Some people like challenges and if so, adopting a challenge is a good way to stay motivated. Just think of the 100 push up challenge (I’m looking at you Syd ), the buy nothing for a year challenge, the no-car challenge, the X dollar a month food challenge, the no impact challenge, and so on. [...]
Day 17: Maintaining and repairing things
Published in April 14th, 2009
Back by popular request, the 30 day Makeover continues … at least as long as I can keep it going. As I have explained before, it mostly comes down to housing, transportation, and food. There are really no magic tricks other than discovering that you will be just as happy — but probably more motivated [...]
Day 16: The stuff you actually keep and use
Published in January 20th, 2009
One of my core philosophies is to maximize the quality of things I spend a lot of time with/in/on and minimize the quantity of things I do not spend a lot of time with/in/on. This way the reduction in quantity pays for the more expensive quality. This works well because in our society, quality is [...]
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