How to Say No to Holiday Gifts

I am often asked how we manage gifts in our small space. Well, I highly recommend having a blog about small living with kids so that everyone in your life knows not to get you more stuff! Kidding! We were dealing with this issue long before I started writing about this publicly. It comes down to

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The Edited Baby Registry

I always hesitate to claim that anything is minimalist, as I believe minimalism is so personal, but we live in a world where you are bombarded with baby products that you "need" and I believe that lack of space for baby gear is one of the main reasons people leave their small spaces. So instead of claiming this is a "minimalist" list of baby items, let's call it "edited".

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Small Home Tour: Melissa, Jonny, Jake and a Studio in under 600sqft!

Melissa and Jonny among many things created and run a natural hot sauce company (with impeccable branding) Jonny Hetherington Essentials. We have been polite neighbours for years, just a quick hello in the halls or the street but in the last couple of years our kids have fallen in love with each other so we find ourselves at each other's small homes quite often.

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