This year there are just 2 resolutions - and neither of them involves getting fit or any variation on that theme ;-)
1. Live simply
2. Be organised
Thoreau said that he had 3 chairs in his hut on Walden Pond - 1 for solitude, 2 for company, 3 for society. Since all our possessions are in a storage shed in Perth now, and we are likely to buy a tiny dump of a house this year, I plan to vet every item that crosses the threshold for usefulness or beauty. Having spent so much time in other people's houses and apartments as we travelled this last 6 months, I am pretty keen on having just the essentials for my kind of living and entertaining in my kitchen. Kind of like what we had the first time we moved to Perth (and didn't have the benefit of a corporate relocation company packing up our entire house for us).
I also plan to try to rid my life of unnecessary plastic and paper. Harrison's school lunches will be an opportunity to try to provide simple good food without plastic wrap, additives and processing as far as possible. The Bento laptop lunch box is my inspiration. I'm going to make 2 dozen cloth napkins to use instead of hundreds of paper serviettes this year (a la Crate and Barrel's).
And I plan to make sure my work and home spaces are organised (a place for everything), uncluttered, and peaceful. The label maker is going to go into overdrive!
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