Hello, and welcome to my blog!

I believe that our lives can be happier by doing 3 things: stop wasting resources, spend more time doing what we love, and reconnect with Nature.

When I was little I used to spend a lot of time with my grandmother, living in a big house in the Italian countryside. She was the typical ‘nonna’, and from her I learned how to lead and cherish a simple life. Many of her teachings came from times of war, when food was scarce and life was harder, and she was used to make the most of what she had.

She was also a bit of a hoarder, and I think I got my love for old things and my passion for collecting them from her.

Growing up, I moved to the city and abroad for work, and after many years I landed my dream job, working in the television department that makes the best natural history documentaries in the world. I guess that way I managed to stay connected with Nature even while I was living in a tiny city apartment with no balcony or garden, and that was enough for me for some time. But as years passed, I realised I was longing for a different lifestyle, less wasteful and more intentional. I started reading and watching anything about minimalism, zero-waste and slow living, and I began to implement some of those principles in my daily routine.

Personally, this blog is my happy place – it’s where I chronicle my personal journey towards a different lifestyle, more sustainable for my wellbeing, wallet and the environment. I have tried and tested everything I write about, and I discuss the ups and downs of my adventures with the hope to inspire and help other people who are on a similar journey, By sharing what I’ve learnt so far I hope to create a respectful community of mindful consumers who aim to be more intentional in their daily choices while contributing to a circular economy.

Join the community!

Are you fed up with the materialistic and disposable culture we live in, and looking for ideas on how to have a fuller life living simply (saving some money in the process)?

Are you tired of going paycheck to paycheck, spending most of your life at work to buy things you don’t really need to impress people you don’t really care about?

Do you feel overwhelmed by society’s expectations, and are looking for inspiration on how to live your life in a more intentional way?

Are you worried about our impact on the environment and are looking for ways to reduce your footprint and live more sustainably?

If you answered “yes!” to at least one of the questions listed above, you came to the right place!

Make your life richer…living simply!

We live in a wonderful world, and when I say ‘wonderful’ I really mean it: technology advancements help us deal with our daily tasks, and the world wide web allows us to be connected and informed like never before. The market is always one step ahead, satisfying our needs before we even realise those needs exist.

But nowadays we are given so much choice that it’s easy to fall in a trap: we all feel pressured to aspire to ‘instagrammable’ relationships and to get into the ‘right’ career in an effort to conform with everybody else around us: we surround ourselves with ‘stuff’ with the promise that it will make us feel more fulfilled: we use social media to get validation from people who are trapped in the same vicious routine.

We are often more focused on what LOOKS good, instead of caring for what IS good for us.

But guess what: we don’t have to achieve the same goals which other people think are important to be successful: we don’t need ‘things’ to be happy; we can’t waste our time crafting a perfect existence in our social media bubble instead of going out there and trying to be good to us and our community one day after the other. If you start living life in your own terms, eliminating all the unnecessary noise from your mind and decluttering your personal space, you’ll feel free to make your own destiny, and no achievement will be impossible…and I’m talking from personal experience.

The world we live in is indeed wonderful, but we can make it work for us at its best only if we simplify our approach to life and connect to our inner selves to understand what we really want and need in life.

Follow me while I experiment ways of simplyfing my life in all its different aspects, and I try to be more intentional in the choices I make daily; from decluttering your living space, to having an overall healthier lifestyle, I hope this blog will help you to live simply, and to live more.

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