Musings
Minimalism Can Save Time
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life...
Minimalism Can Improve Your Finances
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people...
5 Ways to Manage Memorabilia
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories. Tom Dempsey Your Memories Are Not Stored in A Box Do you want REALLY want the mementos - or just their stories? This challenge series has included a number of strategies that...
My Father’s Daughter
Dad was born on February 5 so this day is always an emotional one for me. Dad loved his birthday, which usually turned into a birthday week. He saved all his birthday cards and every year around mid January, he would start to display them around the house, adding...
Long time listener…
...first time caller. I heard this on a radio call-in show when I was driving this afternoon. I don't often listen to call-in shows but it seems whenever I catch one, at least one person makes this comment to begin their conversation. Today it...
Reusing and organizing
Organizing and Reclaiming Well, despite my best intentions, sometimes I fall back into collection mode. I have learned that the best way for me to handle that is to recognize that it just a slight misstep and doesn't have to mean that I revert to previous...
You have stories to tell
Do you have stories that you know you want to tell but you struggle with how to tell them?Are there things that you keep that no longer serve you but remind you of stories that you need to process?Do you sometimes feel that you have nothing of interest to anyone else...
Welcome to [the new] Keep The Stories
WELCOME Welcome to my new - or more accurately new again - blog where I plan to challenge you to keep and share your stories while simplifying life by reducing the amount of stuff. I originally started this blog a few years ago and was generating content regularly for...
Back with new stories
Blank Pages. Fresh Stories.It took me a bit to get back to this blog after another false start earlier last year. But I began with my relaunch in December, on my birthday as it happens, since that is a traditional time for taking stock and reflecting on progress. On...
