Less Is More

Hi Again!

Lately I have found the saying 'Less is More' to be so true! In today's society everyone wants everything and they have little appreciation for what they already have and they also get caught up getting 'things' they forget to live a little without the 'things' they 'need'.

So for this reason Shane and I decided that this is NOT how we wish to raise the girls.  We would like them to care for the few belongings they have, cherish them and live life hassle free without the pressure of having so much 'stuff'.  

We began with Christmas last year.  Normally Christmas is filled with many many many presents! And instead of spoiling the girls with lots of toys and other gifts, instead they only received a few - a homemade doll (barbie) house (made by Shane) filled with second hand furniture to share (total cost was $5.20 for the furniure as the house was made from off cuts from Shane's work), a wheel barrow with tools each ($25 per set from Aldi Supermarket), a barbie doll each ($7 each from Woolworths Supermarket), A Chocolate Stocking each ($5 each from Target), a Pillow Pet outfit ($9 each from Big W Toy Sale - Waste of money and was a total impulse buy!) and 1 other gift each Makeita got a Skateboard Pack ($19 Big W Toy Sale) and Indi received a Hand Tool Gardening Kit ($14 from Aldi Supermarket).  

For me not buying much was hard, but Christmas morning became less hectic and the girls actually played with their items they did receive, showing Mummy that Less is More!

We are now onto cleaning out their toy boxes. They have soooo many toys (many were hand me downs from friends and family) and I have learnt you CAN have tooo many toys! I have been watching the girls play over the last couple of weeks and have found they only play with specific toys over and over again! So why keep so many??? Instead I am planning on selling what I can and putting the money into the girls Savings Accounts and whatever doesnt sell I will donate to the local Op Shop or Daycare Centre :) 

From doing these few things I hope the girls will start to play outdoors more, and enjoy the beautiful nature they have around them instead of being inside with 'things'.  Doing is much more pleasing! I like them outside doing kid things, like exploring and jumping and running and hiding. Isn't that much more fun than an item that gets boring after 5 minutes??

See Less IS More :)
Kirra :)