{"id":771,"date":"2014-11-14T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:14:11","slug":"our-interview-on-minimalism-is-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/our-interview-on-minimalism-is-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Interview on Minimalism is Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we were featured in an interview on\u00a0Minimalism is Simple<\/a>. \u00a0Please go visit the site. Wonderful things are happening there! Aly and Denise do a great\u00a0job of explaining and assisting people who want to minimize their lives.<\/p>\n

So…I’ve been thinking this week, and that usually means trouble. : ) I thought about where we fit in the scheme of the minimize, downsize, small-scale movement. \u00a0I hate to call it a movement because people have been talking about and doing this for centuries. I recently went back to some of the books and literature we used when we decided to consciously live small. (I’ll talk about those more in future posts.) And I noticed that they<\/em> use books, articles and ideas from many years in their past.\u00a0Then I began to wonder what it would take to make this a large-scale influence~or to even stop talking about it as a movement and just live it. I wouldn’t consider us minimal; we are small. And that is even debatable by some. I believe the attitude is the most important thing. The quality of life we have, while we live how we do.<\/p>\n

\"LoveliesOnPorch\"<\/a>
Us on the temp walkway in winter 2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whether you consider yourself a minimalist, a smallist, or a “some time in the future I’ll do it ‘ist”, I believe we are all striving for the same thing~simplicity and calmness. Living small can do that for you. I guess that’s what we are about.<\/p>\n

So, go to Aly and Denise’s site Minimalism is Simple<\/a>, but don’t forget to come back to see what Shiny Tiny Mansion is up to.<\/p>\n

Until then, live small and prosper,<\/p>\n

~Sue
\nPS. Got our first snow of the season this week ~ BRRRR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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