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Bathrooms have an aura all their own. While pretending to be mini-spas, household bathrooms actually hide everyone’s dirty secrets. If anyone should want to know what perfume you wear, what kind of deoderant you need, or even what meds you’re on, the bathroom’s ready to spill its guts.
As much as the [...]

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Storage stores seduce you with promises of simplicity, order, and decluttering bliss. The truth? It’s just more stuff. Even worse, it’s more expensive than the stuff you put in it half the time. That Container Store catalog? Consider it organization porn.
What Is Meta Stuff?
So what is Meta Stuff? Meta [...]

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You’ve probably heard of the “pay yourself first” idea before. It’s common advice in the personal finance world, since it’s a great way to save. When you pay yourself first, you ensure that you always get a cut of each paycheck, even before the phone company, insurance office, and [...]

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I recently read Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill. I found it to be loaded with insight as well as very entertaining. In it, Underhill describes methods stores use to encourage buyers to shop, or the mistakes they’re making that make people to leave empty-handed.
The book is fascinating [...]

Welcome to visitors from Blogging Without a Blog! At On Simplicity, I write about simplifying life as a way to experience joy and abundance. If you’ve never visited before, you may want to check out the following posts to get an idea of what the blog is about–and thanks for visiting!
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It can be hard to transition from your busy work day to relaxing at home. With your body geared up and your mind worn out, no wonder people choose television as a way to unwind and relax at the end of the work day. There’s a better way to relax, though—one that leaves you [...]

External hard drives rank somewhere up there with refrigerated cookie dough as being the best inventions of the last couple decades. With an external hard drive, you can:

Save massive amounts of stuff without slowing down your main computer
Access a wide variety of materials with a single search
Make it easy to switch to a new [...]

Delaying action gets a bad name, specifically: procrastination. The term procrastination implies that action is needed and is being avoided for no meaningful reason. That certainly doesn’t sound good. Take a deeper look, though, and see that sometimes, procrastination is a good thing.
By delaying action, we give ourselves a chance to change [...]