Remember when I said I was going to play the #minsgame on this site? Focus on minimalism by giving away the same number of items that correlated to the date on the calendar for one full month. Yeah, me too. October did not end up being my most disciplined month, but sometimes life happens and I’m okay with that. I thought I should at least wrap up with a shout out to the book that inspired me.

Before the Elephant Mamas blog, there was another blog idea that bounced around in my head for a while. Anyone in the throws of moving can become enamored with minimalism–the concept of simple living and the possibility that everything we want in life may not be found at the mall or when the UPS man brings a brown box to your door. But I was in the midst or remodeling my house–hardly on the list of must-dos for authors Joshua Fields Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus who wrote Everything That Remains. That’s when I decided that my blog should be called Minimalist Hypocrite.

For many reasons, that blog never launched, but probably one of the biggest is that any title with the name Hypocrite in it may be doomed [Read more…]