Themed Family Dinner Night Ideas will help you spice up your evening meal and create new memories along the way. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” – Ronald Reagan Every night we sit down and spend time with our favorite people in the world. Adding themed meals to the nightly routine will…
Simple Living
Depression Era Habits to Start Today
Depression Era Habits to Start Today will help you start on the path of frugal living. Grandma and grandpa had the right idea when they watched where every penny went. “People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.” – Naval Ravikant Financial stress is awful. We…
Dear Toilet Paper: A Love Letter
Dear Toilet Paper: A Love Letter is a post I never thought I would write. Life can change overnight, and when it does, the new normal can be transformative in both good and bad ways. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu Nobody…
How to Hygge Your Vehicle
How to Hygge Your Vehicle will show you a few tips on how to make your car more comfortable whether you have a long or short commute. “To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’ – Rita Rudner One of our cozy living group members asked an interesting question of the group….
Best Hygge Movies to Watch
Best Hygge Movies to Watch for a Cozy Night will inspire you to get comfortable and get lost in an excellent movie that leaves you feeling good about life. “We love films because they make us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream…
12 Creative Business Ideas You Can Copy
12 Creative Business Ideas You Can Copy will inspire you if you’re looking to start your own business or change careers and become your own boss. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin, founder of HypeMachineCommuting. New creative business ideas for 2020…
31 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress
31 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress will help you navigate your way out of the stormy seas of your mind, and get you back to calm waters. “Stress level: extreme. It’s like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting,…
31 Small Goals Easily Achieved in 2020
If you want to start your dream with confidence, the best way to do this is to start is by conquering a few small goals easily achieved. Success breeds success. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” J.P. Morgan We all have dreams….
Hygge New Year Traditions
Hygge New Year Traditions are simple ways to usher in the New Year by adding our own personal stamp to the holiday with ideas that make our day just a little bit cozier. “The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie How exciting is…
How to Dry Orange Slices
How to Dry Orange Slices will get you started on making beautiful natural decor to add to your packages, make garland, create Christmas ornaments, or simply as seasonal accents for your home. “If you wait until you have enough money to decorate and make your home your own, it will never happen. If you wait…
Hygge New Year’s Resolution Ideas
Hygge New Year’s Resolution Ideas will help you come up with some thoughts of how to turn 2020 into an amazing year that transforms your life. “Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Meik…
Creative Inexpensive Christmas Decorations
Creative Inexpensive Christmas Decorations will show you some tips and tricks to infuse your home with the Christmas spirit, even if you don’t have a big budget. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: The presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow You don’t have to…
9 Enchanting First Snow Day Traditions
9 Enchanting First Snow Day Traditions will let you pick the perfect idea for your family to celebrate the start of a magical season. “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different,…
55 Old Fashioned Christmas Ideas
55 Old Fashioned Christmas Ideas will help fill your holiday with magic and you may find some of the enchantment you experienced when you were young. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith Getting everything done can make your holiday season feel…
Minimalist Lifestyle: Why Others Got Started
Minimalist Lifestyle: Why Others Got Started will give you a little peek inside the window of souls that craved a simpler life. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris Let me start this post by saying I’m not a…
Creative Ways to Save Money
Creative Ways to Save Money will give you the advice you need to to put you on the path of frugality from people who’ve been in your shoes. A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone. – Jason Chaffetz In a frugal living group, a question that was asked was, “What’s the one…
How to Start a Small Jelly and Jam Business
How to Start a Small Jelly and Jam Business will give you simple steps to get started on your way to entreprenuership and design a life you love. “I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis…
100+ Hygge Journal Writing Prompts
100+ Hygge Journal Writing Prompts will help get you started on creating that cozy life you crave by digging deeper into your desires. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” William Wordsworth Life can be stressful! It’s up to us to change that by creating a cozy lifestyle that reflects the vision of our dreams….
31 Summer Hygge Ideas to Nurture Yourself
31 Summer Hygge Ideas to Nurture Yourself will set you on the right path to embracing the cozy side of living – even in the heat of summer! Who said you could only hygge in the winter when summer has so many cozy elements to savor? “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy….
Simple Things To Be Grateful For
Simple Things To Be Grateful For was inspired by a post I saw in Facebook. Someone asked a group’s members what simple thing brought them the most joy and hundreds of people answered. “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power…
Valentine Week – 7 Days of Ideas
Valentine Week – 7 Days of Ideas whips up the perfect recipe for romantic traditions to start with your significant other. “I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.” – The Great Gatsby We all know about Valentine’s Day, but did you know that Valentine Week has seven days devoted to this special…
Chocolate Gift Ideas for the Chocoholic
Chocolate Gift Ideas for the Chocoholic will help you pick that perfect present for those that have a fondness for cocoa, even if that someone is you. “Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for…
Susan Branch Martha’s Vineyard Isle of Dreams Book Review
Susan Branch Martha’s Vineyard Isle of Dreams Book Review will let you in on a cozy little secret. The secret is that this book is absolutely amazing. “Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.” ― Susan Branch I originally got the book from the library…but I couldn’t return it because I loved it so…
The Best Hostess Gifts They’ll Love
The Best Hostess Gifts They’ll Love will point you in the right direction on getting your host or hostess the perfect gift to thank them for including you in his or her life. “The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I’m very organized. I make a…