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 […]
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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 […]
Halfway to crazy
This feels really crazy. Then again, getting rid of our stuff was crazy. Moving to Central America was crazy. Selling our “rainy day” house was crazy. So crazy started awhile back for us. But this… this flying to the middle of Ohio, of all places (sorry if you’re from there, but it just sounds so […]
Living in the world without falling in love with it
I write this as two adopting families prepare to finally go home after months of living in Nicaragua with their orphans-no-more. One of the most challenging aspects of coming home after living abroad is in finding your way back into the culture. When you are immersed in it, as most U.S. citizens are for their […]