The journey towards simpler living continues in the Loepsie household. As I’m working on removing unnecessary items from my life, I also need to make sure I’m mindful of what I’m bringing into our home. Over the past year I’ve replaced lots of single-use items we used to buy with more eco friendly, reusable items […]
Massive Decluttering Challenge | Part One
It’s time to start working on one of my new year’s resolutions: minimizing my belongings and decluttering the home further. I’ve compiled a list of 30 categories of items I want to go through and declutter, and I’m going to go through 15 of these today. Feel free to follow along! The areas: 1) […]
Major Closet Declutter
It’s time for a thorough closet declutter. In today’s video I’m going to tackle my clothes, shoes and bags and see what I can donate/give away. I’ve been trying to minimize my closet for a while and I’m in the mood to be ruthless now, so let’s give it a shot!
My Struggles With Zero Waste
Over the past months I’ve shared snippets of my journey towards a lower waste lifestyle. I’ve been toying with minimalist views and ideas for a while, slowly implementing them in my life more and more, and I feel like “zero waste” is a locigal thing to consider within that. Wasting resources, physical or monetary, is […]
Autumn Cleaning Checklist
Ah, the turn of the season. The more noticeable ones, summer into autumn and winter into spring, always unlock a wide variety of feelings within me. They’re like a fresh start, an opportunity to set out into the upcoming months with a clean slate. They also always give me the cleaning bug. I’ll suddenly start […]
Coffee Table Styling
A few weeks back, our larger coffee table collapsed and needed to be replaced. By some strange play of fate, I had been to IKEA with a friend and bought a new coffee table that very same day. We put the old table away, assembled the new one, and there it was. Quite beautiful and […]
More Sustainable Low Waste Swaps I’ve Made
It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that I’ve been on a journey towards reducing the amount of single-use (mostly plastic) items in our home. Even though the Netherlands have a pretty good waste disposal system where most of the waste is recycled or incinerated and landfills are barely used any more, I still like to […]