Entries Tagged as ‘simplicity’

November 6, 2008

People catching on to the cheap food trend

This couple whose blog I found are trying a fantastic experiment. To support the point I made in my previous post, you don’t have to be rich to eat well. Check out the One Dollar Diet Project, which is an inspiration in itself. 
Start by reading their first entry, so you can understand the sacrifices in [...]

October 30, 2008

Harsh times, cheap measures

Being a college student make the state of “broke” a permanent one. Many of us are not even that affected by the current economic crisis because we don’t have any money anyways. Still, I have been noticing a trend in the way people are behaving, and I can’t figure out whether its precautionary or subconscious [...]

October 3, 2008

Tips to enhance your day

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated,”– Confucius
I was going to write about rice cookers. Maybe I will next time. But today simply reminded me of how often we forget to enjoy life daily… take the random moments. My day was regular but had a couple of ingredients to remind me [...]

September 25, 2008

How to simplify your mind by de-cluttering your space

It is oh so easy to accumulate things that we don’t need. This consumerist society of ours makes us want to keep getting clothes, papers and everything that could be categorized as “stuff”, even if we have no practical use for any of this. In college, especially, whatever anyone gives to us as hand-me-downs [...]