Today is the last day of our 2010 campaign with charity:water to raise $5000 to build a fresh water well for those in need. (Why water?) So far we’ve raised $150 — enough to give clean, fresh drinking water to 7 people for the next 20 years! That’s awesome! But I know that as a [...]

I just want to say a huge THANK YOU! to all the Live Simply peeps. Yesterday, I put out a quick tweet about a homeless veteran in need and late last night I received confirmation from our friend, Mark Horvath, that enough money had been donated to get Johnny’s RV out of the impound. I [...]

If you’ve stopped in your local Starbucks lately, you may (or may not have) seen a poster advertising the company’s stance on Fair Trade Coffee. Thanks to their size, Starbucks is the largest purchasers of Fair Trade Coffee in the world. According to their website: Starbucks began purchasing Fair Trade Certified coffee in 2000, helping [...]

As part of our effort to build a clean drinking water well for the under-resourced, I’ve decided to give away a free PDF copy of my novel, St. Peter’s Brewery, to everyone who makes a donation to charity:water between now and August 31, 2010. Give any donation — of any amount, and you’ll receive a [...]

Goodwill Industries has launched a new campaign geared towards encouraging people to rethink how they get rid of unwanted items. We’re all familiar with the recycling movement and its logo: To hopefully go right alongside with it, Goodwill has launched their new campaign with a new donation logo: I think it’s a great idea to [...]

Right now, nearly a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. To me — that’s ridiculous! And it falls right in line with our goal and purpose here at We Live Simply — Live simply so others may simply live. In the midst [...]

We have a tendency to remember to give thanks once or twice a year… usually on that special holiday for football and eating turkey, and perhaps on our birthdays or Christmas. But imagine if we carried that idea with us throughout the year? We’re seem to be hard wired to focus on all the things [...]

The second week of A Fool Month of Purging has come to an end. What have you purged? Here’s my list so far… Day 8 – 19 DVDs Day 9 – PC software Day 10 – 50+ CDs Day 11 – Dean Markley Acoustic Guitar Pickup Day 12 – 19″ TV Day 13 – Xbox [...]

The first week of A Fool Month of Purging has come to an end. What have you purged? Here’s my list so far… Day 1 – 2 Coffee Cups Day 2 – 4 Cup Coffee Pot Day 3 – King of the Hill DVDs Day 4 – DVD Player Day 5 – Small portable heater [...]

Thursday is April 1 — known everywhere as April Fool’s Day. And to kick off April we’re starting a Living Simply Challenge – A Fool Month of Purging. Based on Ross’ challenge from rcThink earlier this year, the goal will be to rid ourselves of the stuff we’ve been “fooled into thinking we need.” The [...]

“A poor man can see forward. A rich man becomes blind until he cannot see good and wrong.” A group of Compassion bloggers are wrapping up their travels through Kenya right now, journaling the great work Compassion International does with each sponsorship they receive for a child. Just $38 a month sponsors a child. What [...]