Everyone’s path toward a simple and minimalist lifestyle will look differently; however there are a lot of amazing resources to help you along the way. Below are some of the best and most inspiring simple living posts on the internet.
It’s my hope these articles will motivate you to go car-free, start living small and thinking big! Maybe you’ll even reimagine the world?
Car-free Living
1. Dude, Where’s Our Car
2. Grandmas Got Bak
3. Tips for Happy Riding
4. The Shoes Ruse
5. The Truth about Tires
Happiness
6. The Only Guide to Happiness You’ll Ever Need
7. 10 Instant Tips to be Happier Now
8. How to Be Happier with What You Have
9. Secrets of Wellbeing Series — Part 1: Authentic Happiness
10. The Psychology of Happiness: 13 Steps to a Better Life
Health / Food
11. The Joy of Walking
12. 7 Frugal Tips for Saving on Health Care In 2010
13. 6 Simple Ways to Eat More Healthfully
14. The Ultimate How to Get Lean Guide
15. The 11 Most Important Rules For Healthy Eating…Yes, Most Important
16. Minimalist Yoga: How to Learn the Basics and Do Yoga Independently for Free
Personal Growth
17. Cultivating a Studied Ignorance
18. 18 Ways To Avoid Becoming a Human Robot
19. Ten Rules for Being Human
20. What do you want from life?
21. If It’s a Good Idea… Don’t Do It
22. 10 Benefits of Rising Early and How to Do It
Environment
23. 50 Simple Ways to Get Off
24. Beyond Hope
25. The Story of Stuff
26. 20 Simple Ways to Save Lots of Water
27. Tiny Gardens and Permaculture Farms
28. Carrying Our Own Containers: Powerful Action or Pointless Inconvenience?
Minimalism
29. 26 Essential Ways to Achieve Minimalist Freedom
30. You Need Less than You Think
31. Revisiting Conspicuous Consumption
32. The Minsumer Movement: A Quiet Revolution
33. How To Set-up a Minimalist Kitchen
34. A Guide to Self-Reliance Minimalism
35. How Much Stuff Do You Need To Feel Happy?
36. Love Life, Not Stuff
Work
37. The 3-Month Minimalist Survival Guide for Quitting the 9-5
38. 10 Lessons Learned on a 6-month Sabbatical
39. Education and Wage Slavery: Hand in Hand
40. Overwhelmed with possibilities when plotting your career? Try this approach
41. Incoming
42. 279 Days to Overnight Success
43. focus : a simplicity manifesto in the age of distraction
44. Do you like the work you love?
Relationships
45. The Introvert’s Guide to People
46. How to Make a True Friend
47. 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
48. How To Be A Fantastic Parent
49. DIY Marriage Counseling
50. Why Fewer Toys Will Benefit Your Kids
51. The Helpful Guide to Living an Intentional Life
Spirituality
52. 10 Social Media Meditations
53. How to Meditate: 10 Important Tips
54. On Learning to Slow Down
55. The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success
56. Finding Clarity and Inner Stillness through Meditation
57. What is natural spirituality?
Travel
58. 21 Reasons You Should Quit Your Day Job And Travel The World
59. The Great Fear
60. “D” is for Displacement
61. 10 Minimalist Travel Tips
62. What I Have Learned on The Road
64. Rest and Recovery
Creativity
65. Creating a Legacy Project
66. 10 ways to Become Inspired
67. How to Touch Your Creative Soul: A Zen View
68. make art everyday
69. How To Create Your Personal Manifesto
70. Read Tony Clark’s excellent 4-part Creative Adaptation series.
71. 57 Questions to Spark Your Creativity
72. 14 Websites To Make You a More Intelligent Person
Reducing Clutter
73. 10 Tips To Reduce Your Clutter And Get Organized
74. 5 Simple Ways to Reduce Clutter in Your Life
75. Declutter Your Way To A Happy Home
76. The Simple Guide for Prepping for a Family Move
77. How to Buy Only What Your Need and Want
78. How to Pare Down Your Stuff
Tiny Homes
79. The Renter’s Manifesto
80. Living Large in a Tiny House
81. How To Arrange a Teeny, Tiny Apartment
82. Teeny Tiny Free Plans
83. Why Live in a Micro Home?
84. Little House on a Small Planet
Personal Care
85. 5 Frugal Personal Care Tips
86. Baking Soda: So Many Uses; So Little Money… and Plastic
87. This One’s For The Girls: Green Your Period
88. Shampoo and Deodorant
89. Help. I need to wash.
Live Your Dream
90. Living Out of Two Backpacks
91. Liberate Your Life: Put Yourself on Auto-Response
92. Bloggers Living Their Dreams
93. Entrepreneurship: What To Do When You’re Scared Sh*tless
94. Why Worry Keeps You Poor and How to Fix It
95. The Smart Ass Guide to Dealing with Dream Zappers
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What a great list, Tammy! I have a lot of reading to do now. Thanks for the link love (and for including Everett’s fantastic guest post on ways to eat more healthfully).
Happy biking, etc.
Naomi
Wonderful! Thanks sooo much for this list of super awesome and powerful websites. I love it. Better than any book. Keep it up!
I need 10 days to read all… today i have completed 4. really great post.
Cool list, Tammy! I love the photos you included to introduce each section.
What a terrific list, Tammy! I’m adding this one to my favorites list because it may take a while to read them all. Thank you!
What a great list! I’m looking forward to checking these out. Thanks.
Luv it! Can’t wait to read them all! You are the best! Love the pics!
Wow, such a great list! It must have taken you ages, so thank you! I especially like the section about minimalism and tiny houses, I think I’m developing some kind of fetish for them ;P
Wow, it’s like you read my mind. Thanks so much for the compilation!
Thanks so much for the inclusion in such a fantastic list of great work. I love the pictures as well. Very minimal and creative. I’ll be following! Keep up the awesome work
Thanks for putting this together, Tammy.
This will become one of my permanent bookmarks.
What a tremendous list. Guess I’m gonna have to make some room on the To Do list this weekend.
Let’s see….mowing the lawn….that can come off the list.
grocery shopping….gone
Cleaning the downstairs….definitely gone.
feeding and bathing the triplets…optional.
Sweet, all set.
- Charley
Whoa! Tammy, this is incredible! Thank you SO much for compiling such a remarkable collection of wonderful articles.
What a gift!
x
Thank you all for the beautiful comments! I’m pumped that you found the guide useful. I think the articles illustrate diverse perspectives and that’s a good thing!
Happy Sunday!
hi there! i just wanted to commend you for an excellent excellent website. what you’re doing is amazing. my partner and i are on a quest to simplify our lives and this list is STELLAR. I have spent the last 2 hours going through the links. i’m inspired on so many levels! thanks again!!!
Ahhh thank you Sarah. You just made my day a little brighter. Good luck with simplifying. I wish you the best.
This is so great. I now have about 9 new open tabs on my browsers of articles I wanted to read.
I love your website and I love this list that helps me navigate it! Just from reading a few posts, I already have so many thoughts on how I could turn my own life around. There’s only one thing that worries me, I’m afraid it might be addictive – I’ve already spent more time on the website than I had planned..
Hi Tammy.
My husband and I are in the midst of seriously simplifying our lives now after years of searching for material happiness. We still trip up occasionally (me more than him). I discovered your website after reading The New York Times and it has been a source of inspiration for us to keep on trying…our greatest challenge is to persuade our families to accept a “downsized” version of us!
Just wanted to thank you so much for sharing…
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