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Clothing

Breaking the Shopping Addiction (8/19)
The Curated Closet (8/17)
Project 333 Results (5/17)
How to Purge Your Closet
(2/17)
I Take the Project 333 Challenge (1/17)
What Are You Really Shopping For?
(11/16)
10 Ways to Shop Your Closet
 (10/16)
Continuing the Challenge (10/16)
Fast Fashion is Like Fast Food
(9/16)
My Year Without Buying Clothes
(6/16)
Tips for a Successful Shopping Ban (4/16)
Functional Winter Fashion: How to Stay Warm and Save Money (2/16)
Simple Goals for 2016
 (1/16)
Capsule Wardrobe for Kids (12/15)
The Clothing Experiment (10/15)

Fitness

Movement Heals (11/18)
The Top Five Strength Training Exercises (1/18)
My Vegetarian Strength Training Routine for Women (9/17)
Self Love and Bikini Bodies (7/17)
Bouncing Back: Fitness After Baby
(1/16)

Food

Say No To Food Guilt (11/17)
The Real Food Balance (7/16)
How to Read Food Labels
(3/16)
Sugarless February Results!
(3/16)
My Favorite Green Smoothie Recipes
(3/16)
My Favorite Healthy Desserts (2/16)
No Sugar Month
(1/16)
Simple Goals for 2016 (1/16)
12 Frugal Recipes (1/16)
Frugal Grocery Month Results!
(11/15)
Hospitality (11/15)
Frugal Grocery Month (11/15)
Fat! (01/14)
Sugar! (12/13)
Real Food Basics (09/13)

Home

Love Your Home (10/18)
Daily Habits for a Clutter-Free Home (1/18)
Our Minimal Home: The Kitchen (10/17)
A Minimalist Cleaning Schedule (3/17)
The Story of Our House (3/17)
How to Decorate with What You Have
(2/17)
Our Minimal Home: The Bedroom (12/16)
Hosing Overnight Guests
(6/16)
Ways to Reduce Waste in Your Home
(4/16)
The Minimal Cleaning Cabinet
(3/16)
My Minimal Beauty Routine (3/16)
Sentimental Clutter (2/16)

Life

Life Update (8/19)
We Adults Suck at Community (10/18)
The Art of Moderation (10/18)
How to Not Give a Crap What People Think of You (9/18)
Look Back to Move Forward (6/18)
Deeper, Not Wider Relationships (3/18)
You’re Allowed to be Yourself (1/18)
Available, Intentional, Healthy (1/18)
Adulting is Hard Work (12/17)
What I Learned From Binge-Watching TV for One Weekend (6/17)
A Frugal Guide to Self-Care
(3/17)
It’s Okay to Not Always Be Okay
(3/17)
Practical Ways to Help Refugees
(2/17)
Beating the Winter Blues (1/17)
My Year Review: 2016 (1/17)
What I’ve Been Doing With My Time
(12/16)

Marriage

Seven Years (10/17)
I Kissed Courtship Goodbye (5/17)
My Other Half Doesn’t Get It
(2/17)
It Started With a Love Story
(10/16)
Marriage: Happiness or Holiness? (8/16)
Do Kids Kill the Marriage?
(5/16)
I’m Proud of Us
(7/13)
How Parenting Is Harder Than Marriage (6/13)

