What Do Couples Talk About: Communication in Relationships
When you think about it, couples have a lot of conversations. Talking about anything and everything. All these conversations help...
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How to Deal with Blended Family Issues: Navigating Challenges
As we navigate the complexities of blended family dynamics, we often find ourselves facing a multitude of challenges. It’s ironic...
How Much Does a Couple Need to Retire? Planning for Financial Freedom
As a couple, we often talk about our future retirement plans. We dream of traveling the world, spending more time...
What Is a Minimalist Lifestyle? Embracing Simplicity & Intentionality
Minimalism is all the rage these days. Everywhere you look, people are talking about decluttering their lives and simplifying their...
What Is Mindful Listening? Enhancing Communication & Connection
Did you know that on average, people spend 70% of their day engaged in some form of communication? Despite this,...
Is Almond Milk Bad for the Environment? Unveiling Its Sustainability
Kelsey loves a good milk alternative, mostly because dairy is not great for her acne but we also like the...
How to Best Divide Up Chores for Couples: Sharing Responsibilities
We all know that maintaining a smooth-running household can be a challenge, especially when it comes to divvying up the...
Are Electric Cars Better for the Environment? Exploring Eco-Friendly Transportation
We all know we have heard about how electric cars are the future and helpful to the environment. But we...
How to Be Mindful at Work: Cultivating Focus and Productivity
In this fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and lose sight of our own well-being....
Can a Married Couple File Taxes Separately? Exploring Tax Options
Once you get married, one of the many things to figure out is how to file taxes as a married...
How Does Pollution Affect the Environment: Consequences & Solutions
Pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. Pollution can take many forms but essentially it is something...
How to Use Pinterest for Blogging: Driving Traffic & Engagement
Pinterest can be a blogger’s best friend, especially for those new to the game who might be having trouble getting...
How to Relieve Stress from Family Issues: Coping Strategies
Everyone’s family is a little messy, it’s just a part of life. And that commotion can build over time, making...
Why You Shouldn’t Call Your Spouse a Child: Respecting Relationships
Kelsey was scrolling through social media one day when she came across a debate on whether it’s cute to call...
What Is Mindful Meditation? Techniques & Benefits of Being Present
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the constant hustle and bustle of everyday life leading...
How to Help the Environment: Simple Steps for a Sustainable Future
As a society, we are grappling with a number of complex environmental challenges that threaten the health and well-being of...
How Often Do Couples Fight: Understanding Relationship Dynamics
Every couple fights sometimes and almost every couple has had the thought at one point or another, “Do we fight...
What to Blog About: How to Find Your Niche & Captivate Readers
Are you staring at a blank screen, wondering what to blog about? Trust us, we’ve been there. Coming up with...
How to Distance Yourself from Family Drama: Setting Healthy Boundaries
We all know that family drama can be incredibly draining and stressful. It’s hard to distance yourself from the people...
What Is Debt Financing? Understanding Borrowing for Business Growth
It can be very difficult to actually get a business off the ground. There are so many hurdles to overcome,...
Is Bitcoin Bad for the Environment? Exploring its Ecological Impact
As we continue to rely heavily on technology, the environmental impact of our digital activities becomes increasingly important. One area...
Changing the Blog: Why it Was Time to Change the Site
You may have noticed we have been busy the past few months changing the blog. Some of the alterations have...
How to Promote Your Blog: Effective Strategies for Visibility
Are you struggling to get your blog noticed in the crowded online space? We’ve been there, and we know how...
Ten Best Romantic Comedies Couples Should Watch: Perfect Date Night Films
Staying in and relaxing together with a perfect romantic comedy can make for a perfect date night that’s fun, easy,...
How Well Do You Know Me Questions for Couples: Deepening Connections
Have you ever looked at your partner and wondered just how much they know about you? Even if you’ve been...
What Is Mindful Breathing? Cultivating Awareness & Calm
Did you know that breathing is the only autonomic function of the body that we can consciously control? Yet, it’s...
How Does Recycling Aid the Environment: Benefits & Importance
As a society, we generate an enormous amount of waste. Every day, we dispose of products and packaging that end...
The Best Travel Credit Cards: Unlocking Rewards & Convenience
When it comes to traveling, we like to have the best tools at our disposal. And one tool that has...
Why Is Personal Finance Dependent on Your Behavior? Exploring Financial Habits
When it comes to personal finance, many people focus solely on their income and expenses. While these are certainly important...
How to Fix Family Communication Issues: Strategies for Healthy Relationships
As a family, we all want to have healthy and effective communication with our loved ones. However, sometimes we run...
How Much Time Should Couples Spend Together? Finding the Right Balance
Every couple will have a moment in life when they wonder how much time they should be spending together. While...
How to Have a Minimalist Home: Tips & Tricks for Simplifying Your Space
Minimalism is more than just a trend, it’s a lifestyle choice. It’s about living with intention and simplicity in all...
