Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska

Note From Wanda

On our website, you’ll find valuable information and insight about simplifying your life, a goal many more people are considering – and adopting – during these lean times. Explore the website for resources and partners that can provide you with actionable tips and tools to help you reframe your thinking and get you started. Read Wanda’s Diary blog to see what steps she’s taking to streamline, go green, live on less and bring meaning to her life. Check out Wanda’s speaking appearances so you can meet in person when she’s in your area! And, finally, watch clips from the television series, SIMPLE LIVING WITH WANDA URBANSKA, currently airing its fourth successful season on public television stations nationwide (contact your local PBS station for local air times).

And let us hear from you! Please send us your ideas for simple living to wandaurbanska@simplelivingtv.net. Some of your ideas may be featured in Wanda’s future work.

Wanda's Diary

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I’m in the throes of moving not only my household to Raleigh, NC but that of my octogenarian Mother, who will live with my son and me in a granny cottage behind our house. Let me tell you, if ever there were a cautionary tale about the dangers of accumulation, it is the exercise of moving. Mama sees in every seasoned paperback, read 40 years ago, a part of her life and doesn’t want to let go. I see up close and personal the dangers of gathering in too many possessions and vow that in my new life in Raleigh I will not hold on, I’ll let go. I try to work with her on this perspective (with limited success), but also work on my son. Moving is about starting over, starting life anew — and that is part of its promise and the opportunity for rebirth.

In the midst of it all, I’m heading up to the Twin Cities on Thursday as a representative of Hanesbrands’ Barely There Collection (www.barelythere.org), where I’ll make two in-store appearances, giving away copies of my book, “The Heart of Simple Living.” This trip will give me the chance to talk women about the beauty of simplicity and its tie-in to the “Smart Sizes” Collection of the bras. (I’m wearing one now. They are incredibly comfortable and the comfort lasts all day.)

If my blog disappears for a week or two (I guess it already has), you’ll know where I am and what I’m doing. I’m sorting, dusting off, polishing, moving and rearranging (and making runs to the Goodwill). Next week, I’ll be settling into my new digs in a walkable, close-in section of Raleigh. Next week, my son will be learning his away around his new school.

Moving represents a new season in one’s life, a series of decisions. I’m privileged in mid-life to have this opportunity to start over.

Diary archive

Tip of the Day

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - Streamline and let go

This will help you not only “move” from one household to the next, but to “move” through life, lithe and unencumbered.

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Accolades for Wanda Urbanska & the Simple Living series:

“… the de facto Martha Stewart of the voluntary simplicity movement.”

- O, The Oprah Magazine

“… a spokeswoman for a phenomenon known as the simplicity movement…”

- The New York Times

“If you feel overwhelmed with stuff.., you need to read the book and watch the series.”

- Michelle Singletary,
The Washington Post

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