Comments on: Simple Living Myth: Trying to Keep Up Appearances

By: Sweet Stuff - A round up of "simple living" posts | FIMBY

Sweet Stuff - A round up of "simple living" posts | FIMBY — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:25:41 +0000

[...] at Small Notebook talks about trying to keep up appearances and reminds us that “most of us are on a journey to simpler living, and the process is gradual [...]

By: thursday

thursday — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:02:29 +0000

You know, I would LIKE to garden… but I don’t because I don’t have any outdoor space. How do you garden with no space? Well, and I kill plants regularly.

By: sara's art house

sara's art house — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:25:26 +0000

I LOVE this post !!! Thanks for the reminder to live authentically!!!!
sara’s art house´s last blog post ..I almost forgot to show you what I got in the mail box!!!

By: Crazy Daisy

Crazy Daisy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:45:00 +0000

I try not to worry about what everyone else is doing, however it can be challenging.

I try to instead take one thing, one new challenge, each day, each week, each month.
Crazy Daisy´s last blog post ..Coming soon…

By: I’m an Organizing Junkie » Link-Tastic

I’m an Organizing Junkie » Link-Tastic — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:56:39 +0000

[...] Simple Living Myth: Trying to Keep Up Appearances ~ @Small Notebook [...]

By: Shannon @ Anchormommy

Shannon @ Anchormommy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:23:35 +0000

You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately! I’ve been cooking from scratch almost every night since I left my career to be a stay-at-home mom three months ago. As I was making two kinds of homemade pizza and grilled corn for company tonight, I wondered, “Am I doing too much?” I don’t know. But I do know this — I like being in the kitchen. I like making something myself rather than buying it pre-prepared (with all the preservatives and transfats those pre-prepared foods come with). So while I was maybe going overboard just a wee bit tonight — fresh pesto, homemade pizza crust, garden veggies, and fresh herbs — I know I never regret feeding good, homemade food to the people I love. And by the way, the glass patio door was cloudy with dog nose prints and the patio was unswept and littered with leaves. At least we ate well.
Shannon @ Anchormommy´s last blog post ..Road trip! Five ideas to make the time fly by

By: Lifenut » The peasant with fabulous shoes

Lifenut » The peasant with fabulous shoes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:24 +0000

[...] found an interesting post via a link from Heidi, the Minnesota [...]

By: betsy

betsy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:10:23 +0000

Oh my, what a lovely post! “Authenticity is living simply.” How perfect and bang on. Sometimes we do project what we’d like to be on things in order to put our “best foot forward,” even though we know better. I think taking note of those moments can be helpful (to me, atleast) in realizing the inner conflict I’m having between what I think is right vs. what I’m doing….of course, it doesn’t always happen that way, truth be told, but I’m getting better!

Excellent post!
betsy´s last blog post ..“making.” “seeing.” “being.” boldly.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:05:40 +0000

I love this post, thank you so much. And thanks to all who have commented. It is so interesting to see how important living a simple life (whatever your definition is of that, you are right I think, it all boils down to living authentically). I was thinking about our mothers and grandmothers, did they worry about living a simple life? Probably not. They probably didnt have the time, they were too busy doing and making most of those things by hand that we take for granted picking up at the store today. So, somehow they managed to do all that, raise children, take care of their husbands, and lots more. I guess it helped that they didnt have the distractions of cell phones, computers, facebook, twitter, video games, so much television, etc. etc. So, for me, the time I feel the most connected within is when I am the most disconnected from the outside world; when the TV and computer are off, and it is quiet enough to hear myself think. And personally, and this is just for me, that is when I feel I am living the most simply. Those moments dont happen very often, but I am inspired to try a little at a time, to incorporate more of them into my days. Thanks for the gentle inspiration and thoughtful post.
Cynthia´s last blog post ..Please don’t give up on me…

By: Emily@remodelingthislife

Emily@remodelingthislife — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:58:36 +0000

I have enjoyed reading through all the comments on this post. It has had me thinking since I read it last week. I think that while we can all say what we want for our lives, that it’s also hard for me to read people saying negative things about those who do more than we do. Only we can make ourselves feel inadequate. For me, I take what works for me and continue along. I’d never dismiss someone or blame their simple living for making me feel like I don’t do enough. I do “enough” for me and my family, but I can still enjoy seeing someone who sews their own clothes and cans their own jam without feeling like *I* am not enough. I just wish there wasn’t so much comparing and that blogs were taken in the way they are usually intended – to inspire and encourage.
Emily@remodelingthislife´s last blog post ..Finding Contentment