How to Comfort Someone with Family Issues: Providing Support & Understanding
At some point in our lives, we have all experienced difficulties within our families. Whether it’s a divorce, a death,...
Would You Rather Questions for Couples: Sparking Fun Conversations
Playing ‘would you rather’ questions can be a great icebreaker, especially if you’re still getting to know each other. It’s...
What Is the Rule of 72 in Finance? Understanding Compound Growth
Have you ever wondered how long it would take for your investments to double in value? If so, the Rule...
What Is Mindful Eating? Cultivating Awareness & Nourishing the Body
Mindful eating is a practice that involves paying attention to what we eat and how we eat it. It’s about...
How to Monetize a Blog: Strategies & Tips for Success
Monetizing a blog can seem daunting at first, but with the right strategies and mindset, it’s possible to generate income...
Are Fireworks Harmful to the Environment? Exploring the Impact
Fireworks are a staple of many cultural celebrations and holidays around the world. From Independence Day in the United States...
How to Live a Minimalist Life: Practical Steps & Mindset Shifts
Whether it’s physical possessions or mental baggage, excess of any kind can cause stress and anxiety. That’s where minimalist life...
What Does It Mean to Be Mindful? Exploring Awareness & Presence
If you’ve ever found yourself feeling distracted, stressed, or overwhelmed by the demands of daily life, it might be time...
How to Manage Personal Finances: Tips & Strategies for Financial Success
Managing personal finances can be a daunting task for many people. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when faced with bills,...
How Long Should a Blog Post Be? Ideal Length & Best Practices
Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, unsure of how long your blog post should be? As...
How Does Deforestation Impact the Environment: Causes & Consequences
Deforestation is a practice that has been carried out for centuries, but its impact on the environment has become increasingly...
Journaling for Beginners: Benefits, Tips, and Prompts
In a journey for better mental health, we are big believers that it all begins with your mindset so we...
Taking a Mental Health Break
You may have noticed we have been a little MIA with the site. As we were slowly losing more and...
Financial Lessons from Books We’ve Read: Wisdom on Wealth
Bit by bit there have been different financial lessons from books we’ve read that really stuck with us. Something that...
Being an Eco Minimalist: Embracing Sustainable Simplicity
We like to think we invented the idea of being an eco minimalist but really we are far from the...
Why Simplicity is Important in Life: Embracing the Power of Less
Clearly, we think simplicity is important. It is part of our site’s tagline…a travel and simplicity blog. But why did...
Simple Ways to Eliminate Clutter
We’re always preaching about getting unnecessary items and why you need to do it, but for some, actually finding ways...
Why You Need to Eliminate When Organizing
Not to brag but we’re pretty good at organizing. So good, that whenever we visit family they typically ask for...
Simple Ways to Deal with Blogger Burnout
Oh, the dreaded blogger burnout. We’ve all been there. Okay maybe not everyone has been there but most bloggers admit...
What a Pandemic Taught Us About Wasteful Spending
We used to think we were great with money but there’s nothing like a global pandemic to highlight some areas...
Why We Chose a Travel Trailer Over a Van
It’s time to answer the age-old question…why we chose to live in a travel trailer over a van. Van life...
Thrifting Benefits: Sustainable Style & Budget-Friendly Finds
If you aren’t sold on thrift shopping, you are missing out. There are so many thrifting benefits for you, your...
Our Top 4 Simple Habits for a Tidy Home
Since we like to live small we know how important it is to keep a clutter-free home. After living in...
Simple Phone Blogging Tasks You Can Do While Traveling
Running our blog is a lot of work and since travel is a big part of our site…we are constantly...
Things We Regret About Our Tiny House on Wheels
Okay before we get too far into it, we want to make one thing very clear…we loved our travel trailer....
8 Ways to Use the One Touch Rule for a Clutter Free Home
Kelsey swears by the one touch rule for a clutter-free home. It takes the chore of cleaning and breaks it...
Eco Friendly DIY Yoga Mat Cleaner
Not sure who needs to hear this but it’s time to clean your yoga mat. Since we are shooting for...
Simple Guide to Furnishing a Home on a Budget
We recently moved to Portland and decided to rent an apartment after years of living in a travel trailer. Since...
Minimalist Items for Tiny House Living
Living in a teardrop travel trailer means more freedom for adventures but less space for stuff. Since our mobile tiny...
The Meaning of Simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity…lately it seems that’s all we talk about after we rebranded our site to be include both travel...
Beginner Blogging Mistakes to Avoid
When we first started the blog we made a lot of newbie blogging mistakes. and we mean A LOT. We aren’t...
Must Haves in Our Eco Minimalist Kitchen
After moving to Portland it was time to set up our eco minimalist kitchen. In honor of the recent TikTok...
