{"id":1277,"date":"2011-01-25T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/25\/simple\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:05:00","slug":"simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/25\/simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAxtYF7iQM75CqBNj2FOSJWN4MAL6zrNZmMD07C_kOG46fekC0z0XMrFZe2rKwg2FOKC0DKaNv52H7Ywa69uHGtw2CSGox37XJVxJ8aayVeqm0IUjaHhfffNuPM5Qkl1gabbfXPSVYZTrh\/s1600\/Life+Frugal+and+Simple+LAYERS.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAxtYF7iQM75CqBNj2FOSJWN4MAL6zrNZmMD07C_kOG46fekC0z0XMrFZe2rKwg2FOKC0DKaNv52H7Ywa69uHGtw2CSGox37XJVxJ8aayVeqm0IUjaHhfffNuPM5Qkl1gabbfXPSVYZTrh\/s320\/Life+Frugal+and+Simple+LAYERS.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love this graphic. I wish I could remember where it came from. It has my favorite flowers and my theme for 2011. For the past few years, I&#8217;ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/aliedwards.com\/2011\/01\/one-little-word-2011-a-reading-of-the-words.html#more-8281\">Ali Edward&#8217;s One Little Word Project<\/a>. &nbsp;In fact, for the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve actually chosen a word. The problem is, after a couple of months, I&#8217;ve gone and forgotten the word! Tonight, while reading over at <a href=\"http:\/\/foreverdaisies.blogspot.com\/\">Forever Daisies<\/a>, I realized what the problem was. They were all good words and good goals, but I made it far too complicated. So, this year, I&#8217;ve decided to go simple. Just like the lovely Kimberly, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/foreverdaisies.blogspot.com\/\">Forever Daisies<\/a>, I&#8217;ve chosen Simple for my word.<\/p>\n<p>I really believe that my life has gotten far too complicated over the years. I&#8217;ve become more and more reliant on technology and less focused on the things that really are goals I&#8217;ve had for years. I spend far too much time sitting online and not nearly enough creating wonderful things. I have collected far more things than I need.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve spent more money than I should because let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s just no money there to spend. I don&#8217;t have a credit card and the little bit of money that I do bring in just covers my bills. The bit that I occasionally make here on the blog quite often goes to other things that pop up. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean that I can&#8217;t look for other ways to save money. Honestly, I should have been doing that ages ago. So, I&#8217;m going to work more on finding new ways to save money and I&#8217;m going to try to share those with my readers.<br \/>\nIn fact, I would love it if people could post their tips here in the comments. I can them combine them all into a post and share them with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Simple. It&#8217;s not only going to be my word, but my lifestyle goal for this coming year. It&#8217;s going to mean more purging and maybe some tough decisions, but I believe I&#8217;ll be a happier woman for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/?action=view&amp;current=Name2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/Name2.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you like what you&#8217;ve read here, please share it with others using these buttons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this graphic. I wish I could remember where it came from. It has my favorite flowers and my theme for 2011. 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