This is Simple. I'm Tish Oxen Rider.

Hey friends, in this episode I'm chatting again with my friend Crystal Ellesen

who back in episode 177 shared with us a snapshot of her day as a work from home mom with a newborn.

Well she's back again this time to talk about her good list which she wrote earlier this week on the

blog. We get into Marie Condo, a new book I'm excited to read from a friend of mine,

and something she's been doing weekly with her husband.

Kyle and I started doing this right after I talked with Crystal. It is really such a good idea.

And no, get your mind out of the bedroom. That's not what I'm talking about.

And then I springboard a little from this week's post to mine where I got a bit vulnerable, talking

about my love hate relationship

with social media a thing called Dunbar's number how Seth Godin's thoughts on Iceland

have been really encouraging to me and a little concept that's been around since the fifth century

that is currently rocking my world. Basically in this chat I'm talking about the beauty

of good old partial solutions and then at the end Stephanie Langford and I tackle another one of your travel questions.

So let's get right into it. First up, here's Crystal and me talking about her good list.

Okay, Crystal, this week you shared with us your good list, so why don't you expand on that a little bit?

Sure, so the first one, the thing, is just my Kindle, which I mean I realize isn't anything super

fantastic except that my husband and I are actually doing three months of no-buy.

That's what we're calling it's not very official and just the

goal just being to not accumulate while also kind of slowly working on some

decluttering and I realized I have so many e-books that I've bought, you know, a dollar 99 on sale that I haven't read.

And I don't, like, you know, when there's books on your shelf that you haven't read it's some it's in your face a little bit more

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