August 2026 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! It's back-to-school season, and even with no kids of my own, I always get some sort of itch this time of year that never quite goes away. An urge to buy fresh office and art supplies, a couple new pieces of clothing and a new pair of shoes. Something about September always just gets me excited about starting. Picked up some new paint markers for my hobby art 🎨 At this exact same time though, I've been doing another one of my closet purges and listing...
about 19 hours ago • 3 min read
July 2026 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! It's been a quiet July for me but I'm not going to dress it up as some grand intentional pause. Quiet has a way of making you notice things. This time it had me thinking about how thin the thread actually is. The thread we're all dangling from. The one holding everything together, day to day. Health, plans, routines, our arrogant assumption that tomorrow will be roughly like today. Most of the time we don't think about it at all. Then something reminds...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
June 2026 Minimal Monthly Shoutout to everyone who joined from Kit’s creator spotlight. If you're new here, this is Tidymalism's newsletter for fellow simple living and home organising aficionados who appreciate decluttered spaces, less stuff, and the occasional existential crisis in front of a still-overstuffed closet. 🤪 Hello, hello! Somehow, the first half of the year is over. I don’t know how that happened again. I was going to make a clever FIFA-adjacent halftime joke here, but the World...
2 months ago • 3 min read
April 2026 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! Spring got off to a very cold start this year but now it's time to finally switch out the daily gear in the entryway. While I was steaming the winter coats and jackets before putting them away properly, I had this weird thought: I don't want any of this anymore. Not the coats. Just everything. Everything that needs maintaining, insuring, weeding, cleaning, ironing, steaming, polishing, rotating. The whole darn house. As the years wear on, I'm growing...
4 months ago • 2 min read
March 2026 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! First off, someone wrote in last month to ask if I'm on Facebook or Instagram and I'm embarrassed to say I accidentally deleted that email before answering: no, I am not. Any maybe it's good I'm not, because that's two feeds less to deal with! Everything feels like a lot right now. Housing markets tanking, war war war, low-grade panic attacks every time I open the laptop and am confronted with the latest AI doomsday prophesies. Plus my entire condo...
5 months ago • 4 min read
February 2026 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! My reflection looked me in the eye while I was getting a haircut the other day, and I was startled by how much older I suddenly looked. When did that happen? Where did the time go? My days feel like Groundhog Day. Same routines, same screens, same tasks on repeat. The weeks blur together. It got me thinking about the Japanese concept of ichi-go ichi-e: 'one time, one meeting,' or the idea that every moment is unique and will never come again. But...
6 months ago • 2 min read