Do you live a simple life?

[vsjhoc]

Originally Posted by JoyJoy

mine are Doublecross and Spades when I do decide to play...

Joy - Where do you play Spades on-line, and at what level? Perhaps we've played with or against each other!

[baking23]

Well I still live at home so I keep everything I own in my room so when I move I know exactly how much I have to take. I also don't get too many things and declutter freqeuntly.

[baking23]

Originally Posted by genmed

Great questions. This is something I've been trying to figure out for a while. convincing family members I really don't "need" anything for holidays/birthdays, .

The hardest part of the that is convincing them you really mean it. My family doesn't take no for an anwser.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Yes and no. We do because of school and work we don't have time to go out to movies, plays, etc. But no because we travel home to visit family to exotic locals, where most people dream of vacationing, so I guess we're luxurious. But it's no vacation. This weekend we're finally going to be together after a semester of running ourselves ragged.

[lrjohnson]

In some ways, yes, my life is simple. I work mostly 8 hour days with a very short commute. I sometimes walk to work. I dislike clutter, I dislike shopping, I like sparse. I don’t have or want a dishwasher or bread maker or manyt other appliances-I’m grudging about the microwave. I hang laundry and read a lot and can my own jam. I cook bulk foods like bulghur from scratch. I am childfree by choice.


I guess no one factoid makes my life simple, just like no factoiud makes it not simple-I travel internationally and have a computer and etc. I just know that my life is so very much NOT hectic. I have plenty of me time, and I stop and smell those darn roses too.

[JoyJoy]

Originally Posted by vsjhoc

Joy - Where do you play Spades on-line, and at what level? Perhaps we've played with or against each other!

I play Spades at the Sierra Games website. Hoyle games/Vug. Used to be Uproar too!

My rating is in the 1900's. I play their game of "Mirrors" and my rating goes up and down! But I really don't worry about that. I like to play in the social rooms as opposed to the rated rooms at times. Less stressful.

We probably have played against one another if you do play on Sierra or together even.

My brother plays there and my uncle too....Kaards2 and Sean2U!

[Ima saver]

I think I lead a simple life also. Until I got this computer as a christmas gift, I did not have any electronic stuff. I don't even know what most of the stuff in an electronic store does. I don't watch tv much or rent movies. I never go to movies.
I like to spend my time with my husband, just talking. We enjoy sitting on the back deck watching the creek flow by.
I really don't care for shopping any more. Taking a drive in the mountains or a simple walk is a lot more fun than shopping.

[tabbycat31]

For me it all depends. My idea of entertainment is taking a loaf of bread to the beach (a bakery gave me day old bread for free) and watching the seagulls in a "feeding frenzy" with my ipod playing in the background (I am a music person). The experience of being surrounded by them is something that you would not get from watching TV. And I also like to read in bed.

As for technology, I think that age has a lot to do with everything. I'm 26 and I have things like a computer, cellphone (my only phone), ipod, and cable tv. I don't need a fancy computer, plasma tv, latest cellphone, etc, as long as they work. About the only thing that I plan on upgrading on that category is my cellphone, because the backlight no longer works and I have to have specific light to see the screen.

I used to be much more high maintanance than I am now. I gave up shopping as a hobby as my 2006 New Years resolution and for the most part I stuck to it (coming from a former shopaholic).

Someone mentioned "Wife Swap." Even though I'm not married, if I were on that show, my opposite would be one of those SAHMs that spends the day shopping (there are so many in my area.... working in retail this was the customer base) and is completely dependent on her husband for everything. And she'd probably drive a gas guzzler. And she'd probably spend the time that her kids were in school doing things like getting her hair, nails, etc done.

[sarah]

I don't know what a simply life is. The more I study this question the more confused I become. Is is Living LIghtly on the earth or non-technologically. No these are not the same thing. Is is being uncluttered and orderly or being organic is living and attitude. I think I have read 90% of the books on simple living and I am still confused. Isit deliberate self sacrifce or is it intentional living. I have become so confused with this term that I have abandoned it along with its sister voluntary simplicity. Neither is really definable. I am striving to live consciously and intentionally. What I mean by that is to be aware of my choices and how they effect others. To be aware of my options and not to simply take the easiest or most convenient solution but to be fully aware.

[Broken Arrow]

I fully agree with you, Sarah. It's a very convoluted concept sometimes. I suppose it's also a mix of all of the above, because many of these ideas tend to be joined at the hip. Well, whatever it is, I try my best to do a little bit of everything, but in a way that is most meaningful to me.

[PrincessPerky]

I especially like your commetn on intentionally.

I heard once that I always think my way is the right way..well if I didn't think it was right, I wouldn't do it that way! (I would find the right way, and make it my way...) we intentionally raise my kids the way we feel is best, and we live our life as close to it as possible. (though no change is made overnight!)

[Ima saver]

I guess it is up to each of us to come up with our own defination of simple.