Move to Simplicity
Posts by: Rick Kennedy
Here’s a Youtube video showing what the publishers claim may be the first tiny house hotel set up in Portland, OR with the help of Portland planners.
The first part of the video gives you a tour through some of the tiny homes.
Around 9:20 one of the individuals states this…
A lot of […]
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.”
― Henry David Thoreau, […]
Liquidity. After our McMinnville house sold in 2009 we experienced something we had never experienced in our life. A savings account which actually had something more than “meager” in it; and a debt column containing a single digit – 0. We relished the idea knowing is was only temporary, and that soon the 30 year […]
“Glen Kellman: No matter how many cereal boxes people want to buy, there will always be more boxes in the back room. So any chance of price appreciation for the next, probably five years, is gone.”
When we pulled our offer, (which was the 4th for those who are counting), last spring, the uneasiness – […]
One of the main reasons we moved downtown to a smaller place was to reduce our our time behind the wheel, which it has. However more importantly, we wanted to reduce the heating and cooling of our living space. Our previous rental had a lot of unneeded space that took more time and energy […]
Well ok. I pulled the plug on the cable box yesterday. It felt eerily like pulling life support on, well… not a person, but something more connected to my soul than an “object”. You hear all the jokes about a remote control being the extension of the male psyche. There may be some truth to […]
So, last Monday when Sally and I roamed Fred Meyer’s doing our usual weekly shopping I stopped by the toothbrush isle to select a new brush. Seconds turned into minutes and a growing frustration was overwhelming me…
REALLY? Do we need this many %&@!$ toothbrush choices?
Okay maybe we do. We are human. Choice is […]
Now that we have chosen to forgo a home purchase, I’m looking for investments that will hopefully keep our down payment from losing value.
Lately, I have been discussing strategies with a very good, down to earth, friend who is incredibly intelligent in many things, including investing. Much of what Ricci touches is golden. He […]
- A family experiment to see if we can free ourselves from the clutter of modern life and the ideas we come across while trying it.
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