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Our Experience Playing Minsgame Multiple Times

August 2, 2016 By Uncoveries

Playing Minsgame Multiple Times

My husband and I have played multiple rounds of minsgame. This past July was our fourth time.

How the game works is like this: you remove an item from your home (by selling, donating, giving or throwing away) on the first day, two items on the second day and so forth. Each item can be as big as an appliance or as small as a button. It all depends on you. With both of us playing in a month with 31 days, that equates to nearly a thousand items (992) gone from our home.

It’s been challenging this fourth time around. Frankly, I wasn’t able to find 496 physical items. I only found about 78, a much lower number than I needed. That certainly wasn’t the case when we first started down the minimalism path.

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Filed Under: Simplicity Tagged With: Decluttering, Minimalism, Minsgame

5 Tips on Living a More Minimalist Lifestyle

July 19, 2016 By Uncoveries

Minimalist Lifestyle Tips

There’s a staggering excess of things we don’t need.

Piles of junk mail show up in our mailboxes each day. Thousands of products are promoted in stores and on screen, and hundreds of promotional swag are given out for “free.” Every item has an additional hidden cost. Every item takes from our limited reserves of time, energy and attention.

In a world of such excess, I’ve found it essential to pare down and embrace a minimalist lifestyle.

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Filed Under: Lifestyle, Simplicity Tagged With: Decluttering, Minimalism, Organization

9 Areas To Declutter For A High Quality Life

January 12, 2016 By Uncoveries

This is the fifteenth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). This week, I expand on how decluttering helped change my life by sharing the 9 main areas of focus.

“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.”

– Linda Breen Pierce


When you’re busy running from one thing to the next, it’s easy to miss a lot of things.

Clutter tends to hide more clutter.

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Filed Under: Sabbatical, Simplicity Tagged With: Aspirations, Clutter, Decluttering, Digital Clutter, Dreams, Energy, Food, Home, Letting go, Mental Health, Openness, Physical Items, Productivity, Purpose of a Sabbatical, Quitting Your Job, Sabbatical, Simplicity, Slow down, Solitude, Taking a Leap, Taking a Sabbatical, Trying new things

How Decluttering Helps You Change Your Life

January 7, 2016 By Uncoveries

This is the fourteenth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Last time, I talked about how the most important aspect of your life is often a lesson we need again and again. Below, I share the role decluttering played in building up Uncoveries and crafting the life I really wanted.

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.”

– Joshua Becker


I’d made big progress in quitting a job that wasn’t fitting.

The next contributor was key in how Uncoveries got started and how I embarked on the path I’m on today.

Before I left for Prague, Anthony and I attended a conference on simple living and met a likeminded community of folks who were questioning the pressure around the fast-paced and constant consumerism in mainstream culture. The conference inspired me to barely buy any souvenirs during my trip; the past me likely would’ve bought at least three times more.

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Filed Under: Sabbatical, Simplicity Tagged With: Creative ideas, Creativity, Decluttering, Energy, Letting go, Openness, Productivity, Purpose of a Sabbatical, Quitting Your Job, Sabbatical, Simplicity, Slow down, Solitude, Taking a Leap, Taking a Sabbatical, travel, Trying new things

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