Minimalism

Where Does Junk Come From? (6/18)
Things I No Longer Own (5/18)
Back to Basics (4/18)
Things I No Longer Do for a Simpler Life (4/18)
Goodbye Things, Hello Contentment (4/18)
New Minimalism Thoughts (3/18)
A Minimalist Guide to Selling Junk Online (2/18)
Why I Make Room in my Minimalist Lifestyle for Houseplants (2/18)
When Simplicity Doesn’t Come Naturally (2/18)
Why We Don’t Buy Toys for Our Kids (12/17)
When Simplicity Gets Complicated (11/17)
Non-Minimalist Excuses (10/17)
Simplicity, Not Perfection (10/17)
What Is Essentialism? (9/17)
Simply Push Pause (7/17)
Lessons From the Minimalists (7/17)
Jesus Was the Ultimate Minimalist (5/17)
Our Minimal Home: The Living Area
(5/17)
What is Minimalism Anyway? (4/17)
Drawbacks of Minimalism
(3/17)
Our Minimal Home: The Bedroom
(12/16)
What to Give a Minimalist
(11/16)
Minimalism is a Privilege (11/16)
What I Wish I Had Known About Diamonds
(10/16)
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (10/16)
Why I Didn’t “Treat Myself” on My Birthday
(9/16)
Stuff Vs. Experiences (9/16)
“Enough” is Enough (7/16)
Luxury or Necessity?
(5/16)
Why I Love Being a Pedestrian (5/16)
Ways to Reduce Waste in Your Home
 (4/16)
The First Step of a New Journey (3/16)
The Minimal Cleaning Cabinet
(3/16)
My Minimal Beauty Routine (3/16)
Sentimental Clutter (2/16)
Frugal Ways to Hang Out with Friends (2/16)
Simplicity
(1/16)
Simple Goals for 2016 (1/16)
Frugal vs. Minimal
(12/15)
Capsule Wardrobe for Kids (12/15)
Frugal Grocery Month Results! (11/15)
Hospitality (11/15)
Simple Holidays (11/15)
Frugal Grocery Month (11/15)
The Minimalist Child (11/15)
The Clothing Experiment (10/15)

Money

Things I’m Glad I Purchased: Winter Edition (12/18)
More Ways to Save Money (10/18)
Why I Don’t Buy MLM Products (6/18)
Benefits of Frugality – That Have Nothing to do With Money (4/18)
Seven Habits That Will Save You Money (2/18)
Frugal Doesn’t Mean Stingy (10/17)
A Super Frugal Year (9/17)
Is This “Worth It?” (5/17)
So What DO You Buy? Questions to Ask Before Making a Purchase (4/17)
A Frugal Guide to Self-Care (3/17)
10 Ways to Reduce Your Bills
(11/16)
It’s Not Always Easy Being Frugal
(10/16)
My Top 5 Financial Tips (10/16)
10 Ways to Save Money
(8/16)
Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is (8/16)
Why Frugality? (8/16)
Frugal Vacations
(7/16)
Tips for a Successful Shopping Ban
(4/16)
Frugal Ways to Hang Out with Friends
(2/16)
Functional Winter Fashion: How to Stay Warm and Save Money (2/16)
Simplicity
(1/16)
Simple Goals for 2016 (1/16)
Frugal vs. Minimal
(12/15)
Frugal Grocery Month Results! (11/15)
Frugal Grocery Month (11/15)
The Clothing Experiment (10/15)

Monthly Challenges

Project 333 Results (5/17)
Sugar Reset (4/17)
On Taking an Instagram Hiatus (4/17)
Uber Frugal Month Results
(2/17)
I Take the Project 333 Challenge (1/17)
Buy Nothing Christmas Results (1/17)
January is Uber Frugal Month (12/16)
A Buy Nothing Christmas Challenge
(11/16)
“Sober October” Results
(11/16)
No Alcohol October
(10/16)
A Month of Challenges
(7/16)
No Dryer Challenge Update
(5/16)
Buy Nothing Month Results (5/16)
A Race, Some Beer, and a New Challenge
(4/16)
Our Phone Challenge Results
(4/16)
Buy Nothing Month (4/16)
Sugarless February Results! 
(3/16)
No Phone Challenge (2/16)
No Sugar Month (1/16)
Simple Goals for 2016 (1/16)
12 Frugal Recipes (1/16)
Frugal Grocery Month Results!
(11/15)
The Clothing Experiment (10/15)

