Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

This is a great read on a Japanese approach to paring down to the essentials:

Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

I have been using this method pretty much my entire life without even realizing it's a method!  This woman fleshes it out into a really impressive ethos for deciding what to own and how to let go of what you do not need.

Oh Noooo!

I accidentally bought and opened the Q-tips with the horrible plastic sticks. 

They look just like the ones with paper sticks! Silly me. I couldn't figure out why these were cheaper than the ones that looked identical next to them on the shelf. Ew, plastic is cheaper?!

We are back in our amazingly remodeled tiny house and I can't wait to post lots and lots of pics. Priorities, though, dictate setting it up nicely before doing the big reveal.