😉 • Last week I added some of them to small packages for our World Vision sponsor children too...they’re perfect since they can fold flat and take up very little space! 🙌🏻 • #origami#toddlermom#sanctifyingmotherhood

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