Year: 2016
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CBC radio interview on downsizing
Here is the interview from earlier this week. Thanks to CBC reporter @BradyStrachan for posting. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/242158105″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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Driving me to downsize
During my interview with Chris Walker on CBC Daybreak South yesterday, I struggled a bit to explain the single motivating spark for our downsizing mission of the past couple of years. I rambled a bit about the empowerment of gardening, but luckily did not get into the maker movement or ethical computing or other such…
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It is tiny houses all the way down…
People have been asking me about my downsizing, amazed that we would get rid of all our books, clothes and empty our living room of all the furniture. Their eyes get even bigger when I say we are looking to go from the 1000sq ft. home we are in now to something around 700. But…
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Downsizing
Library of books I never read — Fired! Closet full of clothes I never wear — Fired! Old couch and coffee tables taking up space in the living room — Fired! Living room — Fired! Credit card debt — Fired! We’ve been downsizing. Over the past couple of years we have been removing ourselves from…