Cutting out the excess

Shawn and I are really excited to be joining together w/ my dear old Capernwray friends, Tom and Malora Mulhern over at CompactLife for a year of 'cutting out the excess'!! The Mulhern's started this journey in '08 by cutting out any unnecessary shopping. Read through the blog to get a better picture of the joys, creativity and challenges that came w/ it. They decided to try it again in 2011, but wanted to do it in community. I was wholeheartedly inspired two years ago as I read about their idea from conception to completion, so when Malora emailed me and asked if we wanted to be a part of it, I started to get overwhelmed w/ the savings and givings possibilities! Missionary friends that I want to bless, beautiful children I want to help find homes, outstanding student loans that hang over our heads like a dark cloud!! And unbeknownst to me, Shawn has been chatting online w/ Tom for a couple weeks getting just as excited as I was. This is key of course, it won't work if both of us aren't equally committed and invested.

My next post will include more specific areas of excess we want to work on, strategies and goals. And I promise it won't take me a month to blog again... a week tops.