Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska

Note From Wanda

On our website, you’ll find valuable information and insight about simplifying your life, a goal many more people are considering – and adopting – during these lean times. Explore the website for resources and partners that can provide you with actionable tips and tools to help you reframe your thinking and get you started. Read Wanda’s Diary blog to see what steps she’s taking to streamline, go green, live on less and bring meaning to her life. Check out Wanda’s speaking appearances so you can meet in person when she’s in your area! And, finally, watch clips from the television series, SIMPLE LIVING WITH WANDA URBANSKA, currently airing its fourth successful season on public television stations nationwide (contact your local PBS station for local air times).

And let us hear from you! Please send us your ideas for simple living to wandaurbanska@simplelivingtv.net. Some of your ideas may be featured in Wanda’s future work.

House Huggers Unite!

Wanda's Diary

Sunday, November 13, 2011

When I returned from my sabbatical in Poland in April of 2010, I decided it was time for a change in the way I was living. A single mother, I had an elderly mother who was always on my mind. When she wasn’t with me, I was worried about her. So I proposed a new living arrangement. We left Mount Airy and lucked up on a wonderful arrangement in a delightful older section of Raleigh, NC. Mama lives in a granny flat behind my house. We’re close but not on top of each other. She can be messy as she wishes without getting on my nerves. I can run a neat ship without worry about being too bossy.

The New York Times and Marketplace Money recently featured us in a feature on “multi-gen” housing. In case you missed them, check them out.

The main story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/your-money/three-generations-two-comfy-homes-a-few-steps-apart.html?_r=1&ref=businessspecial5

This isn’t the entire radio feature, but here are clips from it:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/09/your-money/20111109_Multi.html

Here’s the radio show:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/episodes/show_rundown.php?show_id=8

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Tip of the Day

Sunday, November 13, 2011

With the economy pressing down hard upon us, explore new living arrangements, as I have. Consider multi-generational housing, renting out rooms to others (or renting a place in someone else’s home to cut costs). These new configurations offer multiple and overlapping benefits and constitute an upside to the downturn. Give it a try!

Tips archive

Accolades for Wanda Urbanska & the Simple Living series:

“… the de facto Martha Stewart of the voluntary simplicity movement.”

- O, The Oprah Magazine

“… a spokeswoman for a phenomenon known as the simplicity movement…”

- The New York Times

“If you feel overwhelmed with stuff.., you need to read the book and watch the series.”

- Michelle Singletary,
The Washington Post

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