So lately I've been struggling. As my husband Tim & I embark on this next journey in our life, our big move to Syracuse, it has gotten me reflecting on our current life in Kansas City.
( I'll try not to get all philosophical on you here just bear with me)
We make....a lot of money, in fact until we recently sat down to work our budget to continue saving for our move we didn't realize just how much we do make. We have a great house, two nice cars, nice furniture inside, clothes, electronics, good food, etc..the list could go on and on believe me. But with all of this "stuff" comes worry. Can we pay this bill, can we pay that bill, can we afford this, I want that, I need that new sweater I must have an Ipod, all of these desires and wants can get overwhelming to say the least. So in the amidst of an afternoon head spinner after doing our budget I got to thinking do we really NEED all of this stuff? And what would happen if when we moved, we changed our lifestyle?? Lived....simply.
So being the Internet junky that I am I decided to Google...living simply and to my amazement a site came up that I clicked on. After launching the live lightly tour site I started to browse around and realized hey this is exactly what I'm talking about. Here's the gist of this amazing family.
They decided they wanted to travel, then they decided they wanted to spread the word of "living simply", then they decided they wanted to do both of these in an RV powered by vegetable oil. I know I know I probably lost some of you there, another crazy green, tree hugging, granola munching family but wait. Both of them had jobs, they had an apt, they have a daughter and from what I can tell lived pretty nice. Despite all of that they sold or gave away everything, bought an old RV and converted it to run on veggie oil and to be way cool inside and decided to set out across the country spreading the word. As I read this I became more inspired. Partly because there ARE people out there who just decide "you know what I'm going to do something different and see how it turns out". Secondly because it made me realize that I can do the same thing in my own way. When we move we are going to live in an apartment instead of buying a house, we may only take those things with us that we truly need or have special meaning to us, we can scale back expenses, walk more, bike more, only have cell phones for emergencies instead of necessities...you get my drift. Mainly we can be happy with less.
I encourage you to check out Matt and Sara's website and Sara's blog they are both amazing. The live lightly tour site has posts from all of their cities and pictures, it's awesome. And maybe just maybe when you're done, you'll be inspired to live lighter too.
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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