Ever since I became a minimalist at 18 years old, I vowed to stick to a one-in-one-out rule to keep my shopping habits in check. The one-in-one-out rule required me to discard an item in my closet equivalent to whatever new thing I was trying...
Category: Lifestyle
Can Your Lifestyle Ever Be Completely Sustainable?
posted by: aaliyahinspired
June 13, 2024
Oftentimes, I feel like a fraud in the sustainability community. Sustainability has grown in mainstream culture over the past few years, often being accompanied with images of Hydroflasks, cream colored mesh bags, and metal straws. Personally, metal straws were my entry way to the world...
Life is a Dance: How Slow Living is Essential to Reclaiming What’s Yours
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 24, 2024
How come we’ve allowed ourselves to rush through our lives? We’re all privy to the fact that we only have one, yet we still somehow managed to convince ourselves that it should be hurried through. Maybe we have culture to blame — hustle culture specifically....
Vegan Skincare Products I Use After Quitting Makeup: The Ordinary Review
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 10, 2024
Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post by The Ordinary. It’s been five years since I stopped wearing makeup. Naturally, once you stop focusing on covering up your imperfections or enhancing certain features, you have more time to focus on what’s been underneath the layers...
5 Minimalist Principles to Help You Sustain a Life of Simplicity
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 27, 2024
Minimalism has been a lifestyle adopted by many people for various reasons, one of which being its philosophy of simplicity. Minimalism doesn’t solely speak to aesthetics or represent a vow of aestheticism. Instead, it serves as a tool that can help you take stock of...
Slow Travel: A Wanderlust’s Ticket to Sustainable and Immersive Traveling
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 18, 2024
Whenever many of us think about vacations, long jam-packed itineraries usually come to mind. Every single day of the vacation is planned to the minute — what time to wake up, what time to get breakfast, what time to sight-see this attraction, what time to...
4 Easy Slow Morning Practices for a Peaceful Day
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 18, 2023
How you start the morning sets the tone for the rest of your day. Do you ever notice the difference between a slow, Sunday morning and a hurried, Monday morning? Usually one is nourishing, allowing you to ease into the day while the other is...
How to Simplify Your Life And Make Room for What Matters
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 3, 2023
Living simply looks different from person to person. What may be too much for me may be just enough for you; what may be enough for me may be insufficient to you. This is actually the beauty of simple living — it’s flexible and can...
6 Easy & Simple Sustainable Practices to Start Today
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 22, 2023
Conversations about sustainability are often coupled with the latest products or items that you can purchase to be more “eco-friendly.” Things like Hydro-flasks, aesthetically-pleasing bamboo sets of toothbrushes or dish scrubbers, or nice cutlery sets come to mind. Although these things are a step in...
Minimalism 101: You Don’t Really Need As Much As You Think
posted by: aaliyahinspired
January 25, 2023
About a month ago, I was at a restaurant with some friends in the bustling streets of London. While we were waiting for our food to arrive, my friend Loletta and I engaged in a discussion about owning less and living simply. If you know...