Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (And Your Last Chance to Join Uncluttered for Free.)

Fill your life with stories to tell, not stuff to show.

The simplicity/minimalism movement is a beautiful community. And I enjoy any opportunity to promote writing that encourages people to live more by owning less.

So fix yourself a nice warm cup of coffee or tea. Find a quiet moment this weekend. And enjoy some encouraging words to inspire more simplicity in your life today.

—

Join Uncluttered for Free. Our 12-week Uncluttered online course is strategically packaged for one purpose: to help you declutter your home and start living a better life. This Spring, we are offering free access to the course—so far, over 5,000 people have signed up. It’s going to be amazing! But this is the last weekend to register. Here’s the information.

—

Parents Are Bankrupting Themselves to Look Adequate | Bloomberg by Megan McArdle. “The primary reason people have so much trouble saving is that they can always find a reason to justify not doing so.”

Americans don’t like to buy stuff anymore – and that’s a problem | Yahoo Finance by Rick Newman. The shift in attitudes among young people is most striking.

Fear Is Why We Have Too Much Stuff | Zen Habits by Leo Babauta. Fear is what causes us to buy things we don’t really need. Fear keeps us holding onto stuff we don’t need.

Collect Memories, Not Stuff | No Sidebar by Kerry Ogden. When it comes to ridding life of extraneous things, these three questions are instrumental.

from Becoming Minimalist http://ift.tt/1O2ve0c