I just discovered a blog that I love BohemainBeachJunque, whose tagline is "A menopausal mermaid and a salty dawg on a journey to beach side living with less stuff more style!"  With a witty title and a tagline like that what was there not to love?

This is how I discovered BohemianBeachJunque.  I was about to reply to a comment in Katlupe's discussion If You Had To Start Over Today, What Would You Do? when I came across this reply:

Reply by Catherine
author of BohemianBeachJunque 5/4/2012 10:42:09 AM
"Interesting that I found this thread today.  This is the beginning of the do-over.  Hubby and I sold most of our junk and put our house on the market. We wandered down to the nearest coastal town and are living part time in a beach cottage on wheels.

Last night was the first night I spent here and it was wonderful to not be surrounded by stuff staring at me.

I work full time and drive a lot.  Crystal Beach is right in the middle of my district, so this was a logical choice for us.

I am, of course, blogging about the transition at www.bohemianbeachjunque.blogspot.com"

Curiosity made me click on Catherine's blog.  I did not recognize Catherine's name, she had no profile picture, so I figured that she was relatively new to BlogFrog and The Redhead Riter Community.  (Not that I know all 9,561 members of The Redhead Riter's Community -- but being an active member here in the community I can claim to know 9,560 of The Redhead Riter's Community members -- so I figured Catherine must have been the one member I missed getting to know!)

So I clicked on Catherine's blog BohemianBeachJunque and read her post dated Friday, May 4, 2012, called "Finally The Beginning."  Here are the first two lines of that post -- "I just finished my first official beach dinner.  A roasted chicken, grapes and half an avocado."  After reading those two lines, I knew that I had found a woman after my heart!

I continued reading each prior post, (totally enjoying each one of them), until I reached the post dated Thursday, March 29, 2011, The Countdown Has Begun.  Here is an excerpt from that post:

"In seven days most of our worldly possessions will be on sale in a front yard in the west end of Beaumont, Texas.  The house seems almost cavernous at this point.  The entire formal living room is empty.  Wow.

There will need to be a second purge once the house sells but for now we have reduced our material mania by 2/3rds.  The Victorians used to call shopping and their lifestyle Conspicuous Consumption.  The purchasing of endless bric a brac to put next to the endless bric a brac they already have.

All for the sake of having it and showing it off.  This thought process is alive and well today if one was to believe the endless magazines in stores that proclaim shabby, romantic or vintage on the covers.

I am heavy duty into research about living a life with less.  Living in 400 square feet or less requires a certain mindset most folks don't have.  The trick here is to not begin regathering once the stuff is gone.  I still love going into Pier One, Kirklands, Home Goods, flea markets and antique shops.  I am getting used to walking out with the just "the experience."  It is a feeling I am getting high on more and more.

With that said I have decided to continue collecting a few things:"

If you want to find out what Catherine has decided to collect read The Countdown Has Begun -- and then continue reading her other posts!  BohemianBeachJunque is a very well written blog that moved me as well as made me laugh, because there was so much I could identify with about simplifying one's life.

Here is my question:  Have you ever thought about simplifying your life?  Inquiring minds want to know!