Parenting

My Nap-Time Self Care Routine (12/18)
Free Range Learning (10/18)
Why Would You Want to be Around Your Kids All Day? (7/18)
Respect, but Don’t Fear Nature (6/18)
Embrace Those Childhood Obsessions (5/18)
How to Hike with Toddlers (4/18)
Essentialist Parenting (3/18)
How Many Children Do You Want? (3/18)
There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather (1/18)
Why We Don’t Buy Toys for Our Kids(12/17)
The Whole Brain Child (12/17)
Mothering Is Not My “Job”
(11/17)
Nature Smart (10/17)
Protecting Childhood (9/17)
Children Belong Outside (8/17)
I Am Not My Children (8/17)
Finding the Rhythm (7/17)
What Kind of Mother Do I Want to Be? (6/17)
The Baby Stuff You Don’t Need…And What You Do (1/17)
What I Wish I’d Known About Postpartum Depression
(11/16)
Fertility Tracking and Female Empowerment (10/16)
Shiloh Turns One!
(8/16)
Simplicity Parenting (8/16)
Will Kids Ruin My Body?
(9/16)
Life Since Quitting
(6/16)
Why I Want to Unschool My Children (6/16)
Family Men are Manly Men
(4/16)
Confessions From the Mommy Club
(4/16)
The Transition to Sibling (4/16)
Don’t Worry What “They” Think
(3/16)
Motherhood Part 3: Perfectionism and Inadequacy (2/16)
Motherhood Part 2: Crashing the Pity Party (2/16)
Motherhood Part 1: Beauty in the Mundane (2/16)
Bouncing Back: Fitness After Baby
(1/16)
On the Other Side of Infertility (1/16)
My Year Review: 2015 (12/15)
Capsule Wardrobe for Kids (12/15)
Postpartum Something
 (12/15)
Never Say To A Pregnant Woman (12/15)
Simple Holidays (11/15)
The Birth of Shiloh Mathias (8/15)
Harassment (8/13)
I’m Proud of Us (7/13)
Things I Learned at Audiofeed (7/13)
Get Real (7/13)
How Parenting Is Harder Than Marriage (6/13)
No Apologies (6/13)
Only A Season (6/13)
8 Weeks And Learning (5/13)
Malachi’s Birth (5/13)

Social Media

Social Media Lies (7/18)
Social Media Detox (12/17)
The Insta-Scam (7/16)
Our Phone Challenge Results(4/16)
No Phone Challenge
(2/16)

Spirituality

Be Still (9/18)
When Adventure is Calling but Home Needs You (5/18)
Choosing Present Over Productive (11/17)
What a Tonka Dump Truck Taught Me About Compassion (11/17)
Good Things (11/17)
Comparing Yourself to Yourself (10/17)
Just Show Up (9/17)
Childlike Wonder and Awe (8/17)
Faking It (8/17)
Instruments of Peace (8/17)
How Should We Pray: Thoughts on the Prayer of Jabez
(7/17)
The Power of Staying (6/17)
When God Ruins Your “Perfect Life” (6/17)
Modesty: Part Two (6/17)
Modesty: Party One (6/17)
The Abundance Mentality (5/17)
Expectations (5/17)
Jesus Was the Ultimate Minimalist (5/17)
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Bible (4/17)
Interruptions
(4/17)
Becoming Smaller and Smaller (3/17)
The Story of Our House (3/17)
Ash Wednesday
(3/17)
Fear (2/17)
Simple But Not Easy: My Time in Haiti (2/17)
Now More than Ever: Love (1/17)
Being + Abiding (12/16)
Humility
(12/16)
New York Reflections
(9/16)
Community (7/16)
Generosity
(6/16)
Identity (6/16)
The Bike Ride that Changed Our Lives (5/16)
Comfort is Overrated (5/16)
A Word on Contentment (5/16)
Don’t Worry What “They” Think
(3/16)
Simplicity
(1/16)
Postpartum Something
 (12/15)
Frugal vs. Minimal (12/15)
Hospitality (11/15)
Simple Holidays (11/15)
The Minimalist Child (11/15)
Happy (9/13)
I’m Proud of Us (7/13)
Things I Learned at Audiofeed (7/13)

Women

My Vegetarian Strength Training Routine for Women (9/17)
Self Love and Bikini Bodies (7/17)
Modesty: Part Two (6/17)
Modesty: Party One (6/17)
I Kissed Courtship Goodbye (5/17)
Never Ask a Woman (1/17)
Fertility Tracking and Female Empowerment (10/16)
Everyday Sexism: My Thoughts (10/16)
The Strength of Femininity (5/16)
Never Say To A Pregnant Woman (12/15)

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