Raising Kids in a One-Bedroom Apartment (Living Well in Less Space) | Krystyne Jaspers (EP402)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What if small space living could actually give your family more—more connection, more creativity, and more clarity about what really matters? In this conversation, Khrystyne Jaspers shares her story of raising two kids with her husband in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment for over a decade. What started as a necessity turned into a lifestyle and eventually a business, as she now helps families rethink and reimagine the spaces they call home.
Khrystyne opens up about the lessons she’s learned from minimalist living, from managing toys and creating flexible living arrangements to letting go of the excess and embracing what truly brings joy. As both an educator and life coach, she also shares how mindset shifts play a key role in maintaining peace and simplicity—no matter the size of your home.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✨ How to maximize small spaces without sacrificing comfort
✨ Practical strategies for toy management and flexible living arrangements
✨ Why continuously reassessing “what’s necessary” helps keep clutter away
✨ The unexpected benefits of raising kids in a small apartment
✨ Mindset shifts that bring freedom and peace in your home
✨ Christine’s top resources for keeping family life simple and clutter-free
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Diane's Resource: Helpful Hints for Living Small with Laura Fenton (EP174) | The Downsides of Small Space Living with Laura Fenton (EP214)
- Previous Episode: No New Things with Ashley Piper
- Khrystyne's Resource: Essentialism by Gregory McKeown
- Khrystyne Can't Stop Talking About: Blueland Cleaning Supplies
- Connect with Khrystyne:
- Website
About Khrystyne|
Khrystyne is a mom of 2 who has spent her entire adult life in 1 bd apts. After moving to NYC, she quickly realized that upgrading meant living outside their means, and she began her journey to reimagining their family's 700 square foot apartment. She has been featured on Apartment Therapy multiple times and loves connecting with other small space families through her email list — Space Jams. In 2024, she launched her own lifestyle coaching and organization business where she helps families reimagine what is possible in their homes and coaches them on the mindsets and beliefs necessary to move forward with gratitude, beauty and abundance.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think I would necessarily call myself a minimalist because when I see minimalists on Instagram in the world, I see it as a very clean aesthetic, minimal things. |
| 0:11.2 | And when you have a small home, it doesn't really feel minimalist a lot. |
| 0:17.4 | Being open to possibility where maybe you are used to seeing impossibility is huge, |
| 0:23.6 | and it allows you to see things differently in ways that maybe you hadn't before. I think small |
| 0:29.0 | spaces get this bad wrap of being difficult or less than, but when you are able to use it in the right way, I think it can be such an |
| 0:39.3 | abundant experience that you had no idea it could be. It's freeing to know that everything I own |
| 0:45.4 | is here. There's nothing else anywhere else. Just because no one else is doing it doesn't mean you're |
| 0:49.9 | wrong or that you can't do it. My favorite quote is just because it's hard doesn't mean it's |
| 0:54.9 | wrong. And I'm living in a small space is 100% hard. Hello and welcome to the minimalist |
| 1:01.7 | moms podcast. What if small space living could actually give your family more, more connection, |
| 1:07.5 | more creativity and more clarity about what really matters? In today's conversation, Christine Jasper shares her story of raising two kids with her husband |
| 1:15.6 | in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment for over a decade. |
| 1:19.3 | What started as a necessity turned into a lifestyle and eventually a business, |
| 1:23.4 | as she now helps families rethink and reimagine the spaces they call home. |
| 1:27.4 | Today, Christine opens up about the lessons she's learned from minimalist living, |
| 1:30.9 | from managing toys and creating flexible living arrangements to letting go of the excess |
| 1:34.9 | and embracing what truly brings joy. |
| 1:37.5 | As both an educator and life coach, she also shares how mindset shifts play a role |
| 1:41.4 | in maintaining peace and simplicity no matter the size of your home. |
| 1:44.7 | But before we get there, I quickly want to share a couple of minimalist resources with all of you |
| 1:47.9 | this week. These are two previous episodes of the show with my guest, Laura Fenton, one of which |
| 1:53.1 | is episode 174, helpful hints for living small, and 214, The Downsides of Small Space Living. |
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