You are probably here from my How to Try a Capsule Wardrobe for 31 Days post. Welcome! If not you might pop over and see what the heck I’m talking about. I am experimenting this month with the wildly popular capsule wardrobe. I picked out 33 pieces to create 31 outfits for the month as […]
Author: simplytaylor
How to Try a Capsule Wardrobe for 31 Days
I love fashion. No. I love trends. Nope. I love shopping. Not quite. I love clothes. Well…almost. I love having lots of clothes options. Ok. Yep. Thats it. Or at least I thought I did. While I love the thought of a closet FULL of clothes I love and are stylish that make awesome mom […]
10 Digital Decluttering Tips
Your inbox has thousands of messages. Your smartphone notification window is alerting you to 6 different social media apps that need your attention. You have 19 tabs open, each with some purpose that you’ve probably already forgotten. You have a conversation going with a family member in a variety of different places — text […]
What a 5 Gift Christmas Looks Like
So I wanted to share what Christmas gifts our family actually purchased this year with this rule in mind. I had said that we would be implementing the 5 Gift Rule, but it’s always nice to see the results I think. No empty ideas here. Told you I was doing this as well as writing about […]
How to Do a 5 Gift Christmas
“What the heck?” That is my 3 yr olds favorite phrase right now. And with her inflection it’s pretty funny- but don’t tell her because I don’t want it to stick around forever! Although I have realized how much I say it now, I even wrote it in a post! So I blame mom. A […]
How to Have Your Christmas & Minimize It Too
The big issue? The house diet months just happened to fall on the two biggest holiday times of the year! I made my 360 calendar a while back not sure when I would really start it. A series of life events we will call them sorta postponed my plans over and over again. But […]
15 Ways to Experience Christ-mas
With all of the shiny wrapping paper, box deliveries, and store “sales” drawing us to the more material side of Christmas, it can take some effort to keep our celebrations centered on Christ. However, remembering Him is what will help us feel the true joy of the Christmas season and help us focus on it’s […]
How to Declutter Your House in 15 Minutes a Day
I am itching to run through my house like a madwoman in the middle of the night and stuff my car full of everything from every cabinet and closet and drawer, like, tonight. You guys. Ever since I started this journey, reading the books and blogs, seeing the before and after photos, the stuff in my […]
How I Rise & Shine
When do you wake up? Are you good at waking up early? Are you a morning person? Waking up early for me is really hard. I mean, like, REALLY hard. When I read the section in Ruth Soukup’s book, Living Well Spending Less, about how she has set up her morning routine I thought, “YES! […]
My 5 Core Values
These are the 5 top values I’ve discovered for myself through a long but very rewarding process. Probably the most fulfilling and rewarding thing I have ever done. Honestly. And I have kids. Ok. Maybe they are a tie- but only because I have new perspective that is making my mom-dom oh so much more rewarding! […]