As you might now I ride a rather old motorcycle that’s not very fuel efficient (Roughly 42 miles per gallon if I converted it correctly. 18 km/l). As I was riding on the highway last Saturday my fuel ran out, thankfully I have a reserve in the tank so I switched to that. An additional [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Minimalism’
September 2, 2009
The defective consumer says: Eat your vegetables
Everywhere you look there are commercials, influencing us and trying to convince us to buy the next best thing out there. Where this used to work on a massive scale it’s now getting more and more personal with even directly addressed ads showing up on your doormat and tons of spam in your mail.
Not a [...]
July 29, 2009
This minimalist’s take on food
Not to long ago I got a mail from Jean asking me how I handled food and eating. She herself found that “a simple (mostly raw) seasonal consumption of food works best”
I have just one guideline I try to follow in all food:
Concerning food that I buy/prepare myself. If I can’t tell what’s in there [...]
July 21, 2009
1 Step to creating a Minimalist Home
Yes, it takes just one step to transform your home into a minimalist living space. It’s huge actually and if you want to give it a go there are a lot of smaller steps to go through:
Throw away everything you haven’t used in a year
Get rid of paperwork/magazines
Find a way to properly manage all the [...]
July 20, 2009
A short post on packing less, the minimalist on vacation
I just got back from a two week vacation. There were three of us and we had a car at our disposal. Although I consider myself a minimalist I still was packing a big weekend bag, a backpack (my laptopbag) and my mediation mat (even rolled up it’s still quite big). My in-line skates were [...]
