From the category archives:

simplifying & reducing

Purging and more purging

by Move to Portugal June 8, 2010 simplifying & reducing

Encouraged by Kirwin at Graceful Creative I started to do my own ‘Throw Out Fifty Things Challenge’

I’ve simplified and reduced so much over the last few years that I thought I might struggle to find 50 things; well I was wrong. I think I underestimated {again} just how many miscellaneous items are contained in a three bedroom/four person house.

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De-Clutter Your Weekly Shop

by Move to Portugal April 23, 2010 simplifying & reducing

Do you shop at the supermarket, and if so, do you walk around the store on auto pilot? Do you put items into your trolley without even thinking about why you’re buying them? I know I used to.

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Simplifying and Reducing: In The Kitchen

by Move to Portugal April 15, 2010 simplifying & reducing

One of the jobs on my April to do list was to spring clean the kitchen; I did it yesterday and took the opportunity to cut back the stuff in the cupboards; anything that I felt was surplus went into my car boot pile.

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Spring Cleaning: Don’t Forget Your Computer

by Move to Portugal April 9, 2010 simplifying & reducing

Do you add your pc/laptop to your list of spring cleaning? I know always forget, so this weekend my one main task is to spring clean and organise my computer.

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Organising Project: Under The Stairs

by Move to Portugal March 28, 2010 simplifying & reducing

Thank you for visiting Move To Portugal. If you subscribe to the blog by RSS feed you can get all the updates sent to your inbox or reader for free! It’s time to reveal another clutter spot in my home; under the stairs; it’s not pretty and it needs a coat of paint, but hey [...]

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Sunshine = Motivation

by Move to Portugal March 15, 2010 simplifying & reducing

I feel inspired to get things done this week; it’s the sunshine and Shoestring.

Each day I’m picking my three Most Important Tasks {MIT’s} and anything else I do after that is all good.

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Simplifying and Reducing: The Final Phase

by Move to Portugal January 27, 2010 earning extra money

I’ve posted this photo of our landing before, but I wanted to show you what lurks behind the door. Over the last few months I’ve slowly been purging and simplifying all the rooms in our house. The trouble is when you do this the stuff has to go somewhere. Now some of it has been [...]