I’m not a parent yet, but most of my friends are — and I have a select few whose parenting styles I follow very closely & will want to adopt when, if it’s meant to be, we start a family in the future.
Is there anyone out there who doesn’t want to reduce stress, debt, and waste?
For those of you who’ve read Shoestring for any length of time, you know that we’ve been super lucky to have parenting blogger extraordinaire Christine Koh as a regular columnist, sharing her Minimalist Mama expertise in these “pages” over the years.
Even though our dear Minimalist Mama Christine Koh is on maternity leave — Welcome to the world, little Violet!
Let’s be real about this: so far, I’ve completely failed at “freeganism.” The counter-culture movement du jour is a lot harder than just diving into a few dumpsters or picking up a few errant treasures from your neighbor’s curbside trash, as I found out firsthand last month when I attempted to go “freegan” for a week, to little avail.
As an eco-gal, design proponent of clean and simple lines, and mom trying to teach her daughter that things don’t grow on trees, I obsess over “less is more” living.
Ever since becoming a parent, I’ve increasingly become obsessed with our household “stuff in, stuff out” mantra, and I know I’m not alone. Parents are eager to recycle outgrown clothing, books, music, movies, games, and other miscellany, and web entrepreneurs have responded.