Category Archives: Reduce

Layers

By Naomi | Published: 02/12/2011
We’re weighing up some life options. A big part of quite a few of the options we’re liking involve downsizing our home. It’s not an immediate plan but one we’d like to work towards over the next six months, or even year. What’s coming with that is the need to downsize our belongings even more. [...]
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Kibera

By Naomi | Published: 10/03/2011
What can’t you live without? Imagine for a moment that you are a celebrity (maybe you are!) and your interview ends with this question. What would you say? The answers slip so easily off the tongue. Even in the every day it’s so easy to say “Oh I can’t live without my….”. It’s often said [...]
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Bits

By Naomi | Published: 28/06/2010
I have vague memories of doing one of those tests you take in careers classes which are supposed to tell you what kind of worker you are, you know, Planner, Leader, Finisher etc. (A quick aside: I don’t know what careers classes are like in other countries but in England in the 80′s they were [...]
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Nothing

By Simon | Published: 23/06/2010
I was watching a documentary recently and the narrator made the, fairly common, statement about some people living somewhere seemingly being happy despite having “nothing”. I seem to hear that comment a lot and yet, for some reason, it really struck me this time.
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Pink

By Naomi | Published: 17/06/2010
My four year old daughter told me that I don’t like the stuff she likes. I asked her what she meant. She replied that I won’t let her have all the stuff she sees in the shops that she likes and therefore she thinks I don’t like it. I start off on some rambling explanation [...]
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