The One Touch Rule for Eliminating Clutter
In the Schaub household, we live and die by the one-touch rule for eliminating clutter. By incorporating this one simple...
Pin Ideas for Bloggers
Coming up with pin ideas can be one of the more daunting tasks for bloggers. We pin 15 times a...
Simple Tips for a Minimalist Budget
Having a minimalist budget can be a great way to simplify your finances. It can also break down the budgeting...
Tips for Tiny House Living with Cats
After years of living small in a travel trailer, we found several simple ways to make tiny house living with...
The Easiest Way to Make Castile Foaming Soap
We have found the easiest way to make Castile foaming soap. When we say easy, we’re talking can be made...
Why Starting a Blog Was Worth It
The our blog is kinda like our baby. It takes a lot of time and energy but in the end,...
Why We Live a Life of Simplicity: Enjoying Simple Living
Simple living is all the rage so it’s no surprise we sort of jumped on the bandwagon and decided to...
How to be a Prepared Minimalist During a Disaster
We are planners and minimalists, both of which fit very well together but being a prepared minimalist during a disaster...
Why Blogging is a Good Idea
To blog or not to blog, that is the question (get it). We might be biased but we think blogging...
How To Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps
If you’re a newbie to the blogging world knowing how to start a blog can seem complex. You don’t know...
How We Paid Off Student Loans: Over $180,000 in Four Years
When we graduated from school we knew we had one main priority: Pay off our student loans. In 2019, after...
Manual Pinning Strategy to Double Pinterest Impressions
We LOVE Pinterest for our blog. It’s how we get most of our monthly views so coming up with a...
Zero Waste Coffee While Traveling
Two things that just seem to go together are coffee and traveling. At least it does for us. There’s something...
5 Easy Steps to be More Eco-Friendly
Saving the planet is the thing to do right now…and honestly, it’s about time. If you find yourself wanting to...
Simple Gift Ideas for Minimalists
The holidays are here and it seems to put everyone in the giving mood. This can always make it a...
The Best Travel Accessory for Bloggers
This may not be a surprise but our main travel accessory as travel bloggers is our smartphones. They are small,...
Easy Tips for Finding the Perfect Tiny Home
Tiny homes are the new craze and seem to come with all sorts of options. Finding the perfect tiny home...
Easy Ways to be More Minimalist
It sounds very simplistic (get it?) but if we shared one tip from our guide to becoming a minimalist it would...
When Should Minimalists Sell, Donate, or Throw Away
It’s probably no surprise to hear that minimalists are always getting rid of “stuff” and eliminating clutter. Because we move...
Our Spending Budget Category Breakdown
People always ask about spending because we have a unique situation as nomad therapists. Since we are minimalist travelers we...
Buying Groceries as a Frugal Minimalist
Sometimes we run into problems at the grocery store while trying to be more frugal and minimalist. We want to...
Buying Clothes as a Frugal Minimalist
When it comes to buying clothes as a frugal minimalist we have had some difficulty. We each have a 100...
Tiny Home Tips: Making the Most of Minimalist Living
After several years of living in our own travel trailer, we picked up some tiny home tips. Learn from our...
Our Top Five Minimalism Tips
Some of our top minimalism tips to help you become better minimalists. Learn about minimalist travel, how to be a...
Start Your Minimalist Journey
We love the minimalist lifestyle so much we decided to help others make the switch. Here are simple steps you...
Embracing Minimalism
Embracing minimalism has completely changed our lives for the better. When we say less is more, we mean it. Since...
How to Practice Minimalism at Work
Because of our job as traveling physical therapists, we move around every three to six months. With all the constant...
5 Steps to a Minimalist Electronic Life
We talk a lot about simplifying our lives but realized we were missing a big part. It was time to...
Our Budget for Paying Student Loans
People always are curious about how we pay so much towards our student loans and travel as much as we...
Downsizing to a Tiny Trailer Home
Moving into an 18ft trailer of 94 livable square feet came with some serious downsizing. We were happy to do...
5 Easy Ways to Save Water
Growing up in the Midwest, water conservation was never the main concern. Ohio seems to have an abundance of water...
What You Need to Know About Refinancing Student Loans
We already talked about different ways to combat your student loans and the decision we made in our first student...
Being a Frugal Minimalist: Embracing Simplicity & Savings
Since we often talk about saving money but we also talk about being minimalist, we figured it’s time to talk...
A Simple Guide to Buying in Bulk
For us, buying in bulk has been a great way to reduce our carbon footprint by producing less waste. We...
Dealing with Student Loans: Strategies for Financial Freedom
Dealing with student loans is one of those things that just sucks. A lot of us are trying to figure...
Cheap and Easy DIY Powder Laundry Detergent
Our powder laundry detergent was our first foray into DIY organic cleaners. The main thing we wanted was a recipe...
