If you could simplify your life, what would you do?
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Move to Kauai and grow radishes for the Farmer’s Markets. Five or six days a week.
Quit getting on the Internet.
Move closer to my family.
Stop caring about what happens in the world around me and stop trying to learn new things.
Move into a little house with a yard.
Learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.
It’s a nice concept, but I don’t know if it’s possible.
My life will be simplified when I get my new hip! Actually, looking forward to surgery, if you can believe that.
@BoBo1946 Now that’s one I can understand. Good luck. :)
Move into an apartment instead of this huge house
@BoBo1946 My mom just had a hip replaced. Vastly improved things for her. Good luck with your surgery, and do everything they tell you to in rehab!
I’d offload a lot of the stuff I own that I don’t use any more. Made good strides on the old clothes this week, though it’s a shame I have to take days off from work to get that kind of thing done.
Set things up so that I can spend my time doing things I believe are truly useful rather than trading my time for money because I need the income to support my family.
i would get rid of a lot of stuff that i own that i like but is relatively useless. knick-knack stuff that i can’t bear to part with, sentimental stuff, but it takes up a lot of space.
Move in with my fiancé where there is no need to own a car and the biggest challenges will be learning how to cook with metric measurements and go without a clothes dryer. I’ve been giving away pretty much everything I own for the past year, and it has been liberating.
Build a translator so that my children will understand me and my wife!
Oh, forgot: One thing I did a few years ago was quit my very competitive, time-inhaling job that prevented me from doing a lot of things I love. I get paid less now, but have time for volunteering, friends and neighbors, gardening, etc. And the stress level has gone down geometrically.
I’d get this baby out of me already lol can’t do crap when your pregnant! You have to avoid so much with food, exercise, where you go, how late you stay out etc.. But that’s just currently :)
Move to Hawaii with my love and write novels.
“Leave the world behind…”
If I could work just one job at about 40 hours/week (as opposed to my current two jobs at 60 hours/week) and make the same money I do now…I’d feel “simplified”.
That extra 20 hours/week of free time would be excellent.
Move back to the East coast and closer to family. I really miss having them nearby.
Win the Lottery! :-/
I’d simply retire & if I had enough money, buy that tree lined mountain I always wanted! :-/
@perg thank you !!!! This is my second one. Had the left one replaced 4 years ago and great results. Oh, cannot wait.
I would open a beach front restaurant coffee shop like this place in Door County called Good Eggs. They only serve egg burritos in the AM and Grilled Cheese for lunch and closed the rest of the day so you could go goof off the rest of the day.
A good start would be to throw your tv out the window of a speeding train.
I am very close to that now;)
@tinyfaery Are we related?
Story of my fucking life.
If my loved ones stopped being sick, school wasnt so hard!
I could speak danish and get myself a part-time/weekend job so I could go shopping, because right now we are living on moms school support money.
@free_fallin If you move to Hawaii I am coming with you
If I could live on the beach in Maui and surf all day, I think that would pretty much be the most simple and awesome thing to ever happen. Of course to make that happen I need a few million dollars.
@tragiclikebowie I’d leave the world behind with you any day, my dear. Please do come with.
Pretty much what I am doing now.
It would just be simplified.
I would get rid of the second girlfriend.
Three words:
Cabin.
Woods.
Typewriter.
Find a good way to get rid of at least half of my “stuff”, and get organized.
Find a job to pay at least what I make now but with only a 40hr work schedule.
Find a way for my partner to be free of his health issues that he’d welcome and participate in.
Ah, here is another that has already taken place. It has made a huge difference in simplifying life, as well as saving money and the environment. The long hair was cut to a short bob; no more $150 and 2-hour long hair appointments every month, in addition to an hour every morning to wash, blow-dry and curl it. The contacts were traded in for eye-glasses. No more salon manicures and pedicures. No more make-up, other than a dash of bronzer for special occasions.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
^^That.
Winning the lottery would suit me jess fine.
I exist in this world for one thing and one thing only; to pay for shit. Not that this is complicated, but it sure does make everything complicated.
@YARNLADY: Were the bunny ears part of the simplifying process?
I live a pretty simplified life already, and aim to keep it that way if at all possible.
I love just having the extra time to enjoy my space and house and down time.
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